Elizabeth Heath-Heckman
Assistant Professor, Integrative Biology
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
Assistant Professor, BioMolecular Science Gateway
Location: 203 Natural Science Bldg
Email: each@msu.edu
Bio
I am a microbiologist and invertebrate biologist specializing in the mechanisms underlying host-microbe interactions. After studying Staphylococcus aureus pathogenesis as an undergraduate I spent my Ph.D. studying day/night cycles in the association between the Hawaiian Bobtail squid and Vibrio fischeri, its luminescent bacterial symbiont. My first postdoc at UC Berkeley involved studying neurodevelopment in the leeches Helobdella austinensis and Hirudo verbana and my second let me train in genomic techniques at UCLA. I started my lab at MSU in July of 2020 where we examine host-microbe interactions and development in the spiralia. ###Education B.A., 2007, University of Chicago Ph.D., 2014, University of Wisconsin - Madison Postdoctoral Fellow, 2014-2017, University of California - Berkeley Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018-2020, University of California - Los Angeles ###Links * [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=_o_K5igAAAAJ)
Courses
- IBIO 306: Invertebrate Biology
- IBIO 494: Independent Study
- IBIO 890: Special Problems
- MMG 499: Undergraduate Research
- MMG 801: Integrative Microbial Biology
- MMG 892: Seminar