Tiara Perez Morales

My desire to learn about how microorganisms communicate goes back to my undergraduate research days. I have always been fascinated at how bacteria can sense and react to their environment. In our lab, we want to understand how specific cell-cell communication systems are used to benefit host-microbe interactions in our gastrointestinal tract.

Education:

BS in Industrial Microbiology, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez

PhD in Microbiology, University of Iowa

Postdoctoral studies, University of Illinois at Chicago

Lab news

Ciera Duffy, BS Biology (2020), has been a successful lab biologist at ITT Research Institute. She will start her PhD program through GEMS at UIC Chicago!

Ahsan Adil graduated with a BS in Health Science and is now in the medical program at Midwestern University.

Ahmed Mohiuddin graduated with a BS in Health Science and a minor in Chemistry (2022).

Anna (Thiel) McFadden graduated with a BS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2019).

Arinze Egbuna won first place at LSMRCE poster session for his research work titled "Twoo unique phages, one bacterial host: comparison of Arthrobacter phages BigAri and Tiari!

Natalie Figueroa, BS Biology (2021) , completed her Masters in Medical Sciences (2023) and will start medical school at PHSU!