Emilee Shine, B.S. Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh; Ph.D. Microbiology, Yale University

Emilee Shine received her B.S. in Microbiology from the University of Pittsburgh in 2014.  During her undergraduate studies as an HHMI Academic Research Fellow, she worked in the laboratory of Dr. Graham Hatfull, where she studied the mechanisms of integrase mediated site-specific recombination and genetics of mycobacteriophages.  She was also a summer student with Dr. William Jacobs Jr, where she applied phage-mediated engineering strategies to generate strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis deficient in siderophore synthesis.  Her work in the Crawford Lab involves metabolomics and genetics approaches to study the functions and consequences of bacterial small molecules in the human microbiome.