Susanne M. Rafelski
Susanne M. Rafelski
Graduate
-Ph.D. graduate student with Prof. Julie Theriot
Stanford University: Dept. of Biochemistry
Ph.D. dissertation title: Integrating bacterial polarity with host cytoskeletal dynamics: Initiation of Listeria monocytogenes actin-based motility
undergraduate
-University of Arizona: B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, with minor in Mathematics
-Undergraduate Research Assistant with Prof. David Galbraith
University of Arizona: Dept. of Plant Sciences
-Undergraduate research abroad with Dr. Jiri Macas
Czech Academy of Sciences: Inst. of Plant Molecular Biology
Assistant Professor
Developmental & Cell Biology
Center for Complex Biological Systems
UC Irvine
education and training
postdoctoral
-Postdoctoral scholar with Prof. Wallace Marshall
University of California, San Francisco: Dept. of Biochemistry & Biophysics Interdisciplinary research on mitochondrial morphology and function in S. cerevisiae combining computation, image processing, genetics, and cell biology.
-Postdoctoral scholar with Prof. Garry Odell and Dr. Jonathan Alberts
University of Washington: Center for Cell Dynamics
Training in computational biology, examining the effect of ActA polarity on the speed of Listeria monocytogenes actin-based motility.
Previously (2012-2016)