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Karen M. Ottemann
  • Pronouns she, her, her, hers, herself
  • Title
    • Professor and Chair
  • Division Physical & Biological Sciences Division
  • Department
    • Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology Department
  • Phone
    831-459-3482 (Office), 831-459-4780 (Lab)
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Biomedical Sciences, 238
  • Mail Stop METX
  • Mailing Address
    • 1156 High Street, METX
    • Santa Cruz CA 95064
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Microbiology, Disease and Immunity, Human Biology
  • Courses METX119L, METX200, METX245A
  • Advisees, Grad Students, Researchers Xiaolin Liu, , , , Raymondo Lopez-Magana, Yasmine Osama Elshenawi, Angela Evet Lane, Sydney Smyer

Summary of Expertise

Helicobacter pylori

Bacterial infection

Bacterial chemotaxis

Biography, Education and Training

My research uses molecular biology approaches to understand how the ulcer-causing bacterium Helicobacter pylori survives in the hostile mammalian stomach and causes disease.

• B.S, University of California, Davis (Bacteriology)
• Ph.D. in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard University (with John Mekalanos)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley in Biochemistry (with Daniel E. Koshland, Jr.)

Teaching Interests

Bacteriology
Molecular microbiology