Kasie Raymann

Bio

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology and North Carolina State University (NCSU). I received my Ph.D. in Microbiology, with a focus on microbial evolution and genomics, from Pasteur Institute Paris. I completed my postdoctoral training at the University of Texas Austin where I studied host-associated microbial ecology. One of the major research topics of my laboratory focuses on opportunistic pathogen evolution. Specifically, we use experimental evolution to identify virulence mechanisms in two opportunistic bacterial pathogens, Serratia marcescens and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Both species are ubiquitous in the environment, can infect virtually all animals and plants, are responsible for causing many hospital-acquired infections, and are multidrug resistant.