Megan L. Stanifer

Megan Stanifer is an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology. She received her bachelors in Chemistry from Boston University and her PhD in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry from Brown University.

Megan has been interested in understanding virus-host interactions since her PhD where she studied the human polyomavirus JCV. She continued studying viruses through her first post-doctoral training at Harvard Medical School where she investigated the entry and fusion of VSV. During a second post-doc at the University of Heidelberg, Germany she began to focus more on enteric pathogens and how they are infecting primary human intestinal cells. During this second post-doc, she began to establish human mini-gut organoid cultures to have a deeper understanding of how the host combats virus infection.