Affiliation: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Senior Research Associate

Andrea Paun received her PhD in Microbiology from the University of Western Australia in 2005. She completed her postdoctoral training with Dr. Paula Pitha-Rowe at Johns Hopkins University and then Dr. Ulrich Siebenlist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health, examining the role of transcription factors in the immune response to pathogens and the development of immune cells. Her current position is also at NIAID as a Senior Research Associate with a joint post with Intracellular Parasite Biology and the Molecular Parasitology Sections of the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases with Dr. David Sacks and Dr. Michael Grigg, where she is focused primarily on Leishmania and the host-pathogen-vector interactions in this disease, as well as genetic studies of Leishmania, isolates from clinical specimens.