Julie Theriot

Julie Theriot
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Born	1967
Nationality	American
Fields	microbiology
Institutions	Stanford University School of Medicine
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, San Francisco
Notable awards	MacArthur Fellows Program

Julie A. Theriot (born 1967) is a microbiologist, professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and heads the Theriot Lab. She was a Predoctoral Fellow, and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She was a fellow at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.

She graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Biology and Physics in 1988, and from the University of California, San Francisco, with a Ph.D. in Cell Biology in 1993. Her work has investigated bacterial infections, such as Shigella, and Listeria.

Awards

• 2004 MacArthur Fellows Program

Works

• "Mechanism for cell shapeliness decoded from fish scales", Nature 453, xi (22 May 2008)

• Physical biology of the cell, Authors Rob Phillips, Janè Kondev, Julie Theriot, Garland Science, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8153-4163-5
• "Bacterial Manipulation of the Host Cell Cytoskeleton", Cellular microbiology, Editor Pascale Cossart, ASM Press, 2005, ISBN 978-1-55581-302-4
• "Movement of Bacterial Pathogens Driven by Actin Polymerization", Motion analysis of living cells, Editors David R. Soll, Deborah Wessels, Wiley-IEEE, 1998, ISBN 978-0-471-15915-5