This event is part of the department’s seminar series for graduate students.

“Urgent threat Neisseria gonorrhoeae utilizes human specific receptors to overcome nutritional immunity”

Dr. Cynthia Nau Cornelissen is a Distinguished University Professor at Georgia State University. At GSU, she serves as the Director of the Center for Translational Immunology and as the Associate Director of the Institute for Biomedical Sciences. Dr. Cornelissen earned her PhD from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and then completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. You can read more about her research on N. gonorrhoeae here: https://biomedical.gsu.edu/profile/cynthia-nau-cornelissen/.