Ramakrishnan, Girija

Primary Appointment

Associate Professor, Medicine- Infectious Diseases and International Health

Education

MSc, Life Sciences, CCMB, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Indi
PhD, Molecular Biology, State University of New York at Stony Brook

Contact Information

PO Box 801340
345 Crispell Drive, MR-6, Room 1713
Charlottesville, VA 22908
Telephone: 434-243-7243
Fax: 434-924-0075
Email: gr6q@virginia.edu

Research Disciplines

Biochemistry, Infectious Diseases/Biodefense, Microbiology, Molecular Biology

Research Interests

Microbial Pathogenesis

Research Description

I am broadly interested in bacterial pathogenesis and host responses to infection. My research seeks to characterize mechanisms of innate and adaptive immunity to Clostridioides difficile infection as well as therapeutic mechanisms underlying fecal microbial transplantation (FMT).
Girija Ramakrishnan is an affiliated faculty member of the Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases program.