Charlotte is a Ph.D. Candidate in Molecular and Cellular biology. She hails from Missoula, Montana where she received a B.S. in Biochemistry. After college, Charlotte spent two years at the NIH as a postbac in Jason Brenchley’s lab studying interactions between the microbiome and SIV. Charlotte's thesis research in the Vance Lab at UC Berkeley focuses on host-pathogen interactions using the enteric pathogen Shigella as a model system. In particular, she is interested in how proteins secreted by Shigella manipulate the host cell during infection and how the host counters this attack. Outside of lab, Charlotte enjoys the great outdoors and is an aficionado of partner acrobatics.