Jennifer Roxas

Jennifer Roxas completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Philippines, and her doctoral degree from the University of Arizona. For her doctoral research, she used proteomics to globally characterize the host cell changes induced by infection with the bacterial pathogen enteropathogenic Escherichia coli. She then dissected the mechanistic basis by which the pathogen alters key aspects of host cell physiology to cause disease. In her post-doctoral research work in the Vedantam laboratory, she continues to use genomics, proteomics and advanced microscopy techniques to understand how enteric pathogens like Clostridioides difficile and Cryptosporidium parvum cause disease humans and animals. When not in the laboratory, Jenny develops new recipes and protocols in her kitchen, often with produce that she grows in her own garden.