Officers

President: Toni Darville, M.D. 

Dr. Toni Darville currently serves as UNC Children's vice chair of research and chief of pediatric infectious diseases. Dr. Darville is a physician and researcher with extensive knowledge in infectious diseases and a recognized authority on chlamydia.

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President-elect: Joanne Engel, M.D, Ph.D.

Dr. Joanne Engel currently serves as chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and professor of medicine in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at U.C. San Francisco.
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Secretary Treasurer: Tony Maurelli, Ph.D.

Dr. Tony Maurelli, recently joined the University of Florida in Jan 2016, from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, Maryland where he was Professor of Microbiology and Immunology. His research interests are molecular genetics and pathogenesis in the facultative intracellular pathogen Shigella and in the obligate intracellular pathogen, Chlamydia.

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Councilors 

Isabelle Derré, Ph.D.​
Assistant Professor
Department Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 
​id8m@virginia.edu 
Matthias Horn, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Microbial Ecology and Ecosystem Science
University ​of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
horn@microbial-ecology.net​
Catherine O'Connell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor 
Department of Pediatrics
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
horn@microbial-ecology.net