Officers

President: 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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President-elect: Raphael Valdivia

Dr. Raphael Valdivia is the founding Director of the Duke Center for the Genomics of Microbial System (GeMS) and Vice Dean for Basic Sciences at the School of Medicine. In his current work, Dr. Valdivia focuses on the mechanisms used by the widely disseminated intracellular pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis to cause sexually transmitted infections.  

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Secretary Treasurer: Isabelle Derre

Dr. Isabelle Derré, an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia, focuses on the interaction between the Chlamydia inclusion and the endoplasmic reticulum. Dr. Derré's Lab approach combines cell biology, molecular biology, microbiology and confocal microscopy techniques together with the newly developed genetic tools for Chlamydia

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Councilors 

Toni Darville, MD.​
Professor
Department Microbiology and Immunology
UNC School of Medicine 
Chapel Hill, NC
​lisa.rucks@unmc.edu
Elizabeth (Lisa) Rucks, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of  Pathology and Microbiology 
University ​of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE
lisa.rucks@unmc.edu
Christine Suetterlin, Ph.D
Assistant Professor & Graduate Advisor
Department of Developmental and Cell Biology
University of California Irvine
Irvine, CA
suetterc@uci.edu
Derek Fisher, Ph.D.​
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL
fisher@micro.siu.edu