Kathryn Kauffman
Department of Oral Biology
School of Dental Medicine
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY, USA
kmkauffm@buffalo.edu
Bio – I joined the Department of Oral Biology in the School of Dental Medicine here at UB in March 2020, and am a member of the first faculty cohort of the SUNY PRODiG Program and a Chancellor’s Early Career Scholar in the SUNY Empire Innovation Program. I completed my PhD in Biological Oceanography through the MIT–WHOI Joint Program working in the group of Martin Polz, with whom I stayed on for my postdoctoral training. While at MIT I led the development of the Nahant Collection Time Series, working with many wonderful colleagues, including Libusha Kelly’s group at Einstein College of Medicine. Though most of my doctoral and postdoctoral work focused on virus(phage)-host(bacteria) interactions in marine microbial communities, through collaborations with members of Eric Alm’s group and the Underworlds Project, I also worked on understanding phages associated with the human microbiome in the contexts of sewage and the gut.
Here at UB – my vision is to bring together a group of people who share an interest in working to understand the roles that viruses (phages) play in shaping the ecology and evolution of microbial communities – and what that means for emergent community function across environments – from the ocean to the human microbiome.
Lab: 616 Biomedical Research Building [South Campus] map
Office: 617 Biomedical Research Building [South Campus] map
Post: 135 Foster Hall, 3435 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14215 map