Julie A. Theriot (born 1967) is a

microbiologist A microbiologist (from Greek ) is a scientist who studies microscopic life forms and processes. This includes study of the growth, interactions and characteristics of microscopic organisms such as bacteria, algae, fungi, and some types of par ...

, professor at the

Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford University School of Medicine is the medical school of Stanford University and is located in Stanford, California. It traces its roots to the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific, founded in San Francisco in 1858. This ...

, and heads the Theriot Lab. She was a Predoctoral Fellow and Investigator at the

Howard Hughes Medical Institute The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is an American non-profit medical research organization based in Chevy Chase, Maryland. It was founded in 1953 by Howard Hughes, an American business magnate, investor, record-setting pilot, engineer, f ...

. She was a fellow at the

Whitehead Institute Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research is a non-profit research institute located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States that is dedicated to improving human health through basic biomedical research. It was founded as a fiscally indepen ...

for Biomedical Research. She graduated from the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern t ...

with a B.S. in Biology and Physics in 1988, and from the

University of California, San Francisco The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California. It is part of the University of California system and is dedicated entirely to health science and life science. It co ...

, with a Ph.D. in Cell Biology in 1993. Her work has investigated bacterial infections, such as '' Shigella'', and '' Listeria''.

Awards

* 2004

MacArthur Fellows Program The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the MacArthur Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to ...

* 2019

Keith R. Porter Lecture This lecture, named in memory of Keith R. Porter, is presented to an eminent cell biologist each year at the ASCB Annual Meeting. The ASCB Program Committee and the ASCB President recommend the Porter Lecturer to the Porter Endowment each year ...

* 2021 Member of the U. S.

National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nat ...

Works

*"Mechanism for cell shapeliness decoded from fish scales", ''Nature'' 453, xi (22 May 2008) *''Physical biology of the cell'', Authors Rob Phillips, Janè Kondev, Julie Theriot, Garland Science, 2008,
"Bacterial Manipulation of the Host Cell Cytoskeleton"
''Cellular microbiology'', Editor Pascale Cossart, ASM Press, 2005,
"Movement of Bacterial Pathogens Driven by Actin Polymerization"
''Motion analysis of living cells'', Editors David R. Soll, Deborah Wessels, Wiley-IEEE, 1998,

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Theriot, Julie American microbiologists 1968 births MIT Department of Physics alumni University of California, San Francisco alumni Howard Hughes Medical Investigators MacArthur Fellows Living people Stanford University School of Medicine faculty Women microbiologists Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences