Teresa O’Meara started her lab at the University of Michigan in August, 2019, and her lab is focused on
understanding the biology of the human fungal pathogens Candida auris, Candida albicans, and Cryptococcus
neoformans. Teresa went to the University of Chicago for her undergraduate degree, and did her PhD work
with Andrew Alspaugh at Duke University in the University Program in Genetics and Genomics on
transcriptional regulation of virulence factors in Cryptococcus neoformans. Teresa then moved to Toronto and
did the majority of her postdoctoral work with Leah Cowen at the University of Toronto, where she used
functional genomic and proteomic approaches to understand Candida albicans. Teresa also did a year visiting
postdoctoral position with Suzanne Noble at UCSF, where she learned additional animal models of disease.
