Brenda Anne Wilson

Dr. Wilson is a Professor of Microbiology and Assoc. Director of Undergraduate Education in the School of Molecular & Cellular Biology, with a joint appointment in Pathobiology, College of Vet. Med., at UIUC. She is also an Inaugural Professor in the Carle Illinois College of Medicine. Her current research focuses on host-microbe interactions: bacterial protein toxins and their molecular interactions with eukaryotic hosts; developing novel post-exposure antitoxin therapeutics and delivery platforms; and drug resistant microbes in health and disease. Dr. Wilson earned her B.A. from Columbia University, NY, and her M.S.-Ph.D. degrees (in Chemistry: β-lactam antibiotics) from the Johns Hopkins University, MD. Her PostDoc at Harvard Medical School was on bacterial protein toxins.