Julie A. Theriot (born 1967) is a microbiologist, professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and heads the Theriot Lab. She was a Predoctoral Fellow and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. 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 land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

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 con ...

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

Shigella ''Shigella'' is a genus of bacteria that is Gram-negative, facultative anaerobic, non-spore-forming, nonmotile, rod-shaped, and genetically closely related to '' E. coli''. The genus is named after Kiyoshi Shiga, who first discovered it in 1 ...

'', and ''

Listeria ''Listeria'' is a genus of bacteria that acts as an intracellular parasite in mammals. Until 1992, 17 species were known, each containing two subspecies. By 2020, 21 species had been identified. The genus is named in honour of the British pio ...

''.

Awards

* 2004 MacArthur Fellows Program * 2019 Keith R. Porter Lecture * 2021 Member of the U. S. National Academy of Sciences.

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