Position/Organization: professor of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

Jo Handelsman, Ph.D. is professor of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Her work on organisms in the soil and in the guts of humans and even insects has led to findings that are proving important in human disease and in pest control. It’s a case, she says, of basic research once again surprising us with unexpected and important practical implications.

http://bbs.yale.edu/people/jo_handelsman.profile

jo.handelsman@yale.edu

203-432-9119