Jeffrey L. Bose

Jeff Bose is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He received his PhD from the University of Georgia studying symbiotic host-microbe interactions. He transitioned to his work on the human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Nebraska Medical Center studying biofilms. His current work, primarily on MRSA isolates, started as a screen for novel regulatory factors controlling MRSA virulence factor production. His lab focuses on fatty acid metabolism in virulence as a potential host recognition signal. These studies are uncovering a previously uncharacterized enzyme in many bacteria and are dissecting the molecular mechanism linking fatty acid metabolism and skin infections.