Microbiologist to join Rockefeller faculty

Friday, June 18, 2010 - 09:10 in Biology & Nature

Rockefeller’s newest faculty member is Luciano Marraffini, a microbiologist who studies how bacterial pathogens modulate the transfer of foreign DNA into their genomes. His work sheds light on how bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus evolve, including how they gain the ability to resist antibiotic drugs.

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