Samantha Palace

Research Associate
Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology

Sam earned her PhD at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where her thesis work focused on host/pathogen interactions of the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis. She joined CCDD as a postdoc jointly mentored by Dr. Lipsitch and Dr. Grad. She is now a scientist in Dr. Grad’s lab, where she studies antimicrobial resistance and immune evasion of Neisseria gonorrhoeae.