Prof. Margaret McFall-Ngai University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Margaret McFall-Ngai is Professor Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her BS in biology from the University of San Francisco, her PhD from UCLA and was a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA and the University of California, San Diego. Her research focuses on the symbiotic associations... read morebetween animals and prokaryotes, including signaling between partners during establishment and maintenance of a symbiosis, the influence of bacteria on animal development and the evolution of animal-bacterial interactions.