#BlackInCompBio Seminar Series: Ariangela Kozik, PhD (University of Michigan)

Title: From Bash to Bench and Back Again: High-throughput Microbiology for Understanding the Respiratory Microbiome

Dr. Ariangela Kozik is a microbiologist and Assistant Professor in the Departments of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Michigan. Her laboratory leverages multi-omic strategies to interrogate host-microbe and microbe-microbe crosstalk in the human airway to better understand chronic respiratory disease. She is also passionate about transforming systems to sustain future generations of research scientists, and has worked on a number of initiatives to promote equity in STEM. Dr. Kozik is the Co-Founder and Vice President of the Black Microbiologists Association (Black In Microbiology), a Board Member of the think tank 2030 STEM,  serves on the Health Equity and Diversity Committee of the American Thoracic Society and is a member of the Microbes and Social Equity Working Group.