Karla Satchell


Karla Satchell is an American microbiologist who is currently a professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She serves as an acting fill-in anchor for WGN-TV in Chicago, Illinois.

Education

She earned her Ph.D at University of Washington in 1996 and conducted postdoctoral training with John Mekalanos at Harvard Medical School.

Research

Her interests are bacteriology, structural biology, and immunology, cytoskeleton, cellular microbiology, bacteria and diseases and pathogenesis. She is especially known for defining how the MARTX toxin in Vibrio cholerae is a modular protein that delivers its constituent effectors to host cells.

Immunology

Satchell is head of the Center for Structural Genomics of Infectious Diseases at Northwestern. The Center, established in 2007, provides an established consortium of laboratories in North America for rapid response research related to infectious disease outbreaks. It maps and examines the genomes of disease causing agents such as viruses to establish effective treatments.

Publications