Susan is an evolutionary parasitologist who studies the taxonomy, systematics, population genetics, molecular evolution, genomics and biogeography of malaria parasites and their relatives. Her lab group also works on diverse parasites such as canine heartworm, pinworms, ticks, and trypanosomes. Susan is an adjunct faculty member at CUNY and the NYU School of Medicine and is the associate editor for protozoan systematics for the Journal of Parasitology. Susan received her Ph.D. in 2000 from the University of Vermont, had a postdoctoral fellowship at the AMNH from 2000-2001 and then was an assistant professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Colorado from 2001 until 2004, at which point she returned to the AMNH to become a curator of microbial systematics and genomics.

 

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