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born 1955 Ivory Coast
Pascale Guiton is a microbiologist and assistant professor at Santa Clara University, where she focuses on both teaching and research. She specializes in parasitology, particularly the study of Toxoplasma gondii.
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I am excited to join the faculty at SCU and look forward to engaging with colleagues and students from all backgrounds in a supportive.
We are tackling this main question from several different angles.
It is learning to balance these responsibilities that is the biggest challenge, but it's what you need to do to be an effective teacher.
You can do a bit of biochemistry, immunology and even physics.
I enjoy that, and it's about reinforcing the students' skills and getting the data is almost a result of the students learning those things.
You can do whatever you want as you study microbes.
Opportunities for students to connect with science in a way that enriches their day-to-day lives and contributes to making them fully informed citizens.
I found the topic really interesting, how there is a whole other world of microbes that we don't see.
I never really paused and thought about the impact of mucus on that initial infection until I taught immunology.
I just think microbes rule the world; even when we become extinct, they'll still be around, and that is very humbling.
I always say if I had to do it all over again, I would be a marine microbiologist.
There are a lot of people who are sick in the Ivory Coast.
Tenure track faculty could get back into research labs and make up for work and time lost to the pandemic.
I gained my first proper lab experience, doing bacterial cultures and minipreps to isolate bacterial DNA.
We have become interested in understanding the interactions of Toxoplasma with mucus.
Being at an undergraduate institution, I don't see my science as ‘I need to get data.
By trying to identify novel virulence determinants that are required specifically for that first stage of infection.
I find teaching science and how to do it so rewarding that this is my primary focus.
I also want to mention one person, Dr Zehava Eichenbaum, who really pushed me and inspired me to become a microbiologist.
It's fascinating how we or rather I know so little about microorganisms in the oceans or their interactions with sea creatures.
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