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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 remember when I first saw my lab space, and that feeling of excitement and dread simultaneously.
I remember helping with this and learning about the body while doing so, the tendons and bones, internal organs, etc
I was teaching three courses, one of which I had to develop for 140 students.
I was an undergraduate, I was looking for a job on campus and saw an advertisement for an undergraduate assistant in the lab.
Living in the Ivory Coast, we killed our own chickens, and we had to separate the different organs, essentially dissecting the chicken.
I was quite lucky because when I was a postdoc.
This was until I came to the US for college, and I took several microbiology classes.
It all started with a plant; when I was in the last year of middle school.
That was my journey into my interest in science.
Feeling helpless wasn’t too fun.
t that time, I thought, okay, medicine is something that I could do to help people.
I had a biology professor who helped us create a herbarium, and there was this common flower in the Ivory Coast that we passed all the time.
I was doing some teaching and working in the lab, back and forth between the two, so I already had experience in balancing research with teaching.
The impact of the pandemic on faculty workload, especially faculty with children, was not explicitly addressed by Cal State, and the amount of extra work faculty did was not fully appreciated.
I am collaborating with Professor Scott Roy at San Francisco State, an evolutionary biologist, who is interested in alternative splicing, and he is trying to find unique splicing features of Toxoplasma.
As an immigrant and a Black woman in science, I understand the challenges that students and faculty from historically excluded and underprivileged communities encounter at institutions of higher education.
Our lab aims to uncover novel differentiation and virulence determinants, especially in the gastrointestinal tract, and understand the molecular regulation of gene expression during developmental differentiation.
At the time, my dad wanted me to be a medical doctor, but Dr Eichenbaum jokingly said that I would waste my brain in medical school and that she would make me a scientist
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