44th Annual Jim McGinnis Memorial Lecture: "Skin microbiome: spread and emergence of antimicrobial resistance"

The annual McGinnis Memorial Lecture was established by the staff and students of the Departments of Microbiology and Immunology in 1979 to honor the memory of James William McGinnis, Jr., a beloved Duke doctoral candidate working in Bill Joklik's laboratory who died unexpectedly in a canoeing accident. Julie Segre, PhD, is the Chief and Senior Investigator of the Translational and Functional Genomics Branch in the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health. She was also elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020, and the National Academy of Sciences in 2022. Dr. Segre has made significant contributions to the fields of genomics and microbiome sciences. Her laboratory utilizes high-throughput sequencing and develops algorithms to study the microbial diversity of human skin in both healthy and diseased states, with a focus on eczema and other microbial associated infections. She also published the first topographical maps of human skin bacterial and fungal diversity. In addition, her lab develops genomic tools to track hospital-acquired infections of multi-drug resistant organisms, including the NIH's recent Klebsiella pneumoniae outbreak.