Paula Watnick, M.D. Ph.D.
Boston Children’s Hospital
Paula Watnick, M.D. Ph.D., is a research scientist in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Boston Children’s Hospital and a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She studies intestinal pathogens and their interactions with the host intestine.
Watnick attended Princeton University where she majored in chemistry. After a Fulbright Fellowship studying the application of multi-dimensional NMR to protein structure in the laboratory of Kurt Wuthrich, Ph.D., in Zurich, Watnick moved to the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena where she received a Ph.D. in biophysical chemistry. She subsequently attended Yale Medical School and completed clinical training in internal medicine and infectious diseases and a postdoctoral fellowship in bacterial genetics at Harvard Medical School.
Watnick’s current research interests include metabolic control of Vibrio cholerae transcription via post-translational modifications of transcription factors, intestinal cell type-specific innate immune responses to microbial metabolites and V. cholerae exploitation of the arthropod intestinal innate immune response to maximize colonization. She is a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the American Academy of Microbiology. She is currently on the editorial board of Infection and Immunity.
Watnick attended Princeton University where she majored in chemistry. After a Fulbright Fellowship studying the application of multi-dimensional NMR to protein structure in the laboratory of Kurt Wuthrich, Ph.D., in Zurich, Watnick moved to the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena where she received a Ph.D. in biophysical chemistry. She subsequently attended Yale Medical School and completed clinical training in internal medicine and infectious diseases and a postdoctoral fellowship in bacterial genetics at Harvard Medical School.
Watnick’s current research interests include metabolic control of Vibrio cholerae transcription via post-translational modifications of transcription factors, intestinal cell type-specific innate immune responses to microbial metabolites and V. cholerae exploitation of the arthropod intestinal innate immune response to maximize colonization. She is a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the American Academy of Microbiology. She is currently on the editorial board of Infection and Immunity.