Craig Venter Institute working in the Infectious Disease group. Dr. Beyhan’s research focuses on microbe-host interactions. Prior to her appointment at JCVI, Dr. Beyhan was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was awarded American Lung Association Senior Research Training Fellowship, American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship and NIH-NIAID Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00). She received her PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz in Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, and her undergraduate degree from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.