Bio
Dr. Hsiao received dual Bachelor’s degrees in Biology and History, and a Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Pennsylvania.
Research in the Hsiao laboratory focuses on identifying the mechanisms by which the gut microbiota can confer susceptibility or resistance to enteropathogenic bacteria. Recent work has identified that interspecies bacterial communication, a process known as quorum sensing, is employed by the gut microbiota to inhibit virulence gene production by the important human diarrheal pathogen Vibrio cholerae.