David Engelthaler
Director
Programs & Operations
Translational Genomics Research Institute
United States of America
Biography
David received a Masters Degree in Microbiology from Colorado State University, where he studied host-vector-pathogen dynamics. Previously, he conducted his studies in epidemiology at the University of Arizona and received his undergraduate degree in biology from Northern Arizona University. David was a biologist for the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in Fort Collins, Colorado, where he conducted research on highly infectious diseases like plague and tularemia. From 2000 to 2005, David was also the Arizona Bioterrorism Coordinator, responsible for coordinating all state-wide activities regarding public health emergency preparedness and response, including response activities to suspect biothreat events, such as the suspicious powders that were seen following the anthrax letter attacks. He was also the state-wide coordinator for Pandemic Influenza and other public health emergency response activities.David Engelthaler is the Director of Programs and Operations for TGen North.
Research Interest
rapid antibiotic resistance detection, development of novel genotyping techniques for molecular epidemiology and microbial forensics; fungal phylogenetics.
Publications
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Cover Photograph (Rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis) infected with strain of Yersinia pestis that expresses GFP.) Proc. Nat. Acad.Sciences. 101(22) 2004
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Community analysis of chronic wound bacteria using a 16S rRNA gene-based pyrosequencing approach: impact of diabetes and antibiotics on chronic wound microbiota PLoS One ul 31;4(7):e6462 2009
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Next-generation sequencing of Coccidioides immitis isolated during cluster investigation Emerg Infect Dis, 17(2):227-32 2011
