Jean Celli, PhD
Professor
Cell biology of bacteria-phagocyte interactions
jean.celli@med.uvm.edu
304 Stafford Hall
95 Carrigan Drive
Burlington, VT 05405
United States
Affiliated Department(s)
Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
BIO
- Received his Ph.D. in Microbiology, Université Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris 6, France (1997), studying genetic mobile elements that transfer antibiotic resistance among pathogenic bacteria.
- Trained as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (1998-2001), focusing on how the food-borne pathogen Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) disarms immune phagocytes.
- Held an INSERM CR2 Research Scientist position (2001-2004) at the Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, France, where his research focused on characterizing the intracellular cycle of the Brucellosis-causing bacterium Brucella abortus.
- Held an NIH Investigator position at the NIH Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID from 2004 to 2013, where he further developed cellular and molecular studies of bacterial pathogen interactions with phagocytes.
- Became faculty at the Paul G. Allen School for Global Health at Washington State University as Associate Professor then Professor between 2013 and 2022 to continue research on the cell biology of zoonotic bacterial infections.
- Joined UVM Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics in 2023 as Professor.
Courses
MMG 6110 - Advanced Bacterial Genetics
Publications
Area(s) of expertise
- Cell biology of bacterial infections
- Bacterial pathogenesis
- Bacterial Type IV secretion systems and effectors
Bio
- Received his Ph.D. in Microbiology, Université Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris 6, France (1997), studying genetic mobile elements that transfer antibiotic resistance among pathogenic bacteria.
- Trained as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (1998-2001), focusing on how the food-borne pathogen Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) disarms immune phagocytes.
- Held an INSERM CR2 Research Scientist position (2001-2004) at the Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, France, where his research focused on characterizing the intracellular cycle of the Brucellosis-causing bacterium Brucella abortus.
- Held an NIH Investigator position at the NIH Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID from 2004 to 2013, where he further developed cellular and molecular studies of bacterial pathogen interactions with phagocytes.
- Became faculty at the Paul G. Allen School for Global Health at Washington State University as Associate Professor then Professor between 2013 and 2022 to continue research on the cell biology of zoonotic bacterial infections.
- Joined UVM Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics in 2023 as Professor.
Courses
MMG 6110 - Advanced Bacterial Genetics
Publications
Areas of Expertise
- Cell biology of bacterial infections
- Bacterial pathogenesis
- Bacterial Type IV secretion systems and effectors
Confocal microscope image of a Brucella abortus-infected HeLa cell showing extensive intracellular bacterial replication (bacteria appear in red) and formation of egress vacuoles (green vesicles).”