Hualiang Pi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Hualiang earned her Ph.D. in Microbiology from Cornell University in the laboratory of Dr. John Helmann working on bacterial defense mechanisms against metal stress. During her postdoctoral training in the Skaar lab, Hualiang worked on microbial stress responses through two component signaling systems (TCSs) in Bacillus anthracis and also found that Clostridioides difficile produces membrane-bound iron phosphate ferrosome organelles to overcome host-mediated nutrient iron stress in the gut during infection. Hualiang is currently an assistant professor of Microbial Pathogenesis at Yale University.