Graduate Student, Quantitative & Systems Biology, School of Natural Sciences
Advisor: Prof. Clarissa Nobile
Nora M. Shamoon is a Ph.D. candidate and six-time NSF fellowship awardee investigating how the common fungal pathogen Candida albicans causes disease to inform novel prevention and treatment strategies, by employing CRISPR technology and in vivo infection modeling. She has seven years of interdisciplinary research experience spanning infectious disease, genetics, biochemistry, ethics, and STEM education. Nora has led STEM outreach initiatives that reached hundreds of K–12 students across California’s Central Valley and serves on the Institutional Review Board for Human-Subject Research Protections at UCM.
