Kirsten Nielsen, PhD

PhD, Botany and Plant Pathology, 2002
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC

BS, Biochemistry, 1996
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN

• Medical Mycology with an emphasis on the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans
• Genetic mechanisms that influence host-pathogen interactions and development of disease
• Morphological responses to environmental stresses

2024–present
Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology
Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA

2019–2024
Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN

2013–2019
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN

2007–2013
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN

2002–2007
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Duke University
Durham, NC

• Medical Mycology Society of America (MMSA)
• International Society for Human and Animal Mycoses (ISHAM)
• Genetics Society of America (GSA)
• American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• American Society for Microbiology (ASM)

• Kirsten Nielson's NCBI profile