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Jake Choby, PhD
Jake Choby, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Jake received his B.S. at Grove City College and performed research on two-component signalling in Bacillus anthracis with Devin Stauff, PhD.
Jake earned his PhD with Eric Skaar, MPH PhD at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, studying heme synthesis and acquisition in Staphylococcus aureus.
Seeking to enter the world of antibiotic resistance in Gram-negative pathogens, Jake performed postdoctoral research with David Weiss, PhD at Emory University School of Medicine. There, he studied the mechanistic basis for antibiotic heteroresistance to different antibiotics in Enterobacter cloacae complex clinical isolates.
Jake started his lab at UNC in June 2025
Emily Kennedy, Phd
Emily Kennedy, Phd
Research Associate
Emily received her B.S in Biochemistry at Louisiana State University. While a student there she did research on leptin signaling with Weihong Pan, MD, PhD and Abba Kastin, MD, PhD in the Blood Brain Barrier group at Pennington Biomedical Research Center.
Emily went on to earn her M.S. in chemistry and PhD in Biochemistry with Ann H. West, PhD at the University of Oklahoma, studying protein signaling, enzymology and crystallography using bacterial two-component systems.
Emily then joined the lab of Robert Bourret, PhD at the University of North Carolina as a postdoctoral researcher. She studied signaling in the mechanisms of protein signaling using evolutionary biology as a guide for experiment design.
Emily joined the lab as a Research Associate in July 2025 where she will study antibiotic heteroresistance.
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