PROFESSOR DR. KALAI MATHEE

PROFESSOR OF MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Dr. Kalai Mathee is a professor, researcher, and a founding faculty member at Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. Additionally, she is the first Florida International University (FIU) faculty member to be inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology in 2020. She has served as a mentor for over 140 individuals and published over 130 articles and book chapters in the fields of alginate gene regulation, antimicrobial resistance, gut, lung metagenome and microbiome, alternate therapeutics, forensic science, comparative genomics, and bioinformatics. Other accolades include being an internationally recognised speaker and serving as Joint Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Medical Microbiology.