Assistant Professor, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, U.S.
Dr. Peters had obtained his B.S. in Microbiology in 2005 from Pennsylvania State University and his Ph.D. in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology in 2010 from the University of Maryland, under the supervision of Dr. Mark Shirtliff. His postDoc in Fungal pathogenesis from Louisiana State Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. The Peters lab has two main foci of research: 1) the host and fungal molecular mechanisms responsible for the immunopathogenesis of vulvovaginal candidiasis and 2) quorum sensing and toxin regulation during fungal-bacterial intra-abdominal infection. Dr. Peters had been invited as a keynote speaker in ChinaBiofilms 2017 in Guangzhou China.