Dr. Boo Shan Tseng is an Associate Professor and the Graduate Coordinator in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV). She received her BS from MIT in 2003 and her PhD from Rockefeller University in 2010 working under Dr. Hironori Funabiki on eukaryotic chromosome segregation. Dr. Tseng transitioned to studying Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms as a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Matthew R. Parsek at the University of Washington. She started her faculty position at UNLV in 2016. The Tseng lab mainly focuses on biofilm physiology and envelope stress response in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.