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Susan M. Lea, DPhil, FMedSci., FRS

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Endowed Chair in Structural Biology

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Susan M. Lea, DPhil, FMedSci., FRS

Structural Biology

MS 314

St. Jude Childen's Research Hospital

262 Danny Thomas Place

MemphisTN 38105-3678 United States

Education

BA – University of Oxford, Oxford, UK DPhil – University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 

Research Interests

  • Defining the architecture for type 3 protein secretion systems
  • Structure and mechanisms of bacterial flagellar motility
  • Structures and functions of bacterial folded-protein secretion systems
  • Bacterial evasion of mammalian immunity and vaccine design
  • Eukaryotic protein translocation and processing machineries