Welcome to the Bollyky Lab website
We are a microbiology & immunology lab at Stanford University. Our lab is interested in understanding the host and microbial factors that perpetuate chronic infections and in developing novel therapeutic interventions to improve human health.
One area of active research is the innate immune response to bacterial infections. Current efforts are focused on understanding how bacteria manipulate the host immune response to influence bacterial clearance. These efforts are focused on Pseudomonas skin and lung infections.
A second area of research involves bacteriophages in the human body (the phageome). We are developing tools to characterize the phageome and to elucidate it’s links to health and disease.
A third area of active research involves bacteriophages in bacterial pathogenesis. We are studying how lysogenic bacteriophages contribute to bacterial virulence and anti-microbial resistance.
A fourth area of research is phage therapy – the use of lytic bacteriophages to treat chronic bacterial infections. Phage therapy has outstanding potential to treat antimicrobial-resistant infections but also other diseases associated with the microbiome, including cancer, allergy, and autoimmunity.
A fifth area of research is in developing bacteriophages for synthetic biology applications, including cell delivery of genes and peptides. We’re excited to engineer phages and phage delivery platforms to develop novel therapeutics.
Looking for a lab?
We are looking for enthusiastic and driven undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral researchers with interests and expertise in engineering, microbiology, biological sciences, or a related field. Independence, creativity, passion, and good communication skills are essential.
The Bollyky Lab is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive community of scientists and engineers from all backgrounds including (but not limited to) ethnicity, nationality, race, religion, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, ability, socioeconomic status, experience, and training. We believe that an inclusive environment is the only fertile medium in which to pursue excellence in learning, research, and service. The Bollyky Lab is dedicated to building an open and accepting laboratory environment to welcome talented individuals from all backgrounds and foster their growth and success here at Stanford and in their future careers.
If you are interested in joining our lab, please feel free to contact team members to discuss their experience in the lab and within the Stanford community.
To apply as a PhD student, please first apply to the Doctoral Prorgam in Microbiology & Immunology or Immunology. The department provides every PhD student with full financial support for the duration of the PhD degree, contingent on the student maintaining satisfactory academic progress.
To apply as a post-doc, please send a cover letter, CV, and contact information for three references to: pbollyky@bollykylab
We take high school and undergraduate students through the SSRP program: https://biosciences.stanford.edu/prospective/diversity/ssrp/
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