Connie Slocum B.S.
Connie Slocum
Ph.D. Student
Address: Boston University Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases. 650 Albany st. X-620. Boston, MA 02118
Email: cslocum@bu.edu
Office: 617-414-5286
About Me:
I am originally from a small town in upstate New York and moved to the Boston area in 2004. I received my B.S. in Biology with a minor in Chemistry from Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, MA in 2008. I worked in the pharmaceutical industry for two years after graduating college before deciding to pursue a PhD. I’ve stayed in Boston because not only is it a great city, but also is one of the best places for new and exciting research!
Education:
Ph.D. candidate in Molecular Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine; Boston, MA
Research:
I work with the bacterium Porphyromonas gingivalis, one of the predominate pathogens responsible for the initiation and progression of periodontal disease. Studies from the Genco laboratory have shown that this oral pathogen accelerates aortic plaque accumulation in an ApoE-/- mouse model of atherosclerosis. The goal of my project is to elucidate how this pathogen evades host innate immune defenses in order to persist in the host and subsequently contribute to chronic inflammatory atherosclerosis.
