Julie A. Theriot (born 1967) is a microbiologist, professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine,^[1] and heads the Theriot Lab.^[2] She was a Predoctoral Fellow and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.^[3] She was a fellow at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.^[4]

She graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Biology and Physics in 1988, and from the University of California, San Francisco, with a Ph.D. in Cell Biology in 1993. Her work has investigated bacterial infections, such as Shigella, and Listeria.^[5]

Awards

• 2004 MacArthur Fellows Program
• 2019 Keith R. Porter Lecture^[6]
• 2021 Member of the U. S. National Academy of Sciences.^[7]

Works

• "Mechanism for cell shapeliness decoded from fish scales", Nature 453, xi (22 May 2008)^[8]
• Physical biology of the cell, Authors Rob Phillips, Janè Kondev, Julie Theriot, Garland Science, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8153-4163-5
• "Bacterial Manipulation of the Host Cell Cytoskeleton", Cellular microbiology, Editor Pascale Cossart, ASM Press, 2005, ISBN 978-1-55581-302-4
• "Movement of Bacterial Pathogens Driven by Actin Polymerization", Motion analysis of living cells, Editors David R. Soll, Deborah Wessels, Wiley-IEEE, 1998, ISBN 978-0-471-15915-5