As a graduate student, Nathan employed Saccharomyces cerevisiae (brewer's yeast) as a model organism to study the effects of bacterial secreted effector proteins on host cell biology. As a postdoc, Nathan studies the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans, focusing primarily on hyphal morphogenesis and its relation to sexual reproduction and virulence.
PhD in Microbiology, 2020, University of Georgia
BS in Biology, 2015, Louisiana State University
BS in Physics, 2013, Louisiana State University
Selected Publications
Glueck NK, O'Brien KM, Seguin DC, Starai VJ. Legionella pneumophila LegC7 effector protein drives aberrant endoplasmic reticulum:endosome contacts in yeast. Traffic. 2021;22(8):284-302. https://doi.org/10.1111/tra.12807
J Lin, T Pham, K Hipsher, N Glueck, Y Fan, X Lin. Immunoprotection against Cryptococcosis Offered by Znf2 Depends on Capsule and the Hyphal Morphology. 2022;13(1). https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.02785-21
