Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research

Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Department of Pathology, Cambridge University

Jeanne Salje is a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biochemistry and the Department of Pathology at Cambridge University, and an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Bangkok, Thailand. Her research focusses on understanding the fundamental biology of a group of bacteria that exclusively replicate inside living eukaryotic cells. These obligate intracellular bacteria cause a range of human and animal diseases, and the Salje lab is particularly focused on one called Orientia tsutsugamusi that causes the severe but neglected human disease scrub typhus. Research areas include mechanisms of bacterial growth and division, interactions with host cells, and disease pathogenesis.

Areas of expertise: obligate intracellular bacteria, Rickettsiales, Orientia tsutsugamushi, scrub typhus, host-pathogen interactions, vector-borne bacterial infections, bacterial cell biology.