Ashley Groshong, Ph.D.
Rocky Mountain Laboratories/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Ashley Groshong, Ph.D., is the unit chief of the Bacterial Physiology and Metabolism Unit at Rocky Mountain Laboratories/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Her lab focuses on nutrient acquisition pathways of tick-borne pathogenic bacteria using interdisciplinary approaches including, but not limited to, bacterial mutagenesis, molecular biology, structural biology and immunology.
Groshong received a B.S. in biology and a B.A. in chemistry and English at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She began studying Borrelia burgdorferi and its virulence determinants during her Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Connecticut Health Center, where she studied B. burgdorferi gene regulation throughout the enzootic cycle, continued on as an instructor of basic science and began developing her studies on amino acid acquisition by the spirochete.
Groshong received a B.S. in biology and a B.A. in chemistry and English at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She began studying Borrelia burgdorferi and its virulence determinants during her Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Connecticut Health Center, where she studied B. burgdorferi gene regulation throughout the enzootic cycle, continued on as an instructor of basic science and began developing her studies on amino acid acquisition by the spirochete.