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Ryan Hunter, Ph.D., received his bachelor's and doctoral degrees in microbiology at the University of Guelph (Canada) under the guidance of Terry Beveridge. Hunter then pursued his postdoctoral studies with Dianne Newman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Caltech.

Now at the University of Minnesota, research in the Hunter lab is broadly focused on the microbial ecology of healthy and diseased airways. Hunter has a particular interest in how the behavior of canonical pathogens (Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa) is shaped by the mucosal environment and co-colonizing "commensal" microbiota. Hunter's work also is focused on developing innovative laboratory approaches that recapitulate the in vivo microenvironment.