Kevin Forsberg
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This is Kevin’s CV.
Kevin grew up outside of Madison, Wisconsin and, like any good Wisconsinite, eats way too much cheese (among other things).
Kevin attended college at Arizona State University, during which time he studied copy number variation in autism spectrum disorders. After graduation, Kevin did his PhD work in the lab of Gautam Dantas at Washington University in St. Louis, researching antibiotic resistance genes in soil microbial communities.
For his postdoc, Kevin joined the lab of Harmit Malik at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center to study phage-bacterial conflicts. There, Kevin developed a functional selection to find Cas9 inhibitors from large DNA libraries (e.g. metagenomic libraries). Applied to human oral and fecal microbiomes, this selection revealed many new examples of these phage counter-defenses, including CRISPR-Cas inhibitors with new mechanisms. Kevin’s future lab will continue to use functional selections to reveal new bacterial defenses and phage counter-defenses, which he will pursue in mechanistic detail.
Kevin has a wife, Cara, and two sons, Connor & Owen. He loves them very much.