Karen Guillemin

Karen Guillemin, Ph.D. is an American microbiologist known for her work on the role of bacteria in influencing animal development and health. She trained with renowned microbiologist Stanley Falkow, studying how the stomach bacterium "Helicobacter pylori" interacts with gastric epithelial cells. She has been a professor at University of Oregon since 2001, where she continues her work on "H. pylori", but has gained widespread recognition for developing zebrafish as a model organism to study the effects of the microbiome on animal development and health. Guillemin has published over 70 scientific papers.
Honors and awards.
In 2015, Guillemin was named as a Senior Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Humans & the Microbiome Program. In 2016, Guillemin was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.