Shannon Manning

Shannon Manning
  • MSU Foundation Professor
  • Microbiology & Molecular Genetics

WEBSITE

https://manninglab.natsci.msu.edu/

BIOGRAPHY

Shannon Manning, Ph.D., M.P.H., a molecular biologist and epidemiologist, is an MSU Foundation Professor at Michigan State University (MSU). She is mainly interested in the application of Research Fellow in the Emerging Infectious Diseases program funded through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Association of Public Health Laboratories. Through molecular biology, population genetic, and phylogenetic methods to answer questions about the pathogenesis, emergence, virulence, evolution, and transmission of food- and water-borne pathogens, such as Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC). After earning a M.P.H. and Ph.D. in molecular epidemiology in 1998 and 2001 from the University of Michigan, she worked as a this fellowship, she was placed at the Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH), Bureau of Laboratories for two years working on the characterization of STEC isolates from patients in Michigan. Dr. Manning came to MSU in 2004 as a Research Assistant Professor working jointly with Dr. Thomas Whittam and Dr. H. Dele Davies. She joined the faculty in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Michigan State University (MSU) in October 2010.

 

AREA OF EXPERTISE

  • Molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics of infectious diseases