Anna Klimes

Anna Klimes is a Professor of Biology at Western New England University, specializing in plant-pathogen interactions and microbial genomics. Her research leverages advanced genomic tools to investigate the molecular mechanisms of the vascular wilt pathogen Verticillium dahliae and the electricity-producing bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens.

• B.S., University of Columbia, 1993
• Ph.D., University of Ontario, 2006

Prior to joining Western New England University, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in environmental microbiology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and conducted fieldwork on plant pathogens in Colombia and Ontario. Her work spans fundamental questions in fungal development and bacterial genetics, with applications in agricultural and environmental biotechnology.