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Joe Sanfilippo is an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, affiliated with the School of Molecular & Cellular Biology. His research focuses on understanding how physical forces like fluid flow influence bacterial behavior and physiology. He holds a B.S. in Genetics from the University of Wisconsin (2011), a Ph.D. in Microbiology from Indiana University (2016), and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University (2016-2020).
Research Interests:
- Rheosensing mechanisms in bacteria
- Interdisciplinary approaches combining microbiology, engineering, and physics
- Antibiotic resistance in dynamic environments
- Microbial stress responses to fluid shear and oxidative stress
Recent Work Highlights:
- Discovered bacterial rheosensing via microfluidic transcriptomics (Nature Microbiology, 2019)
- Developed novel microfluidic devices mimicking natural bacterial habitats
- Showed fluid flow can enhance antibiotic efficacy against pathogens
Awards: Named Scholar Position (School of MCB, 2023). Active in mentoring graduate students and organizing research retreats.
Labs/Teams: Sanfilippo Lab focuses on engineering realistic bacterial environments to study mechanobiology and pathogenesis mechanisms.
