William Wiley Navarre, Ph.D.
Professor and Associate Chair
(Mentorship and Equity)
William Navarre was born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan and attended the University of Michigan as an undergraduate. He obtained his Ph.D. in the lab of Olaf Schneewind at UCLA studying the anchoring of surface proteins in Gram-positive bacteria. He was a Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Fellow and did post-doctoral work with Arturo Zychlinsky at New York University prior to joining the lab of Ferric Fang at the University of Washington in Seattle. With Ferric he studied mechanisms of bacterial resistance to immune effectors. He joined the Department of Molecular Genetics as an Assistant Professor in September of 2007 and was a CIHR New Investigator.
He maintains an active role in teaching and is the coordinator for MGY377H1, the main bacteriology course on campus. He created the online microbiology course MGY277H1 (Introduction to Medical Microbiology) and the second-year undergraduate research course MGY280H1. He was awarded an Excellence in Undergraduate Life Sciences Teaching Award in 2017.
Current Lab Members
Jhenielle Campbell
Ph.D. Candidate
Daniella Serrador
Ph.D. Candidate
Kevin Cao
MSc Candidate
Spencer Brooks
Undergraduate Researcher
Gelila Shefraw
Undergraduate Researcher
Kenson Wong
Undergraduate Researcher
Lab Alumni (in no particular order)
Graduate Students
Cayla Burk, PhD
Erin Wong, PhD
Brian Hicks, MSc
Danica Chaharlangi, MSc
Emma Brownlie, MSc
Steven Hersch, PhD
Betty Zou, PhD
Sabrina Ali, PhD
Grace Tong, MSc
Sinwan Basharat, MSc
Jeremy Soo, MSc
Emily Beckett–Sward, MSc
James Stevenson, MSc
Undergraduate Students
Dorothy Cheung
Undergraduate Researcher
2023-2024
Daniela Atere
Undergraduate Researcher
2023-2024
Avril Wang
Undergraduate Researcher
2022-2023
Oriana Sully Monaco
Undergraduate Researcher
2022-2023
Andie Kim
Undergraduate Researcher
2021-2022
Osama Abdin
Undergraduate Researcher
Patrick Lavoie
Undergraduate Researcher
Yin Cheng
Undergraduate Researcher
Sornujah Kathirgamanathan
Undergraduate Researcher
Sudipta Saha
Undergraduate Researcher
Golnoosh Siavash
Undergraduate Researcher
Jack Stanley
Undergraduate Researcher
Andrea Watson
Undergraduate Researcher
Bojana Radan
Undergraduate Researcher
Bushra Ilyas
Undergraduate Researcher
Rebecca Hylton
Undergraduate Researcher
Lucy Xie
Undergraduate Researcher
Grown ups
Martha Cordova, MSc
Research Technician
Vivian Cheung, MSc
Research Technician
Hazel Soto-Montoya, BSc
Research Technician
Andrea Leung, MSc
Research Technician