William Wiley Navarre, Ph.D.
Professor and Vice Chair

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). He was awarded an Excellence in Undergraduate Life Sciences Teaching Award in 2017.


Cayla Burk
Ph.D. Candidate

Jhenielle Campbell
Ph.D. Candidate

Daniella Serrador
MSc. Candidate

Daniela Atere
Undergraduate Researcher

Dorothy Cheung
Undergraduate Researcher


Lab Alumni

Erin Wong, PhD

Emma Brownlie, MSc

Danica Chaharlangi, MSc

Brian Hicks, MSc

Martha Cordova, MSc
Research Technician

Avril Wang
Undergraduate Researcher

Osama Abdin
Undergraduate Researcher

Sornujah Kathirgamanathan
Undergraduate Researcher

Oriana Sully Monaco
Undergraduate Researcher

Jack Stanley
Undergraduate Researcher

Yin Cheng
Undergraduate Researcher