Western Washington University (BS)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Awards
Burroughs Wellcome Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (2011)
NAS Award in Molecular Biology (2021)
Election to the National Academy of Sciences (2022)
Scientific career
Institutions
University of Washington
Website
https://mougouslab.org/
Joseph Mougous is an American microbiologist. He is a Professor of Microbiology, the Lynn M. and Michael D. Garvey Endowed Chair in Gastroenterology, the Director of the Microbial Interactions & Microbiome Center, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at the University of Washington.[1][2] Mougous is best known for contributions to the field interbacterial antagonism, including discovering the antibacterial activity of the Type VI secretion system (T6SS).[3][4]
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^Hood, Rachel D.; Peterson, S. Brook; Mougous, Joseph D. (2017-03-08). "From Striking Out to Striking Gold: Discovering that Type VI Secretion Targets Bacteria". Cell Host & Microbe. 21 (3): 286–289. doi:10.1016/j.chom.2017.02.001. ISSN 1934-6069. PMC 6404758. PMID 28279332.
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