Som S. Chatterjee, PhD
- Academic Title: Assistant Professor
- Primary Appointment: University of Maryland School of Dentistry
- Secondary Appointment(s): Microbiology and Immunology
- Email: schatterjee@umaryland.edu
- Location: 701 E Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202
- Phone (Primary): 410-234-8890
Education and Training
- Institute for Medical Microbiology, Justus-Liebig University (JLU), Giessen, Germany, PhD, 2006
- Department of Bio-physics & Molecular Biology, University College of Science & Technology, Kolkata, India, MS, 2001
- Department of Zoology, Dinabandhu Andrews College, Kolkata, India, BS, 1999
Biosketch
Dr. Chatterjee received his master’s degree from the Department of Biophysics and Molecular Biology, University of Kolkata (Calcutta), India. He then went on to perform his doctoral studies in the laboratory of Dr. Trinad Chakraborty in Justus-Liebig University, Germany where he studied the infection process of Listeria monocytogenes, an intracellular pathogen that is responsible for causing food-borne illnesses.
After completing his PhD, he joined Dr. Michael Otto’s group at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the secretion process of a group of cytolytic peptide toxins called Phenol Soluble Modulins (PSMs) in S. aureus. In 2014, Dr. Chatterjee joined Dr. Henry Chambers’ group at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to study the major public health problem of antimicrobial resistance in S. aureus. In 2015, he became an Assistant Adjunct Professor at UCSF.
In January of 2019, Dr. Chatterjee joined the faculty at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB). He is a member of the University of Maryland School of Dentistry (SOD) Department of Microbial Pathogenesis.
Please visit the Dr. Som Chatterjee Lab website to learn more about Dr. Chatterjee’s research, team, publications, and background. The site includes his complete biography, research interests, and information about lab personnel.
Research/Clinical Keywords
Staphylococcus aureus