Postdoctoral Fellow
Education:
Ph.D. Yale University
B.S. University of Maryland
Biography
Dr. Anna B. Seminara earned a B.S. in biological sciences from the University of Maryland College Park in 2019. While at UMD, Anna worked in the lab of Dr. Vincent Lee studying second-messenger nucleotide signaling molecules in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In 2025, Anna earned her doctorate from Yale University in the lab of Dr. Stavroula Hatzios. Her thesis work used chemical biology approaches to investigate how the dietary antioxidant ergothioneine influences the physiology and pathogenesis of the human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori.
Dr. Seminara joined the BOSU in July 2025 to investigate regulatory RNAs in spirochetes.