Elissa Hallem

Elissa Hallem received a B.A. (1999) from Williams College and a Ph.D. (2005) from Yale University. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology (2005–2010) prior to her 2011 appointment as an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics at the University of California at Los Angeles. Her scientific articles have appeared in such publications as Nature, Cell, Annual Review of Entomology, and PNAS.