Casandra Hoffman, PhD

Casandra L. Hoffman, Ph.D. is a classically trained microbiologist. She obtained her Ph.D. in 2017 at the University of Virginia and studied microbial biofilms. After her Ph.D. she worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Virginia and studied mechanisms by which the host circadian clock confers time-of-day susceptibility to bacterial toxin cytotoxicity and the impacts of nutritional supplementation on growth and developmental outcomes. She then transitioned into a new postdoctoral fellowship position at Oregon Health and Science University and studied the mechanisms by which bacteria utilize host mucins during infection. She returned to UVA in January 2020 to help the co-directors manage the TransUniversity Microbiome Initiative.