Anita Sil
She/her
University of California San Francisco
Anita Sil, Ph.D., M.D., is professor and chair of the Department of Microbiology & Immunology and co-director of the Integrative Microbiology Program at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). Her research focuses on thermally dimorphic fungal pathogens. The long-term goal of her research is to determine how environmental signals such as temperature regulate morphology and virulence in the fungal pathogens Histoplasma and Coccidioides. These organisms sense host temperature to switch from a soil form to a parasitic form that bypasses the anti-microbial strategies of macrophages.
Sil received an undergraduate degree in biochemistry from Harvard and a Ph.D. and M.D. from UCSF. She has served on several editorial boards and was a standing member of the National Institutes of Health Pathogenic Eukaryotes Integrated Review Group. She is a member of the American Academy of Microbiology and was awarded a Burroughs Wellcome New Investigator Award, an Ellison New Scholar Award, an Early Career Scientist Award from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the 2021 Rhoda Benham Lifetime Achievement Award in Medical Mycology from the Medical Mycology Society of America.
Sil received an undergraduate degree in biochemistry from Harvard and a Ph.D. and M.D. from UCSF. She has served on several editorial boards and was a standing member of the National Institutes of Health Pathogenic Eukaryotes Integrated Review Group. She is a member of the American Academy of Microbiology and was awarded a Burroughs Wellcome New Investigator Award, an Ellison New Scholar Award, an Early Career Scientist Award from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the 2021 Rhoda Benham Lifetime Achievement Award in Medical Mycology from the Medical Mycology Society of America.