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Thomas Bernhardt, Ph.D., is a professor in the Microbiology Department at Harvard Medical School and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University where he worked with Ry Young, Ph.D., studing how phages with small single-strand nucleic acid genomes lyse bacteria at the end of their infection cycle. He then trained as a postdoctoral fellow with Piet de Boer, Ph.D., at Case Western Reserve University where he studied the spatiotemporal control of bacterial cell division. Bernhardt’s lab focuses on understanding how bacterial cells build their cell envelope and how the process of envelope biogenesis is compromised by antibiotics.