Rebecca Case

Assoc. Prof. Rebecca Case started her graduate research career at the University of New South Wales, Australia, studying the chemical ecology of bacteria pathogenic to their seaweed host. She discovered that, in these pathogens, virulence is regulated by temperature, linking climate change to the health of marine ecosystems. During her Fellowship with the Harvard Center for the Environment and Medical School, USA, she focused on natural product discovery from marine bacteria. Prior to joining SCELSE-SBS, Dr Case was an associate professor at the University of Alberta, Canada, where she developed a novel model host for bacterial pathogens that her research team used to decipher bacterial-algal interactions and the molecular level.