Greg Golden
Biomedical Sciences PhD Program


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Greg Golden
Greg earned his B.S. in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics at UCLA. During his undergraduate research, he completed an undergraduate thesis in Robert Gunsalus's lab studying the surface layer protein layer of archaea including Methanosarcina acetivorans. Additionally, he completed a summer internship at DuPont Industrial Biosciences constructing E. coli strains that successfully produce isoprene, a main component of rubber, under nitrogen-limiting conditions. After UCLA, Greg spent a year as a research associate at Stanford University under Deborah Gordon. His work detailed the neurobiology of collective behavior in the Pogonomyrmex barbatus harvester ant.

Greg is now a member of the Biomedical Sciences PhD program on a interdisciplinary project in glycosciences and  infectious diseases that  combines the expertise of primary advisor Jeffrey Esko and the Nizet Lab. His research explores the interface between heparan sulfate proteoglycans and bacterial sepsis, probing the influence of heparan sulfate in host-pathogen interactions, vascular biology, and innate immunity.