Cleveland Clinic
Adeline (Lynn) Hajjar, DVM, PhD, is Director of the Gnotobiotics Facility in the Center for Microbiome and Human Health at the Lerner Research Institute of the Cleveland Clinic. She is also Associate Staff in the Department of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences and Associate Professor of Molecular Medicine in the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine.
Dr Hajjar earned her DVM from the University of Illinois, Urbana, and her PhD from the Department of Microbiology at the University of Washington, Seattle. She remained at the University of Washington for postdoctoral training in the Department of Immunology and established an independent laboratory in 2009 in the Department of Comparative Medicine. She also helped establish and then became the director of the Gnotobiotic Animal Core at the University of Washington, before joining the Cleveland Clinic in 2018. Dr Hajjar has over 20 years of research experience concentrating in areas of Toll-like receptor biology and inflammatory responses as well as mouse models of infection, including Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, Yersinia pestis, and Bordetella pertussis, with a particular interest in overcoming mouse-human differences in innate immunity by creation of humanized mouse models. In addition to her service duties, she currently maintains a small research laboratory investigating the role of the microbiome in cystic fibrosis.
Friday, November 4, 2022
9:45 AM – 11:45 AM ET