Bridget Barker S

Bridget Marie Barker, PhD, is a Professor at Northern Arizona University specializing in fungal genomics, ecology of human pathogens, and Valley fever research. She earned her B.A. in Biology and M.S. in Ecological Genetics from the University of Montana, and her Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of Arizona in 2009, focusing on the genomics of Coccidioides spp. Promoted to Associate Professor in 2020 and full Professor in 2024, her lab is funded by NIH/NIAID grants and collaborates with institutions like UCSF and UC-Berkeley.[1][2][4][6]