Joseph Bondy-denomy PhD

Joseph Bondy-Denomy is an Associate Professor at UCSF, in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology. Joe went to the University of Waterloo for his undergrad in Biology (Microbiology specialization) and spent time as a co-op student in labs at Western University (London, ON) and McGill University (Montreal, QC). Joe then attended the University of Toronto to complete his PhD in Alan Davidson’s Lab where he studied interactions between bacteriophages and the human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa, focusing on the effects of lysogeny and the CRISPR-Cas immune system. In 2015, Joe started the lab at UCSF as a Sandler Fellow and in November of 2017, became an Assistant Professor. In July of 2020, he was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Joe also became an investigator with the UCB Innovative Genomics Institute in 2019.

Alongside all of the exciting scientific endeavors Joe is involved within the lab, he is also a scientific advisory board member of SNIPR Biome and Excision Biotherapeutics and is a scientific advisory board member and co-founder of Acrigen Biosciences. Joe also has a long-standing love of baseball, Canada, and first and foremost, his wife and two sons. As a PI and UCSF Faculty member, Joe has completed Gilliam Mentorship Training, UCSF DEI Champion Training, and the following UCSF workshops: Acknowledging and Negotiating the Mentor-Mentee Tensions Inherent in the Research Lab, Career Conversations, and Three Truths and Three Tries: Facing and Overcoming Critical Social Justice Challenges at the Micro, Mezzo, and Macro Levels. The UCSF Graduate Faculty Development Program has a handy Faculty Participation Tracker and a comprehensive list of all faculty trainings.