Michael Weigand PhD

Dr. Michael Weigand is a Bioinformatics Health Scientist in CDC’s Pertussis and Diphtheria Laboratory, Division of Bacterial Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. His primary research interest is comparative genomics of bacterial pathogens, focusing on Bordetella pertussis. Since 2014, Dr. Weigand has led the laboratory’s efforts to characterize novel genetic variation among circulating B. pertussis using high-throughput sequencing and bioinformatics. He holds a BS in Biochemistry and Environmental Chemistry from St. Vincent College and a PhD in Genetics from Michigan State University. He completed Postdoctoral training in microbial genomics and bioinformatics at the Georgia Institute of Technology.