Robin Chamberland PhD

Robin R. Chamberland, Ph.D., directs the clinical microbiology labs at SSM Saint Louis University Hospital. She assists SLU-DDG investigators who may need access to clinical samples and provides clinical perspective to SLU-DDG investigators. Chamberland studies antimicrobial resistance in S. aureus, a relatively common commensal bacterium that causes opportunistic infections with growing drug resistance. She also studies bacterial toxins and their interaction with the host's innate immune system. She focuses on the setting of S. aureus necrotizing pneumonia.