Elizabeth McGraw
American biologist and academic
Elizabeth "Beth" McGraw is a biologist and entomologist. She is a professor of entomology and head of the Department of Biology at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research focuses on mosquito vector biology, Wolbachia–host interactions, and vector-borne diseases. She was elected a Fellow of the American Society for Microbiology.
Early life and education
McGraw received a Bachelor of Science with honours in biology from the University of Michigan–Flint in 1993. She completed a Ph.D. in biology at the Pennsylvania State University in 1998.
Career
Following her doctoral studies, McGraw held postdoctoral appointments at Yale School of Medicine from 1999 to 2001 and at the University of Queensland from 2001 to 2002. At Yale, she was initially a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral trainee. In 2002, McGraw joined the University of Queensland as an assistant professor in genetics.
McGraw joined the Monash University School of Biological Sciences in 2011 as a Larkins Fellow.
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