Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University

• Speaker, Emerging Infectious Disease Symposium, 18 Sep 2021

Assoc Prof Kimberly Kline is an Associate Professor of Microbiology at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and a Principal Investigator at the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering. Prior to coming to Singapore, Assoc Prof Kline received an MPH in Biostatistics and Epidemiology and PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from Northwestern University.  She completed her postdoctoral training at Washington University in St Louis, and at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.

Assoc Prof Kline has received multiple awards for her contributions in the field of microbiology, including a NIH K99 Career Development Award in 2011, the Singapore National Research Foundation Fellowship in 2011, the ICAAC Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Microbiology in 2014, and the Nanyang Education Award in 2017.

Research interests in the Kline lab centres around two themes:

1) Molecular mechanisms of biofilm-associated virulence factor assembly in Gram positive pathogens

2) Pathogenesis of polymicrobial infections, with an emphasis on those involving Enterococcus faecalis.