Sandra Sanchez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology (2024) at Framingham State University. She earned her B.S. in Biology with a concentration in Microbiology from California State University Northridge in California in 2013. In 2019, she successfully obtained her Ph.D. in Microbiology from Indiana University in the lab of Dr. Dan Kearns. Her graduate work focused on characterizing the hydrolase used by Bacillus subtilis for flagellar insertion. Before joining FSU, Sandra served as an IRACDA Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Dr. Wai-Leung Ng (2020-2024). Tufts IRACDA is an NIH-funded program that prepares postdoctoral fellows for careers as academic researchers. Her research at Tufts focused on the interconnection of motility and quorum sensing in Vibrio cholerae.
