Rate My Professor Laura Burrack

Burrack's research examines the role of flexibility in chromosome segregation mechanisms, genome stability, microbial evolution under stress, and antifungal drug resistance, employing Candida albicans and Candida auris as models for aneuploidy and genetic changes observed in cancer cells. Her lab integrates microbiology, molecular biology, genetics, biochemistry, and cell biology techniques. She teaches Principles of Biology, Microbiology, and Cancer Biology, and has co-chaired the 2020 Nobel Conference on Cancer in the Age of Biotechnology. Burrack mentors undergraduates through FYRE projects on fungal pathogen evolution and resistance. Her publication record includes more than 20 peer-reviewed articles, with over 1,400 citations. Key publications comprise 'Erg251 has complex and pleiotropic effects on sterol composition, azole susceptibility, filamentation, and stress response phenotypes' (PLoS Pathogens, 2024), 'Genomic Diversity across Candida auris Clinical Isolates Shapes Rapid Development of Antifungal Resistance In Vitro and In Vivo' (mBio, 2022), 'CaMad2 Promotes Multiple Aspects of Genome Stability Beyond Its Direct Function in Chromosome Segregation' (Genes, 2019), 'A natural histone H2A variant lacking the Bub1 phosphorylation site and regulated depletion of centromeric histone CENP-A foster evolvability in Candida albicans' (PLoS Genetics, 2019), 'Flexibility of centromere and kinetochore structures' (Trends in Genetics, 2012), and 'Genome-Wide RNAi Screen for Host Factors Required for Intracellular Bacterial Infection' (Science, 2005).