Dr. Norma W. Andrews is currently a Professor in the Section of Microbial Pathogenesis and the Department of Cell Biology in the School of Medicine at Yale University. Her position as Chair of the Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics will begin in early 2009.

Professor Norma Windsor Andrews has accepted the position as Chair of the Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics. 

Dr. Andrews is currently a Professor in the Section of Microbial Pathogenesis and the Department of Cell Biology in the School of Medicine at Yale University. She is a cell biologist and molecular parasitologist whose research focuses on the mechanisms of host cell invasion by Trypanosoma cruzi and Leishmania amazonensis, as well the mechanism of Ca2+-regulated exocytosis, particularly the role of synaptotagmin VII. 

Dr. Andrews has received many awards, including a Burroughs Wellcome Molecular Parasitology Scholar Award and a MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health.  She has served on a number of editorial boards, and currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Cell Biology and Nature Reviews Microbiology.  She is also a member of the Scientific Council of the Pasteur Institute and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute of Infection Biology.

Dr. Andrews has a distinguished record as an educator.  She has taught a number of courses in microbiology and parasitology at Yale and offered courses at the University of California, San Francisco, University of Lausanne, Rockefeller University, and Marine Biology Laboratories (Woods Hole, MA).  She has been the research advisor for more than thirty Yale undergraduates, graduate students, and medical students, and has mentored more than twenty postdoctoral fellows.    

Dr. Andrews’ formal appointment will begin January 2, 2009.  She will make several trips to College Park during the summer and fall to meet with faculty, staff, and students in the Department, and to participate in College and University events.