Natalia A. Kozak-Muiznieks, PhD

Have served as the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention Legionellosis Laboratory Outbreak Response Coordinator since 2008, investigating over 40 outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease and Pontiac fever
Earned PhD in Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics at University of California, Los Angeles, CA in 2006 and was awarded one of six ASM/NCIRD Postdoctoral Fellowships
Author of numerous articles on sequence based typing, molecular epidemiology and genomics of Legionella