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Dr. Heidi Elmendorf: Helping to Stick it to Giardia

Dr. Heidi Elmendorf

Dr. Heidi Elmendorf explains a concept to students in her lab. (Photo: Roland Dimaya)

Dr. Heidi Elmendorf, an associate professor of Biology at Georgetown, is helping to make your high school biology textbook obsolete. Her research on a peculiar single-cell organism called Giardia has yielded fresh insight into properties of cells that scientists have long considered to be givens in the field of biology.

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Student Profile: Rasha Khoury

Rasha Khoury

"My work with Dr. Elmendorf has had a fundamental impact on the way I carry myself as a physician-in-training and social medicine researcher."

Student Profile: Fabio Frisoli

Fabio Frisoli

"My exposure to infectious diseases and my experience with research has solidified my desire to enter into a health profession."

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Student Profile: Christine Helou and Colleen Walls

Christine Helou

"My research and working with Dr. Elmendorf has strongly shaped the way I think and solve problems and has definitely boosted my knowledge of science in general, which should all help me in whatever I pursue in the future."

Dr. Elmendorf Promotes Science At Georgetown

Dr. Heidi Elmendorf

"The sciences on this campus are in a period of astonishing growth and expansion."

Insight: Dr. Heidi Elmendorf

Dr. Heidi Elmendorf

What is your favorite word?
My students this semester would probably say that it is "squelch"--a word I've used once too often to describe the effect of traditional science education on students' enthusiasm for the subject!