Dr. Andrew Pountain is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics in UTHealth Houston’s McGovern Medical School. Andrew attained his Ph.D. in 2018 from the University of Glasgow for his thesis work in molecular parasitology in the laboratory of Prof. Michael Barrett. He did his postdoctoral training first within MMG itself from 2018-2020, studying fungal pathogenesis within the laboratory of Dr. Michael Lorenz, then at the New York University School of Medicine where he investigated bacterial transcriptional dynamics with Dr. Itai Yanai. He joined the faculty of the Department in 2024.