Nnamdi Ekesi

Bio

Dr. Nnamdi Simon Ekesi is an Associate Professor in the Gregg Wadley College of Science & Health Professions at Northeastern State University. He earned his Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Arkansas and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the FDA National Center for Toxicological Research in Dr. Mark E. Harts Microbiology laboratory, where he studied hostpathogen interactions involving urogenital tract microbiota and Staphylococcus aureus, including TSST-1mediated toxic shock syndrome and post-influenza secondary bacterial pneumonia. He teaches across the biology curriculum, integrating grant-supported Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) to train students in infectious disease biology. His research focuses on hostpathogen mechanisms of infectious disease, including S. aureus colonization and virulence, gut microbiomemediated inflammation and intestinal health, and bacterial chondronecrosis with osteomyelitis (BCO) in broilers.