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Nicole Putnam

Johns Hopkins


Jim Cassat lab

I am focused on studying innate sensing of Staphylococcus aureus by skeletal cells during bone infection (osteomyelitis). Specifically, I'm focused on bone-resorbing osteoclasts that differentiate from the myeloid lineage and how the presence of bacteria in bone and inflammation alter normal bone remodeling processes, leading to bone destruction.