Daria Van Tyne is an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. She attended Vassar College as a Biochemistry major, and was a Fulbright Scholar in Spain for a year in between college and grad school. She completed her PhD at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in the lab of Dyann Wirth, followed by a post-doc in the lab of Mike Gilmore at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. Her lab focuses on three areas: understanding how bacteria evolve during human infection to resist antibiotics and host immune defenses, how resistant bacteria share genes with one another in the hospital and finding new approaches to treat resistant bacterial infections more effectively.