Kacie Traina
Graduate Student
Kacie was born and raised in Santa Clarita, California and earned a B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Yale University. Kacie entered Vanderbilt’s IGP program in 2021 and joined the Skaar lab in 2022. Her research focuses on understanding the effect of zinc at the host-pathogen interface during Acinetobacter baumannii infections.