Mary-Pat Stein
Professor

Brief Biography

Stein came to CSUN into the department of Biology in 2006. Stein was promoted to Associate Professor in 2011 and to Professor in 2017. Stein is currently the Chair of PP&R. Stein served as Faculty Senate President (2018-2020), Director of Queer Studies (2017-2019), and Clinton Global Initiative University campus Mentor (2017-18). Stein also served as a consultant for the Office of Student Success Initiative (2017-2018) and continues to be a member of the U100 First Year Experience Steering Committee.

Stein has served on the CSUN Faculty Senate for 13 of her 14 years on campus in a variety of roles including College of Science and Mathematics representative, Senator-at-Large, Vice-President and Faculty President. Stein previously served on the Graduate Studies Committee for six years, three of which she served as Chair. Service to CSUN and its students has been a driving passion for Stein since her arrival in 2006.

Stein graduated from the Univ. of Pennsylvania in 1985 with a B.A. in Biological Basis of Behavior. In 1994, Stein completed a Master’s Degree in Biomedical Science from Hood College, and then went on to earn a Ph.D. in Biomedical Science from the University of New Mexico in 2000. Stein then completed her first postdoctoral fellowship at the Univ. of New Mexico in intracellular trafficking in 2004 and her second fellowship at Yale in the pathogenesis of Legionella in 2006 prior to arriving at CSUN.

Research 

Intracellular Trafficking of Legionella pneumophila Diabetes and glucose sensors

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