Dr. Ann Aindow holds a BA in Molecular & Cell Biology from UC Berkeley (2015). She completed her PhD in Biochemistry at Harvard University (2021), where she studied cell wall biosynthesis enzymes from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Following her PhD, she studied bacteriophage replication mechanisms as a postdoctoral scholar at UC San Diego. She joined the faculty at Creighton in fall of 2025.