Dr. Jonathan Budzik is a Visiting Scholar at the University of California Berkeley Cox Lab and an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care  at the University of California, San Francisco. His research interests include understanding the changes in host protein phosphorylation during M. tuberculosis infection and investigating the molecular basis for M. avium complex virulence.

In his presentation, he demonstrates how M. avium forms two different colony types, one of which is pathogenic, by sensing its environment.