Nathan W. Rigel is an associate professor in the Department of Biology at Hofstra University. Since starting his lab in 2013, Dr. Rigel’s research has focused on the various protein trafficking pathways of Acinetobacter. While at Hofstra, Dr. Rigel has taught courses in microbiology, cell and molecular biology, bioinformatics, and bacterial genetics. Dr. Rigel completed his undergraduate studies in Microbiology at the Pennsylvania State University. He then moved south and earned his PhD in Microbiology and Immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill while studying the accessory SecA2 protein export system found in mycobacteria. In 2009, Dr. Rigel returned north to study assembly of outer membrane proteins in Gram-negative bacteria as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. Originally from a small town in central Pennsylvania, Dr. Rigel now lives in Queens with his wife and son. He can be reached at nathan.w.rigel@hofstra.edu.
