Aaron P. Mitchell

Aaron P. Mitchell is Distinguished Research Professor and head of the Department of Microbiology at the University of Georgia. Mitchell has been a UGA faculty member since 2020, when he joined the department of microbiology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences as a professor and department head.

Before coming to UGA, he was a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University for 11 years and Columbia University for 21 years. Mitchell’s research focuses on two leading fungal pathogens, Candida albicans and Candida glabrata, that cause both mucosal and invasive infections. His lab uses gene expression and regulation to study how these pathogens cause infection and identify strategies to improve diagnoses and therapeutics. Throughout his career, Mitchell has published nearly 150 peer-reviewed articles and written more than 30 reviews, chapters and editorials.

Mitchell is a dedicated teacher and mentor. In 2015, he received the Graduate Microbiology Teaching Award from the American Society for Microbiology and in 2021 was awarded the shared namesake for the Jack Edwards and Aaron Mitchell Endowed Lectureship in Molecular Mycology at the Marine Biological Labs in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and the American Association for Advancement of Science.