Catherine Armbruster

@catarmbruster

biofilmmaker | assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon | opportunistic pathogens in built environment & infection

Pittsburgh, PA Joined November 2010

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Catherine Armbruster @catarmbruster Jan 4, 2024

The Armbruster Lab is officially open in the Department of Biological Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh! We're studying how bacteria in biofilms persist in the built environment & transition into the host to cause infections. Happy to be here! 🤓

Catherine Armbruster @catarmbruster Jul 14

From lab scripts to a reproducible pipeline! 💻

Check out this article about @CmuScience Quantitative Bio & Bioinformatics MS grad from my lab, Katie Wang.

FYI - Katie is on the job market in bioinformatics & software development. Happy to connect you! cmu.edu/mcs/news-event…

www.cmu.edu Katherine Wang Codes New Tools for Biologists Carnegie Mellon University graduate Katherine Wang is creating bioinformatics tools to make NCBI analysis more accessible and accelerate breakthroughs in the fight against bacterial diseases.

Catherine Armbruster @catarmbruster Jul 7

Check out this @seattletimes article where @MattParsek & I give a microbiologist's perspective on cleaning your home! Brb, scrubbing my sink... 🫧 seattletimes.com/explore/at-hom…

www.seattletimes.com Oh, the places germs go | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing Your home, particularly the damp areas, may be crawling with microbes. Here's how to contain them.

Catherine Armbruster @catarmbruster Jun 2

Gearing up for my first visit to @ASMicrobiology conference since 2011 in New Orleans, when it was called the General Meeting! I’m participating in a panel called: “Poster to Paper — Ask the Experts” on Sunday, June 7 from 11:15am–12:00pm ET. See you in DC! 🫡 #asm2026

Catherine Armbruster @catarmbruster Mar 26

Congrats to Anish Pyne (@ani_mrprfct) for winning the People’s Choice Award in tonight’s 3 Minute Thesis competition @CarnegieMellon 🥳🥳🥳 @CMU_Bio