Staff Directory

Joanna Shisler

Email:
jshisler@nsf.gov
Phone:
(703) 292-5368
Room:
E 12329
Organization:
IOS
Title:
Program Director

Program Responsibilities:
Physiological and Structural Systems (PSS)
Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention Phase II (PIPP Phase II Centers Program)
Synthesis Center for Understanding Organismal Resilience

Biography:

Biography:

Dr. Joanna Shisler is a Program Director at the NSF, Directorate for Biological Sciences, Division of Integrative and Organismal Systems.  A microbiololgist  with 20 years experience, her primary area of interest is in virology. She is a Program Director in the PSS cluster of IOS.

She is currently a Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.  She is a member of the American Soceity for Microbiology and the American Society for Virology. She is an editorial board member for the Journal of Virology.

Dr. Shisler received a BA in Microbiology from Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) and a Ph.D. from Emory University (Atlanta, GA). 

Dr. Shisler's other interests include environmental virology, drinking water treatment,  history, art, and hiking.