{"id":112,"date":"2022-07-13T14:50:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T18:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/biology\/?post_type=person&#038;p=112"},"modified":"2025-07-14T11:41:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T15:41:21","slug":"dr-claudia-l-rocha-ph-d","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/biology\/faculty-staff\/dr-claudia-l-rocha-ph-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Claudia L. Rocha, Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. Rocha teaches Microbiology, General BIology for Engineers, Introduction to BIology for Biology majors, and Foundations of Biology for non-majors. Currently she&#8217;s conducting research in bacterial ecology in relation to climate change, especifically in the detection and characterization of potential human pathogens present in nuisance flooding waters affecting the Charleston peninsula. Two bacterial pathogens from the genus <em>Vibrio, V. parahaemolyticus<\/em> and <em>V. vulnificus, <\/em>are under study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-research-interests\">Research Interests<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Bacterial Pathogenesis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-degrees\">Degrees<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ph.D. with Honors in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine \u2013 Medical University of South Carolina<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>B.S. in Microbiology \u2013 Universidad de Los Andes, Bogot\u00e1, Colombia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Rocha teaches Microbiology, General BIology for Engineers, Introduction to BIology for Biology majors, and Foundations of Biology for non-majors. 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