Martha Folmsbee

Background

About Martha Folmsbee

Martha Folmsbee is a Principal Scientist in the Scientific and Laboratory Services department at Pall Corporation, based in Port Washington, NY. Martha specializes in bacterial and bacteriophage retention testing of sterilizing grade filters. Her work there includes a special focus on mycoplasma filtration (mycoplasma clearance) and sterile filtration of low surface tension fluids, particularly in relation to specific customer applications. Martha received a Masters in Environmental Science from the University of Oklahoma in 1997 and later her PhD in Microbiology in 2004. For her PhD dissertation, she studied the physiology and nutritional requirements of anaerobic growth and biosurfactant production of Bacillus mojavensis and several other bacilli. In 2005, she was awarded an ASM/NCID (American Society for Microbiology/National Centers for Infectious Disease) Post Doctoral Fellowship to work at the CDC (Center for Vector Borne Disease) in Fort Collins, CO. There, she studied the physiology and nutritional requirements of Borrelia burgdorferi with a focus toward the development of defined media for the culture of this organism.