Kimberly Kline is a full professor at the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine.

She is interested in the pathogenesis of biofilm-associated infections. In her research she applies a variety of genetic and genomic approaches to interrogate both monomicrobial and polymicrobial Enterococcus faecalis biofilm pathogenesis, including transposon screens in vitro and in vivo using animal models and transposon-sequencing.