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They say what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Whoever coined that adage had probably never heard of Plasmodium. It’s ...
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RESEARCH WILL BE IN COLLABORATION WITH YALE UNIVERSITY Chet Joyner, PhD, a faculty member in the Center for Vaccines and ...
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CTEGD's Cytometry Shared Resource Laboratory recently added a Malvern Panalytical NanoSight NS300 to their suite of cytometry instruments. This was ...
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Jessica Kissinger was recently the guest researcher on the podcast Talking Biotech with Dr. Kevin Folta. Show notes: Parasites are ...
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The University of Georgia’s Biomedical Microscopy Core has recently acquired a Zeiss LSM 980 confocal microscope with Airyscan2 and Multiplex ...
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Samarchith “Sam” Kurup grew up in India, and he’s always been aware of the impact of malaria. In 2020 there ...
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The condition affects tens of millions across the Americas but lacks effective treatments Researchers from the University of Georgia have ...
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Rick Tarleton and colleagues recently published their new study, "Discovery of an orally active benzoxaborole prodrug effective in the treatment ...
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Assistant Research Scientist Christopher Rice is quoted in news stories about the brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri Swimming in freshwater? Here's what ...
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A Nexstar Media wire story on Naegleria fowleri (aka "brain-eating" amoeba) featuring CTEGD director Dennis Kyle has been picked up by ...
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Lọla Fagbami, a postdoctoral research associate at UGA, has been awarded a Burroughs Wellcome Fund 2022 Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program ...
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Cassie Russell, a graduate student in the Department of Infectious Diseases, was an undergraduate when she first heard of Naegleria fowleri, also ...
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by Jill Neimark Jessica Kissinger is using her expertise in biology and big data to help other scientists Jessica Kissinger never ...
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Justine Shiau, an NIH T32 fellow in Dr. Dennis Kyle's laboratory, is originally from Taipei, Taiwan, and moved to the ...
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Vasant Muralidharan, associate professor of cellular biology and a member of CTEGD, was recently interviewed for The Athens Frontline podcast ...
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Three University of Georgia faculty have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In a tradition ...
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With the generous financial support of The Office of Research, Cytometry Shared Resource Lab, Center for Tropical and Emerging Global ...
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Benjamin Phipps is an NIH T32 trainee in Michael Strand's laboratory. Originally from Woodland, California, Benjamin earned his bachelor’s degrees in ...
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Globally, efforts to control malaria caused by Plasmodium vivax are lagging behind that of other species of Plasmodium due to its unique biology. A ...
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Schistosomiasis, caused by several species of the parasitic worm Schistosoma, is a disease of poverty. The debilitating illness keeps people ...
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Two UGA researchers are working to make it easier to develop effective treatments for malaria, a disease that sickens millions ...
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by Donna Huber Though malaria was eliminated from the U.S. 70 years ago, the mosquito-borne disease caused by the Plasmodium ...
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Mike Strand's recently published study is featured in this article at Growing America ...
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Dennis Kyle is quoted in this Nexstar article about Naegleria fowleri ...
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by Ashley Crain Associate professor Belen Cassera is one step closer to introducing her research to the marketplace. Having spent the summer as ...
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Malaria’s connection to Georgia goes back to the colonial period. The Southeastern United States provided prime conditions for a thriving ...
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Last summer, biochemistry associate professor and Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases member Belen Cassera was named the parasitology ...
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Ronald Drew Etheridge’s scientific career can be characterized by one word—serendipity. After completing his bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and molecular ...
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Mayara Bertolini is a third year Ph.D. trainee in the laboratory of Dr. Roberto Docampo. She has recently been awarded ...
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Dr. Dennis Kyle, director of CTEGD and professor in the departments of cellular biology and infectious diseases, is the featured ...
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Dr. Belen Cassera is the featured guest on Episode 4 of the People, Parasites & Plagues Podcast. She discusses the ...
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By Alan Flurry University of Georgia faculty member Tania Rozario has received a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health ...
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Nathan Chasen, a postdoctoral fellow in Drew Etheridge’s laboratory, is originally from Richmond, Virginia. After receiving his undergraduate degree from ...
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University of Georgia researcher, a member of the Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases and a Distinguished Research Professor ...
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We invite recent and soon-to-graduate students (from any biological discipline) to apply for funded postdoctoral fellowships and positions to study ...
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Ynes Ortega's work on the pathogen Cyclospora cayetanensis is featured in Vegetable Growers News, Produce Processing, and Food Safety News ...
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Learn about our research activities, faculty honors, new grants, and trainees from the summer and fall. [button size='large' style='' text='Read ...
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University of Georgia researcher Rick Tarleton has been elected as a 2020 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) ...
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University of Georgia geneticist Jessica Kissinger has been elected a 2020 American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Fellow. Kissinger is a ...
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Recently, Dr. Rick Tarleton was interviewed by Outbreak News Today about his recently published study in Science Translational Medicine. [button ...
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  Megna Tiwari is a second-year Ph.D. trainee in the laboratory of Diego Huet. She is originally from Newport Beach, ...
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Research shows stronger but less frequent drug doses could be key Researchers in the University of Georgia’s Center for Tropical ...
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GRA Endowment helps researchers save lives through drug discovery The Amoeba Summit in Orlando last year is where the importance ...
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Melissa Sleda, a Ph.D. trainee is Silvia Moreno’s laboratory, is in her third year at UGA. She is originally from ...
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T32 trainee Alona Botnar is entering her fifth year as a Ph.D. candidate in Dr. Dennis Kyle’s laboratory. She is ...
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Malaria disease transmission models are important tools for controlling and eliminating disease spread. However, a model is only as good ...
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UGA’s Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases has been awarded $1.9 million from the National Institutes of Health to ...
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Emma Troth, a Ph.D. trainee in Dennis Kyle's laboratory, is entering her fourth year at UGA. She is originally from ...
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It all began with a simple phone call and now, more than a decade later, the Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational ...
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Logan Crowe, an NIH T32 Fellow, joined the lab of Dr. Roberto Docampo as a post-doctoral trainee in September 2019 ...
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Plasmodium species, the parasites that cause malaria, contain a unique organelle known as the apicoplast. Dr. Vasant Muralidharan and his ...
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Dr. Dan Colley, professor emeritus of microbiology and member of the Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases at the ...
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The May CTEGD Newsletter is now available. In this issue... Faculty Honors Trainee Updates Research news Grants Giving Opportunities ...
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One day Daniel Colley raised his hand to volunteer, setting in motion five decades of scientific adventures. It was 1969, ...
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Historically, Cyclospora infection in the United States has been associated with imported fresh produce. However, in 2018, the U.S. saw ...
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Roberto Docampo and colleagues at the University of Georgia’s Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases have joined with 53 ...
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Dr. Daniel G. Colley, Director of the Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation (SCORE), will be retiring from his ...
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Noelia Lander, a cellular biologist and postdoctoral researcher in Roberto Docampo's laboratory, has received the 2020 Postdoctoral Award from the ...
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University of Georgia researcher Dennis Kyle has been elected as a 2020 fellow by the American Academy of Microbiology. He ...
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Edwin Pierre Louis is a pre-doctoral trainee in the laboratory of Dr. Drew Etheridge. Originally from Haiti, he immigrated to ...
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UGA is developing new drugs to fight a lethal parasite. Dennis Kyle discusses what his lab is doing to fight ...
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EMINENT SCHOLAR'S WORK IS FEATURED IN GEORGIA TREND Dennis Kyle’s team is researching drug resistance in parasitic diseases like malaria and the ...
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Our newsletter is now online. View the pdf ...
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New assistant professor Diego Huet is profiled in this Column's article ...
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By: Alan Flurry A team led by scientists at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Georgia provides thousands of ...
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Learn more about malaria and current efforts to eliminate this disease from CTEGD faculty member David Peterson. The Athens Science ...
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The immune system can control a relapsing form of malaria enough to avoid clinical signs of disease, but it doesn’t ...
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Dennis Kyle, director of the Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, was interviewed during the 4th Annual Amoeba Summit ...
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Dr. Fernando Sanchez-Valdéz, from Salta, Argentina, completed a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry at ...
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NemaMetric features Dr. Adrian Wolstenholme: https://nemametrix.com/featured-scientist/featured-scientist-adrian-wolstenholme/ ...
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by Leigh Beeson When warm weather approaches, so do pesky little bloodsucking pests. The unassuming mosquito may be smaller than a ...
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About the Speaker Marc-Jan Gubbels received his Ph.D. at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, on diagnostics and vaccines for ...
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About the Speaker Macrophages are the major cell type infected by Leishmania parasites and the goal of my research is ...
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About the Speaker James Morris is currently a Professor of Genetics and Biochemistry at Clemson University.  He earned his BS ...
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About the Speaker Matthew Collins obtained his Ph.D. studying under mentor Dr. Rick Tarleton at the University of Georgia; his ...
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As the big data revolution continues to evolve, access to data that cut across many disciplines becomes increasingly valuable. In ...
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Now is your chance to get a short sleeve shirt, long sleeve shirt, and/or a sweatshirt with CTEGD's logo. Orders ...
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Silvia Moreno, a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Cellular Biology and a member of CTEGD, studies Toxoplasma gondii, ...
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Registration is now open for the th Annual Molecular Parasitology & Vector Biology Symposium hosted by the Center for Tropical ...
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A $1.5 million initiative to upgrade labs across campus is enabling faculty members such as Regents Professor Michael Strand to ...
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Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Southeast Flow Cytometry Interest Group (SEFCIG) with 4 days of educational training and scientific ...
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Courtney Murdock in her laboratory at the School of Veterinary Medicine (Photo by Dorothy Kozlowski/UGA) Courtney Murdock, an assistant professor ...
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Developing a rapid attack against parasitic worms ...
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by Alan Flurry The National Institutes of Health has awarded University of Georgia researchers $1.956 million for a high-resolution mass spectrometer ...
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by Donna Huber Vaccines can be an efficient and cost-effective method of preventing and treating pathogen-induced illnesses. As new pathogens ...
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By John H. Tibbetts One day Daniel Colley raised his hand to volunteer, setting in motion five decades of scientific ...
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by Camie Williams PREP@UGA Scholars program trains next generation of life sciences researchers. As an undergraduate student in Maryland, Ian Liyayi planned ...
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From leisure to health, digital databases can streamline nearly every facet of modern life. Remember when making travel plans to ...
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Courtney Murdock's recent study on Zika is mentioned in this Gainesville Sun article ...
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Mark Brown is a member of the research team for the study discussed in this Research Matters article ...
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Stephen Vella is a Ph.D. trainee in Silvia Moreno's laboratory. He is originally from Indiana where he received his B.S ...
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The Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences in the College of Pharmacy and the Center for Tropical & Emerging Global ...
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New T32 trainee Josh Butler is a third year Ph.D. student in Belen Cassera's laboratory. He is from Front Royal, ...
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Dr. Stephen Hajduk is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Georgia, USA. He has had a long and distinguished career ...
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by Donna Huber When UGA alumna Dr. Sharon Keller accepted the position of Assistant Professor at Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) ...
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Dan Colley is quoted in this article ...
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  Zika was once thought of as a problem contained to tropical and sub-tropical parts of the world. Today we ...
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Rick Tarleton is mentioned in this news story. The story was also picked up by WZZM13 and Archy Worldy's ...
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Courtney Murdock is quoted in this article appearing in The Scientist ...
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Trisha Dalapati has immersed herself in everything UGA offers, from volunteering to studying abroad to conducting lab research. The future ...
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Don't miss out on all the happenings at CTEGD. Get your copy of our seasonal newsletter now! Spring/Summer 2018 Newsletter ...
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Dr. Ciro D. Cordeiro recently completed his Ph.D. training in Roberto Docampo's laboratory. I was born in Brazil and grew ...
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When Ph.D. trainee Justin Wiedeman started investigating the role of protein kinase TbCK1.2, an enzyme found near the flagellum of ...
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The faculty and staff of the University of Georgia Cytometry Shared Resource Laboratories invite you to a day of flow ...
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Anat Florentin, a post-doctoral associate in Vasant Muralidharan's laboratory, is originally from Israel. She received her BSc degree from Tel-Aviv ...
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Silvia Moreno was recently named Corresponding Member of the Latin American Academy of Sciences. She is a distinguished research professor in ...
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Silvia J. Moreno, a professor in the cellular biology department and director for the NIH Training Grant in Tropical and Emerging ...
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Anat Florentin, a postdoctoral researcher in Vasant Muralidharan's laboratory at the Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, studies molecular mechanisms ...
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Join us on Thursday, April 26 for the 28th Annual Molecular Parasitology & Vector Biology. We are expecting 200 researchers ...
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A number of undergraduates who have conducted research in CTEGD laboratories will be presenting their projects at the University of ...
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It is spring in Athens and that is always an exciting time for the Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases! We always ...
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Trisha Dalapati, an undergraduate studying in Julie Moore's laboratory, is among 211 students from across the nation to be recognized ...
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Researchers at the University of Georgia have discovered that dormancy of the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi prevents effective drug treatment for Chagas ...
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by Leigh Beeson A UGA center takes on a public health problem that includes more than a dozen diseases of poverty ...
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Kerri Miazowicz is a 3rd year Ph.D. trainee in Courtney Murdock's laboratory. She grew up in southern Michigan where she ...
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