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Dennis Kyle Featured Guest on People, Parasites & Plagues Podcast

Posted on Jun 7, 2021 in CTEGD Blog
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Dr. Dennis Kyle, director of CTEGD and professor in the departments of cellular biology and infectious diseases, is the featured guest on Episode 5 of the People, Parasites & Plagues Podcast. He talks about a deadly disease...

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Belen Cassera Featured on People, Parasites and Plagues Podcast

Posted on May 25, 2021 in CTEGD Blog
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Dr. Belen Cassera is the featured guest on Episode 4 of the People, Parasites & Plagues Podcast. She discusses the development of new drugs to treat and prevent malaria, one of the deadliest diseases afflicting humankind. The podcast...

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UGA’s Rozario receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

Posted on Mar 24, 2021 in CTEGD Blog
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] By Alan Flurry [caption id="attachment_6389" align="aligncenter" width="700"] (Photo courtesy of Tania Rozario)[/caption] University of Georgia faculty member Tania Rozario has received a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award Program, which supports early-career investigators of...

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Trainee Spotlight: Nathan Chasen

Posted on Mar 5, 2021 in CTEGD Blog
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] [caption id="attachment_6339" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Nathan Chasen is a post-doctoral fellow in Drew Etheridge's laboratory (submitted photo)[/caption] Nathan Chasen, a postdoctoral fellow in Drew Etheridge’s laboratory, is originally from Richmond, Virginia. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Emory University,...

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Silvia Moreno elected as American Academy of Microbiology Fellow

Posted on Feb 18, 2021 in CTEGD Blog
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] [caption id="attachment_4614" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Photo credit: Dorothy Kozlowski[/caption] University of Georgia researcher, a member of the Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases and a Distinguished Research Professor in cellular biology, has been elected as a 2021 American...

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CTEGD Emerging Fellows Symposium

Posted on Jan 20, 2021 in CTEGD Blog
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] We invite recent and soon-to-graduate students (from any biological discipline) to apply for funded postdoctoral fellowships and positions to study parasitic diseases at the University of Georgia. Selected applicants will present their research to the CTEGD community...

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In the News: Ynes Ortega’s work on Cyclospora is featured

Posted on Dec 15, 2020 in CTEGD Blog
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]Ynes Ortega's work on the pathogen Cyclospora cayetanensis is featured in Vegetable Growers News, Produce Processing, and Food Safety News.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id="News recent post"][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

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Fall 2020 Newsletter

Posted on Dec 11, 2020 in CTEGD Blog
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Rick Tarleton elected AAAS Fellow

Posted on Nov 30, 2020 in CTEGD Blog
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] [caption id="attachment_6140" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Photo credit: Andrew Tucker[/caption] University of Georgia researcher Rick Tarleton has been elected as a 2020 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow by the AAAS Council “for distinguished contributions to the...

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Stronger, less frequent treatments could cure Chagas disease [video]

Posted on Nov 17, 2020 in CTEGD Blog
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text][vc_video link='https://youtu.be/t5aNtmZON6o'] Video by UGA Research Communications Read more about the study.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id="News recent post"][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

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