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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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Jessica Kissinger elected ASTMH Fellow

Posted on Nov 16, 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_4775" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Jessica Kissinger (Photo by Peter Frey)[/caption] University of Georgia geneticist Jessica Kissinger has been elected a 2020 American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Fellow. Kissinger is a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Genetics, part of...

Outbreak News Today Interviews Rick Tarleton

Posted on Nov 9, 2020 in CTEGD Blog

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Trainee Spotlight: Megna Tiwari

Posted on Nov 4, 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] Megna Tiwari is a second-year Ph.D. trainee in the laboratory of Diego Huet. She is originally from Newport Beach, California and completed her undergraduate degree in Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology at the University of California, Riverside...

Stronger treatments could cure Chagas disease

Posted on Oct 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_6079" align="aligncenter" width="600"] 3D (left) and single slice (right) light sheet microscopy imaging of the heart of a mouse infected with two strains (red and blue) of Trypanosoma cruzi. (Image credit: Fernando Sanchez-Valdez)[/caption] Research shows stronger but...

Dennis Kyle: Finding Solutions for Deadly Diseases

Posted on Sep 21, 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_6011" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Dennis Kyle leads the UGA Center for Tropical and Emerging Diseases, and his endowment enables him to run a 16-person lab of student researchers, postdocs, and research scientists fighting a host of parasitic...

Trainee Spotlight: Melissa Sleda

Posted on Sep 16, 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] Melissa Sleda, a Ph.D. trainee is Silvia Moreno’s laboratory, is in her third year at UGA. She is originally from Sandusky, Michigan and attended Lawrence Technological University where she majored in Molecular and Cell Biology with a...

Trainee Spotlight: Alona Botnar

Posted on Aug 18, 2020 in CTEGD Blog

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Age influences thermal tolerance in Asian malaria mosquito

Posted on Aug 11, 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_5281" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Environmental portrait of Courtney Murdock in her laboratory at UGA's School of Veterinary Medicine (Dorothy Kozlowski)[/caption] Malaria disease transmission models are important tools for controlling and eliminating disease spread. However, a model is only...

NIH awards CTEGD $1.9 million to support training in tropical and emerging global diseases

Posted on Aug 6, 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] UGA’s Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases has been awarded $1.9 million from the National Institutes of Health to continue its pre- and post-doctoral training program for the next five years. First funded in 2004, CTEGD...

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