Fall 2020 Newsletter
Learn about our research activities, faculty honors, new grants, and trainees from the summer and fall. [button size='large' style='' text='Read Now' icon='' icon_color='BA0C2F' link='http://ctegd.uga.edu/docs/ctegd/newsletter_Dec_2020_video.pdf' target='_self' color='' hover_color='' border_color='' hover_border_color='' background_color='' hover_background_color='' font_style='' font_weight='' text_align='center' margin='']
Rick Tarleton elected AAAS Fellow
Photo credit: Andrew Tucker 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 field of biological sciences, particularly for his research contributions and leadership to control Chagas Disease.” Tarleton is a Regents Professor in …
Jessica Kissinger elected ASTMH Fellow
Jessica Kissinger (Photo by Peter Frey) 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 the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. She also holds appointments in the Institute of Bioinformatics and Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases. …
Outbreak News Today Interviews Rick Tarleton
Recently, Dr. Rick Tarleton was interviewed by Outbreak News Today about his recently published study in Science Translational Medicine. [button size='large' style='' text='Listen Now' icon='' icon_color='BA0C2F' link='http://outbreaknewstoday.com/chagas-disease-treatment-research-with-rick-tarleton-phd-81114/' target='_self' color='' hover_color='' border_color='' hover_border_color='' background_color='' hover_background_color='' font_style='' font_weight='' text_align='' margin='']
Trainee Spotlight: Megna Tiwari
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 (UCR). While at UCR, she worked as an undergraduate researcher in the fungal genomics lab of Dr. …
Stronger treatments could cure Chagas disease
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) Research shows stronger but less frequent drug doses could be key Researchers in the University of Georgia’s Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases have found …
Dennis Kyle: Finding Solutions for Deadly Diseases
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 diseases around the world. (Photo by Andrew Davis Tucker/UGA) GRA Endowment helps researchers save lives through drug discovery The Amoeba Summit in …