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Ale Villegas and Vasant Muralidharan

Ph.D. candidate Ale Villegas and advisor Vasant Muralidharan receive Gilliam Graduate Fellowship Award

Posted on Jul 28, 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_6635" align="aligncenter" width="600"] PhD Candidate Ale Villegas and Advisor Dr. Vasant Muralidharan (Photo Courtesy of Vasant Muralidharan)[/caption] 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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Jessica Kissinger

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...

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Anat Florentin receives 2018 Postdoctoral Research Award

Posted on Apr 23, 2018 in CTEGD Blog
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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 that drive life stages of Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest of parasite species that infect humans with malaria. During her exceptionally productive years at UGA, she has advanced...

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