Honor Tag

Jessica Kissinger elected as AAAS Fellow

Posted on Jan 27, 2022 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_5970" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Dr. Jessica Kissinger with student[/caption] Three University of Georgia faculty have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In a tradition stretching back to 1874, these individuals are elected annually by...

Cassera named summer 2021 Innovation Fellow

Posted on Aug 9, 2021 in CTEGD Blog

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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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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...

Rick Tarleton elected AAAS Fellow

Posted on Nov 30, 2020 in CTEGD Blog

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Dennis Kyle elected as American Academy of Microbiology Fellow

Posted on Mar 31, 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] University of Georgia researcher Dennis Kyle has been elected as a 2020 fellow by the American Academy of Microbiology. He joins a class of 68 new fellows this year. Kyle is a GRA Eminent Scholar in antiparasitic drug...

Silvia Moreno named Corresponding Member of the Latin American Academy of Sciences

Posted on May 16, 2018 in CTEGD Blog

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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 the department of cellular biology and also serves as director of CTEGD's NIH-funded Training Grant in Interdisciplinary Parasitology, Vector Biology, Emerging Diseases. Her research team...

Silvia Moreno named Distinguished Research Professor

Posted on Apr 30, 2018 in CTEGD Blog

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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 Global Diseases, is recognized for her studies on calcium signaling in parasitic protozoa. Her work defined the link between calcium signaling and pathogenesis of infectious organisms....

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...

Patrick Lammie Awarded Donald Mackay Medal

Posted on Nov 6, 2017 in CTEGD Blog

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Patrick Lammie, CTEGD member and adjunct faculty in the Department of Cellular Biology, was awarded the Donald Mackay Medal during the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene's (ASTMH) annual meeting in Baltimore, MD. The Donald Mackay Medal recognizes outstanding work in tropical health, especially relating...

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