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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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Emma Troth

Trainee Spotlight: Emma Troth

Posted on Jul 23, 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] Emma Troth, a Ph.D. trainee in Dennis Kyle's laboratory, is entering her fourth year at UGA. She is originally from Eureka, Illinois, and attended Bradley University where she majored in Biology with a minor in Ethics. While...

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Noelia Lander

Noelia Lander receives research award

Posted on Apr 9, 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] Noelia Lander, a cellular biologist and postdoctoral researcher in Roberto Docampo's laboratory, has received the 2020 Postdoctoral Award from the UGA Research Foundation. Lander has used her research to advance understanding of a dangerous parasite affecting millions of...

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Trainee Spotlight: Edwin Pierre Louis

Posted on Mar 23, 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]   Edwin Pierre Louis is a pre-doctoral trainee in the laboratory of Dr. Drew Etheridge. Originally from Haiti, he immigrated to the US to attend the University of Florida (UF), where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science...

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Visiting Scholar Fellow: Fernando Sanchez-Valdéz

Posted on Aug 28, 2019 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. Fernando Sanchez-Valdéz, from Salta, Argentina, completed a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2014. After his Ph.D., he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in...

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Grad school ready

Posted on Oct 2, 2018 in CTEGD Blog
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by Camie Williams   [caption id="attachment_4778" align="aligncenter" width="810"] PREP@UGA Scholar Jilarie Santos Santiago, center, consults with her faculty mentor Stephen Hajduk, left, and postdoctoral mentor Michael Cipriano. (Photo by Dorothy Kozlowski)[/caption] PREP@UGA Scholars program trains next generation of life sciences researchers. As an undergraduate student in Maryland, Ian Liyayi planned to...

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Trainee Spotlight: Stephen Vella

Posted on Sep 23, 2018 in CTEGD Blog
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Stephen Vella is a Ph.D. trainee in Silvia Moreno's laboratory. He is originally from Indiana where he received his B.S. in microbiology at Indiana University. In his first year at UGA, he was awarded an Excellence in Graduate Recruitment Award and a Provost’s Scholars of...

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Trainee Spotlight: Josh Butler

Posted on Sep 18, 2018 in CTEGD Blog
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New T32 trainee Josh Butler is a third year Ph.D. student in Belen Cassera's laboratory. He is from Front Royal, Virginia and completed his B.S. in chemistry at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Butler decided to pursue his graduate degree at the University of Georgia...

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Amazing Students: Trisha Dalapati

Posted on Aug 13, 2018 in CTEGD Blog
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[caption id="attachment_4722" align="aligncenter" width="600"] One of the reasons Trisha Dalapati chose to attend UGA was because it has an environment and curriculum valuing a balance between the liberal arts and science. (Photo by Andrew Davis Tucker/UGA)[/caption] Trisha Dalapati has immersed herself in everything UGA offers, from...

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