After five years of deep genomic analysis, Garry Nolan, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford, and Atul Butte, MD, PhD, director of the Institute for Computational Health Sciences at the University of California - San Francisco, have pinpointed the mutations responsible for the anomalous specimen. (sciencedaily.com)
Anti-flu peptides could become handy when vaccines are unavailable, in the case of a new pandemic strain, or when circulating strains become resistant to current drugs, says senior author Joshy Jacob, PhD, associate professor of microbiology and immunology at Emory Vaccine Center and Emory University School of Medicine. (sciencedaily.com)
Dr. Kizhatil earned a PhD in microbiology and immunology at the University of Tennessee, Memphis, where he uncovered a new role for the cellular cytoskeleton in murine retrovirus entry. (brightfocus.org)