Not exact matches
Rothenburg;
microbiology doctoral students Chen Peng, China, and Sherry Haller, Topeka; and collaborators from the University of Florida, recently published a
study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America about the function of an immune - regulating protein from myxoma virus, called M156.
She focused on this exclusively, interviewing with various labs at UBC and finally deciding to complete her
doctoral studies with Brett Finlay in the department of
microbiology and immunology.
Nunya Chotiwan, co-author on the
study and a
doctoral candidate in
microbiology at CSU, said metabolites — lipids or fat, sugar, vitamins and hormones — seem to provide something that the viruses need to thrive.
He pursued the
doctoral degree after completing
studies at Cornell University, where he discovered a love for
microbiology.
While rare, the fungus has been lethal in about 25 % of the people in the U.S. who have developed infections, according to Edmond Byrnes III, a
doctoral student in molecular genetics and
microbiology at Duke University and one of the lead authors of a new
study about the fungus.