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Dr. Qingyun Liu, Assistant Professor in the Departments of Genetics and Microbiology & Immunology, has been selected as a recipient of the NIH/NIAID DP2 New Innovator Award. Dr. Liu’s project, titled “Population Genomics–Guided Dissection of the Bacterial Genetic Basis of Tuberculosis Transmissibility”, aims to uncover how Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) strains evolve to become highly transmissible...

Each year, the Postdoctoral Awards for Research Excellence (PARE) are given in recognition of the research promise demonstrated by individual postdoctoral scholars. Meet this year’s recipients and learn about their areas of interest. The PARE awards are open to postdoctoral scholars in all disciplines. Each recipient receives a monetary award...

Inside the human body, many enemies hide. Brian Conlon hunts one of those lurking pathogens and is looking for better ways to kill them. Persister bacteria, they’re called. Some cause deadly infections. Even though an antibiotic wipes out the majority of bacteria causing an infection, a small percentage survives. Those persisters escape...