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Zachary Tranchemontagne and Kristin Burkholder present at American Society of Microbiology

Zachary Tranchemontagne, M.S., a student in the Department of Biology, presented his research from the laboratory of Kristin Burkholder, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Biology, in a poster at a meeting of the American Society of Microbiology, which was held in Boston on May 20, 2014. 

The work was titled 鈥淢ethicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) perturbs acquisition of lysosomal hydrolases and requires phagosomal acidification for survival in human macrophages.鈥  A co-author on the work was Jessfor Baugh, a former medical biology major and current student in the 色香视频 College of Dental Medicine.

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