Research Highlights Archive

NIH grants

Dr. Glenn Dorsam and Dr. Jane Schuh were each recently awarded an NIH grant to study allergic fungal asthma. The grants will fund an interdisciplinary training program for undergraduate and graduate students who will use a mouse model to understand: (1) how cell signaling influences recruitment of eosinophils to the lung (a hallmark of asthma) and (2) the whole-body changes that occur during the progression of asthma in mice. The awards will also support a seminar series with prominent speakers/scientists and student travel to regional and national meetings. Image: CDC

AEM paper

Dr. Peter Bergnolz’s January 2013 paper in Applied and Environmental Microbiology explores two things: (1) the prevalence, persistence, and diversity of food-borne pathogens in fresh produce fields in New York State and (2) the landscape and meteorological factors that predict the presence of these microbes. Image: CDC/Amanda Mills