This summer has been an eventful and productive one for the Anderson Lab! Here is a brief overview of what we were up to:
People:
Joshua Wang – Joshua Wang joined us from Brown University where he worked with Dr. Anderson on a variety of bioinformatics projects.
Delanie Baker – Delanie Baker was with us for a few months through the NSF REU in the Department of Molecular Biology at The Ohio State University.
Conferences:
Midwest Neglected Infectious Disease 2017 – The MNID meeting is the only regional meeting in the Midwest that features forefront research focused on the pathogenesis of fungal and parasitic diseases. This meeting fills an important void, as the parasitic and fungal diseases, while crucially important; do not receive sufficient “press” at many major biology meetings. Over the past years the meetings have included 100-130 scientists from seven states; Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, and Missouri.
Posters:
Matthew Dunn – POSTER AWARD – Functional diversification accompanies telomere-associated (TLO) gene family expansion in Candida albicans
Robert Fillinger – Development of quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping in Candida albicans