Robert Fillinger was recently awarded Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (Parent F31) for his project entitled: “Quantitative genetic approaches to Candida albicans oropharyngeal pathogenesis”
Project Narrative:
Here, quantitative trait loci (QTL) approaches are developed for parasexual species and applied to identification of genetic differences between Candida albicans strains governing differential abilities to filament or damage epithelial surfaces during oropharyngeal candidiasis and filamentation.