Danara Flores is a tuberculosis survivor and was the keynote speaker at Colorado State University’s annual celebration of World Tuberculosis Day, which promotes tuberculosis research by engaging high school students looking for a future in disease research.
A team of researchers has developed technology that can detect small amounts of antibodies in a person's blood.
A team of international scientists led by Professor Brian Foy found that they were able to reduce cases of malaria in children in Burkina Faso by 20 percent, using a drug called ivermectin.
High school students can meet CSU researchers, clinicians, and public-health officials who work on TB in humans and natural animal hosts, 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Monday, March 25.
The deadliest tick-borne disease has Colorado roots. Powassan virus—which is fatal in 10 percent of cases and leaves half of its victims with brain damage—hasn’t been detected in a Coloradan. But scientists first isolated it from a tick found along the Cache la Poudre River in 1952, six years before the first known human case (in Ontario), says Powassan expert Dr. Gregory Ebel of Colorado State University.
Sarah Lion is grateful for three people in particular: Liz Hysen, her academic counselor; and University Distinguished Teaching Scholar Erica Suchman and Marcela Henao-Tamayo, faculty members in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology. Henao-Tamayo employed Lion as a lab assistant, allowing Lion to continue working while completing her biology degree.
Kirty Krieger says she decided to major in microbiology in the same way Harry Potter decided to become a wizard. “The major chose me,” Krieger says, after she tried on several other hats at Colorado State University.
“Most of the words I used in this project were science words, so a lot of the songs are about science.” -microbiology graduate student/musician Jackson Watkins
Watkins has joined with veterinary chronic pain specialist Rob Landry, who owns the Colorado Center for Animal Pain Management in Westminster, to launch the IL-10 research study in dogs.
A team from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and CSU was recognized with one of the 2018 CO-LABS Governor’s Awards for High-Impact Research.