Behind the masks: Sewing project brings a department together
Volunteers in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology sewed over 1,000 face masks for employees to wear at work during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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‘We have to try it’: Tuberculosis expert explores coronavirus vaccine research
The team is selecting pieces of proteins from the virus that are known to elicit an immune response against COVID-19.
Germ Theory: A veterinarian and bovine tuberculosis
CSU Magazine: Dr. George Glover initiated infectious disease research, a premier enterprise at the college that became Colorado State University.
World TB Day invites future scientists into a real lab
World TB Day at CSU offers high school students the opportunity to learn about tuberculosis as a global health problem and gain hands-on experience alongside researchers working to halt to the disease’s spread.
CSU lands $1.2 million in NIH funding to advance work on a new tuberculosis vaccine
At CSU, the research will include a multidisciplinary team of at least 20 researchers, students and staff.
World TB Day: Microbiology labs open doors to area high school students
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.
Morning Ag Clips: CSU research enterprise hits $374.9 million
Brian Foy, a professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, received a National Institutes of Health grant in the amount of $3.6 million for a randomized clinical trial in Burkina Faso.
Coloradoan: Friends, family remember beloved CSU professor who started world-renowned lab
As John Spencer looked out at the friends, family, colleagues, former students and rec league soccer players gathered at a local sports bar Thursday to toast to Ian Orme, he knew one thing: "He would have loved this... He had a big heart. He cared about everybody.”
Science News: Leprosy lurks in armadillos in Brazil’s Amazon
Brazilians who hunt or eat armadillos are at a higher risk of catching leprosy than people who don’t interact with the animals, a new study finds.
Quartz: Armadillos are making Brazil’s leprosy problem worse
“Armadillos are kind of a delicacy—think about it like lobster,” says John Spencer, an immunologist who has researched leprosy for years at Colorado State University and led the study.