Read this story from the Emerging Pathogens Institute on results from Dr. Tony Maurelli’s lab that solves a quirky mystery about how Chlamydia gets nutrients AND evades its host’s immune system with genes that perform double duty. Click the link here! Department: Department of Environmental and…
A study led by Dr. Sarah McKune on the impact of a culturally-tailored behavior change strategy on egg consumption in young children in Burkina Faso has completed, and results are forthcoming. They are pleased to announce publication of their protocol, study design, and baseline findings in a new article published…
Dr. Eric Coker published a timely paper on the “Effects of Air Pollution on COVID-19 Related Mortality in Northern Italy” which shows that the spatial pattern of long term ambient (outdoor) fine particulate matter (or PM2.5) concentrations is strongly related to the spatial pattern of excess deaths related to the…
Dr. Afsar Ali co-authored a paper on the pandemic spread of Vibrio cholera that has received the designation ‘Highly cited paper’ by Web of Science and is one of the top 1% of papers of similar age in the field of clinical medicine. Read the paper at this link…
Project Title: Building Resilience to PFAS Exposure on Vulnerable Coastal Communities Prone to Extreme Weather Floods: Brevard County FL as a Case Study Investigators: Deliz Quiñones, Katherine (PI); Coker, Eric; Bonzongo, Jean Claude; Bowden, John; Jutla, Antarpreet Background: Over the past few decades per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) contamination has grown…
Electronic decision support and diarrhoeal disease guideline adherence (mHDM): a cluster randomised controlled trial Dr. Eric Nelson leads one of the largest cluster randomized control trials on clinical decision-support during a global pandemic. After years of research, partners in Bangladesh addressed…
The One with the Pivot In a new, short article, EGH faculty member, Dr. Rachel Yoho, reflects on the Spring 2020 semester, including the rapid transition from in-person to remote teaching. This work considers the academic “pivot” in higher education due…
Dr. Andy Kane, Makyba Charles and his team collected seafood consumption data from “coastal, high-end consumers of Gulf seafood,” using a survey instrument that is detailed in the below validation study. This paper is part of a series of manuscripts that covers the risk assessment of Gulf seafood after…
Dr. Afsar Ali, Research Associate Professor for EGH and the Emerging Pathogens Institute, and Dr. Eric Nelson, Assistant Professor, were published in PNAS for their research in “Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae evolution and establishment of reservoirs in aquatic ecosystems.” In the article from EPI below, read more about his research and…
On February 18th, 2020, Dr. Anthony Maurelli’s research, “Chlamydial MreB Directs Cell Division and Peptidoglycan Synthesis in Escherichia coli in the Absence of FtsZ Activity,” was published in American Society for Microbiology’s mBio journal. Through the work done in his lab, Dr. Maurelli and his team were…
