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WSU hosts seminar on responses to microbiota

SHERIDAN ROBBINS, Evergreen reporter • January 20, 2024

The Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology department at WSU held an “Advances in Immunology Seminar” presented by Dr. Michelle Massaquoi Jan. 11, with the purpose of discussing the mechanisms of a...

Roberta O’Connor, associate professor in WSU’s Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology, extracts shipworms from wood in the Philippines. Shipworms contain bacteria that produce useful compounds for drugs.

Bacterial compound may treat entire class of parasites

EMMA LEDBETTER, Evergreen news editor • July 2, 2020

A compound produced by bacteria in shipworms may help WSU researchers create a drug treatment for a class of parasites called apicomplexans.  “This is the only drug we know of that targets this whole...

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