On crisp fall days in Wisconsin, farmers throughout the state harvest crops like field corn. UW-Madison scientists are looking for alternatives that result in a reduction in fertilizer applications by using bacteria that thrive on the gel of aerial roots of corn.
An R21 from the National Institutes of Health will help assistant professor Ophelia Venturelli and her co-investigator Daniel Amador-Noguez, an associate professor of bacteriology, tease apart the microbial interactions and metabolites impacting C. difficile growth.
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Recently featured as an “instructional highlight,” associate professor Valentín Picasso Risso is a member of which CALS department? Agronomy
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Which biochemistry professor was awarded an Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant from the National Institutes of Health? Ophelia Venturelli
Venturelli Lab Receives R21 to Research Antibiotic Resistant Genes
Biochemistry Assistant Professor Ophelia Venturelli has been awarded an Exploratory/ Developmental Research Grant (R21) by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The award is in support of the development of new methods to uncover associations between antibiotic resistance genes and microbial hosts in the human gut microbiome.
The rise and spread of bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics is a growing global health crisis. Antibiotic resistant strains can harbor multiple antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), which in turn can confer resistance to multiple antibiotics. This increasing resistance creates a major challenge in combating infectious diseases