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Joy Doran-Peterson was featured in a podcast entitled ”The Microbiology of the Bioeconomy” which was produced by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM).  The podcast aired on Monday, June 3rd, as part of the latest episode of the "Microbes After Hours" series – a series of happy hours…

Congratulations to Alexandra Howell and Laurel Hire for being selected to receive Office of International Education (OIE) Education Abroad Scholarships to participate in study abroad programs this summer!

Vincent Starai was recently awarded over $1.5 million by the National Institutes of Health to investigate the mechanism by which Legionella pneumophila, the causative agent of Legionnaires’ disease, avoids host defense systems.

Researchers from the Department of Microbiology at the University of Georgia discovered important genetic clues about the history of Archaea and the origins of life in a pioneering study in which they identified genes required for survival of Methanococcus maripaludis.