Tag Archives: disease

BEACON Researchers at Work: The not-so-inscrutable HIV

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU postdoc Aditi Gupta. It all started in 1981. A few patients suffering from unusual opportunistic infections, that immune system normally easily takes care of, walked into doctors’ offices and nobody … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Does sociality influence disease resistance?

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Katy Califf. I’m generally interested in how genetic diversity and behavior influence each other in wild populations of mammals, particularly in the realm of disease ecology. More … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Linking microbial interactions to disease

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Idaho graduate student Daniel Beck.  I am interested in microbial communities for a number of reasons. First, microbial communities are found nearly everywhere, from soil to the surfaces … Continue reading →

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