Kristin Burkholder and students present at Maine Biological and Medical Sciences Symposium

Kristin Burkholder
Kristin Burkholder

Kristin Burkholder, Ph.D., assistant professor of biological sciences, and three students from the Burkholder Lab presented at the Maine Biological and Medical Sciences Symposium (MBMSS), which was held April 28-29 at the Maine Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor.

Burkholder鈥檚 gave a research talk titled 鈥淓vasion and exploitation of macrophage phagosomal defenses by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus&苍产蝉辫;(惭搁厂础).鈥&苍产蝉辫;

Dylan Fletcher (Biological Sciences, 鈥17), Erica Lloyd (Medical Biology, 鈥18) and Cameron Russell (Biological Sciences, 鈥18) presented their research at the conference as well.  Fletcher presented a poster titled 鈥淟actic acid bacteria reduce virulence of Salmonella enterica Javiana and modulate host inflammatory response during intestinal epithelial infection,鈥 while Lloyd and Russell presented their work in a poster titled 鈥淓xtracts from marine macroalgae Ulva lactuca and Saccharina latissima inhibit growth of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.鈥