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ASM 2008. David and Tim and Dr. McNealy will be traveling to Boston the first week of June for the American Society of Microbiology General Meeting. David and Tim will present a poster of their work on Francisella biofilms. Watch for pictures here after the meeting.
*Update* ASM 2008 was a success. David and Tim had lots of visitors and very positive feedbak during the poster presentation! See our photos page for pictures at the poster session and more.

Graduation 2008. one of our lab members is moving on - Tim Furphy graduated on May 9th with degree in Microbiology. He was also awarded the Departmental Faculty Award for Microbiology Seniors - this awarded is given to a senior microbiology student nominated by the faculty who has been exceptional in research and classwork. Tim will begin a Masters in Public Health program in Pittsburgh in August. Congrats Tim!

SC Life - April 2008. David and Daniel presented research at the annual SC Life meeting in Columbia in April. Both the oral presentations and posters generated pleny of interest. It was a strong ending to a successful year of research

November 7, 2007

New Creative Inquiry Opportunity!

Biofilms and Nanoparticles

Join in the project to investigate the meeting of two hot fields in science. Whether your interests lie in microbiology, ecology, physics or engineering there will be something in this project for you!

Interested students should contact one of the instructors listed below for more information:
Dr. Mike Henson: hhenson@clemson.edu
Dr. Tamara McNealy: tmcneal@clemson.edu
Dr. Steve Klaine: sklaine@clemson.edu

Both David and Daniel have been awarded the chance to participate in the SC Life Undergraduate Program. This award will allow both to participate in a workshop to develop their presentation skills and another weekend to present their work in front of their peers. We look forward to good things out of both research projects.

HHMI International Research Experience

January 2007
David was recently awarded the SC Life HHMI International Research Experience Grant. The grant will allow David to travel to Croatia this summer and spend 6 weeks working in the lab of Dr. Marina Santic at the University of Rijeka. She also works on the bacteria Francisella tularensis as the McNealy lab does - but Dr. Santic concentrates her work on unraveling the mechanisms of cell death including apoptosis, pyroptosis and autophagy. David will benefit from the Santic lab expertise in confocal laser scanning and electron microscopy in dissecting various aspects of manipulations of the cell by F. tularensis. Congratulations David!"