Job Description The Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech seeks applicants for two (2) tenure-track research and teaching positions at the Assistant/Associate ...

Job Description The Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech seeks applicants for two (2) tenure-track research and teaching positions at the Assistant/Associate ...

I grew up in a small town, Wauseon, in the northwest corner of Ohio. Although I enjoyed science and math classes in high school, a career in research and academia never crossed my mind. I worked for s...

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Two tenure-track positions at the ranks of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in Virology.

Genetic factors aiding in the emergence of the opportunistic pathogen Clostridioides difficile are poorly understood. Infections with clade 3 (PCR ribotype 023) strains causing severe disease have increased since 2008. Here, we show RT023 strains have the unique ability to utilize xylitol, a sugar alcohol used as a food additive in humans and animals, due to the presence of a xylitol dehydrogenase (xdh) gene within a mobile genetic element (MGE). This xylitol utilization ability confers a fitness benefit in competition against other C. difficile ribotypes, as well as in a fecal community in vitro. Research investigating the underlying genetic factors driving the physiology of C. difficile will improve our understanding of colonization and hypervirulence.

Shigella/EIEC is a leading cause of global diarrheal deaths, especially in low-resource settings. Current interventions against childhood Shigella/EIEC infection focus on reducing exposure, such as th...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an emerging but understudied pathogen in urinary tract infections (UTIs). Given its resilience, adaptability, and the growing threat of multidrug resistance, P. aeruginosa re...

How does the body recognize viral infection? How do viruses engage the immune system during replication? These seemingly simple questions led me to study pattern recognition, a concept first proposed ...

Job Description The Laboratory of Neurotrauma Research at Virginia Tech is looking for highly motivated Postdoctoral Associates with expertise in Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, TBI/SCI or Immu...

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