Linsey Yeager, Ph'D' Microbiology

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Linsey Yeager, Ph.D.Microbiology
ImmunologyMentor Johnny Peterson, Ph.D.

I investigated how human lung macrophages
internalize and destroy spores of Bacillus
anthracis. Anthrax hinders macrophages from
engulfing spores and alters the expression of
host genes in the lungs. This greatly expands our
knowledge of how this bacterium causes disease.