Tag Archives: drug resistance

BEACON Researchers at Work: Evolution of plasmid host range

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Idaho postdoc Wesley Loftie-Eaton. I stumbled into the world of plasmids at my alma mater, the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. My advisor, Prof. D. E. Rawlings, … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Studying drug resistance in bacteria

Posted on February 24, 2014 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Idaho postdoc Silvia Smith. Humans, like any other organism, impact their environment as their natural history unfolds. As the result of selection for increased brain size and improved … Continue reading →

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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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