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

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’s gave a research talk titled “Evasion and exploitation of macrophage phagosomal defenses by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).” 

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