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Dietrich School Biologist Shows Phage Attacks in New Light

Graham Hatfull looking at a test tube in a laboratory

As antibacterial resistance continues to render obsolete the use of some antibiotics, some have turned to bacteria-killing viruses--bacteriophages, or phages, for short--to treat acute infections as well as some chronic illnesses. Graham Hatfull, the Eberly Family Professor of Biotechnology in the Dietrich School, has just discovered how a specific mutation in a bacterium results in phage resistance. The results were published February 23, in the journal Nature Microbiology. 

Dietrich School Faculty Receive Kaufman Foundation Awards for New Initiatives

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Andrea Berman, an associate professor in the Dietrich School's Department of Biological Sciences, and Michael Hatridge, associate professor in the school's Department of Physics and Astronomy, have received two-year, $300,000 Kaufman New Initiative Research Grants.

Berman, along with co-investigator Judith Yanowitz, received funding for the project, "Translation regulation of TMG-capped mRNAs – an evolutionary remnant of trans-splicing?"