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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&�Բ�����;(�Ѹ鳧��).”&�Բ�����;

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.”