Microbiology and Beer
The Atlanta Science Festival is around the corner again (March 15 – 25, 2017), and this week they’ve featured our collaborative work with Orpheus Brewing in an article, The Awesome Science of Everyday Life: The Science Behind Beer with Orpheus…
WNS Treatment Research in the News
We announced earlier this year we began collaborating with federal agencies and a private land owner to develop an integrated disease management (IDM) strategy at Black Diamond Tunnel, for treating and preventing white-nose syndrome. Recently, several news agencies featured our…
2016 SIMB Conference
This year’s annual Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB) conference was held in New Orleans, Louisiana, from July 24th through 29th. Founded in 1949, SIMB is a nonprofit, international association dedicated to the advancement of microbiological sciences, especially as…
WNS Hits the West Coast
What wasn’t expected for another decade, white-nose syndrome has appeared on the west coast of the US, near North Bend, Washington. From an article by Dr. Chris Cornelison of Georgia State University, for The Conversation, The news hit the WNS…
4-Year WNS Treatment at Black Diamond Tunnel
Georgia State University researchers Chris Cornelison, Kyle Gabriel, and Sidney Crow of Georgia State University received bat conservation funding provided by Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Company (Transco) to begin a collaborative, 4-year project to develop and implement white-nose syndrome treatment methods…
WNS Research on WSB-TV
Premiering February 29th, 2016, Biologists predict 95 percent decline in Georgia bats aired on WSB-TV Channel 2 Action News (Atlanta), featuring the work of Georgia State University researchers in their continued work to develop white-nose syndrome (WNS) treatment methods and…
WNS Research on CBS46
Chris Cornelison, a post-doctoral research associate, and Kyle Gabriel, a Ph.D. candidate, were featured on a CBS46 (Atlanta) news piece, Georgia faces one of its worst mosquito seasons, for their research involving the control of white-nose syndrome. Kyle has been…
Our Research inspires Art
Arpita Choudhury, of The Science Of Illustration, after reading of our research involving the bacterium Rhodococcus rhodochrous being used both as an agent for delaying the ripening of fruit and as an antifungal agent to treat bat white-nose syndrome, was…
Grant Awarded from FightWNS
On December 31st, FightWNS awarded Kyle Gabriel, a PhD candidate in Dr. Sidney Crow’s laboratory, a $5,000 grant for his white-nose syndrome research proposal, “Development of a Device for Treating White-Nose Syndrome Using Naturally-Occurring Volatile Compounds.” FightWNS, a 501(c)(3) public…
