GSU Feature: What’s Killing America’s Bats?
LaTina Emerson of Georgia State University’s Public Relations recently interviewed Dr. Chris Cornelison for a feature story about white-nose syndrome, titled “What’s Killing America’s Bats?” For the past two years, Cornelison has been working with scientists at the U.S. Forest…
Undergraduate Student Spotlight
Summer Mashayekh Summer has been featured as Georgia State University’s Undergraduate Student Spotlight, for the month of July, 2015. Every month a new undergraduate is featured. Summer is a senior in the Biology department on a pre-veterinary track, and preparing…
WNS-Treated Bats Released into Wild
On Tuesday, May 19th, bats that were treated for white-nose syndrome (WNS) were released back into the wild. This past winter’s experimental treatment has been heralded a success by researchers and federal wildlife management agencies. This marks the first time…
WNS Interview in the Huffington Post
The Huffington Post recently published an article, “Bat Disease Epidemic Still Expanding Throughout North America” that details current white-nose syndrome impact and research. Read the full article at The Huffington Post The following is a correction to the article, in…
Cited in Conservation Biology and PLoS ONE
Our research article titled “Inhibition of Pseudogymnoascus destructans growth from conidia and mycelial extension by bacterially produced volatile organic compounds” was recently cited in two other journals. Maslo et al. wrote in the journal Conservation Biology, “A case study of…
2015 WNS Article in TheConversation
New ammunition in the battle to save North American bats from white-nose syndrome By Chris Cornelison, Georgia State University It’s been roughly eight years since white-nose syndrome (WNS) was first documented decimating bat populations in upstate New York. The disease…
Our Research in the News (2013/14)
Magazine articles featuring our antifungal research have recently been published in the Volume 64, No. 1, Jan/Feb/Mar 2014 edition of Society of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB) News and the Volume 31, No. 2, Summer 2013 edition of Bats Magazine….
