Dylan Shropshire receives Kaufman New Investigator Award to support research

Funding will support research into Wolbachia bacteria and its potential to fight mosquito-borne diseases worldwide

Dylan Shropshire, assistant professor of biological sciences, has been named a recipient of a New Investigator Award from the Charles E. Kaufman Foundation.

The two-year, $150,000 grant will support Shropshire's research into endosymbiont-host relationships by examining how Wolbachia bacteria switch hosts.

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