UCF, MIT Designing Technology to Fight Bacterial Infections, Improve Aquaculture Farming The team, which has received a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation, is working with shrimp farms in Ecuador to build new microbial communities for aquaculture that will improve shrimp health.
UCF Scientist Uncovers Roots of Antibiotic Resistance By understanding how mutations occur, researchers can better understand and develop therapeutics to combat resistant infections.
Infectious Disease Researcher Is UCF’s 1st Burroughs Wellcome Fund Awardee Assistant Professor Salvador Almagro-Moreno earned a $500,000 award that will be used to examine how potential infectious diseases can impact human health.
UCF’s Sherlock Holmes of Microbiology: Salvador Almagro-Moreno UCF’s national expert on flesh-eating bacteria is unraveling the mystery of why some bacteria remain harmless while others go rogue threatening human life.
UCF Reach for the Stars 2022 Honorees Are Pioneers in Their Fields of Study From creating resilient communities that can withstand natural disasters to educating the public through fiction that explains real science, this year’s honorees are using research to help create a brighter future.
Clues Emerge: How Harmless Bacteria Go Rogue Turning into Deadly Flesh-eating Variants A new UCF-led study reveals how the environment and certain genetic traits play a critical role in the process that trigger bacteria to become human pathogens.
UCF’s 5 NSF CAREER Grant Recipients Making Breakthroughs in Healthcare and Engineering Awardees share common characteristics: curiosity, determination, a love of research, and mentoring students.
Research in 60 Seconds Video: Marine Bacteria and Infectious Diseases Assistant Professor of Medicine Salvador Almagro-Moreno researches how the evolution of marine bacteria can help predict infectious outbreaks and be used to design treatments against these threats.
UCF College of Sciences Researchers Join Project to Fight Animal-borne Diseases The goal is to gain a deeper understanding of zoonotic threats, which may include COVID-19, in order to better respond to them.
Getting Ahead Of The Next Pandemic: UCF Researcher Named To National Think Tank Salvador Almagro-Moreno was chosen because of his expertise on emergent marine pathogens, which are often overlooked when dealing with global health threats.
