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’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.
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 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.
