Patenaude recognized at International Gordon Conference on Streptococcal Biology
Kathryn Patenaude, a Ph.D. candidate in biomedical sciences from Presque Isle, Maine, won an outstanding poster award at the International Gordon Conference on Streptococcal Biology this August.
The poster, titled “Investigating the interaction of Streptococcus agalactiae and Candida albicans in vitro and in vivo,” featured research Patenaude is conducting in the lab of Melody Neely, associate professor and chair of the Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences. Neely’s lab explores how pathogens, specifically streptococcus, evades immune systems and causes disease.