MIMG Students Present Research Papers at International Meeting

Christina Savage and Will Arnold, MIMG doctoral students, have been invited to present results of their research in Vienna, Austria, at the International Conference on Lyme Borreliosis. Ms. Savage will give a talk on her studies on how the Borrelia burgdorferi SpoVG protein controls bacterial replication, and Mr. Arnold will present a poster describing his work on gene regulation by the bacterial master regulator, BpuR. Both are students in the laboratory of Professor Brian Stevenson, who will also present an invited talk on the laboratory¹s research. The ICLB is the world¹s largest conference on Lyme disease and other tick borne infections, and will be held in Vienna on September 27-30, 2015.