Event Detail (Archived)

Bullets from a Gun: Engineered Antimicrobial Peptides from a Phage Lysin to Fight Acinetobacter baumannii

  • This event already took place in April 2017
  • Carson Family Auditorium (CRC)

Event Details

Type
Thesis Presentations
Speaker(s)
Mya Thandar, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University
Open to
Public
Reception
Tea, 2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m., Lower Level Greenberg Building (CRC)
Contact
Marta Delgado
Phone
(212) 327-8087
Sponsor
Marta Delgado
(212) 327-8087
delgadm@rockefeller.edu

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