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SUMMARY:RABLS Talk - Dr. Maria Castillo - Tales of Water 
 and Sand: When a Molecular Biologist Gets Out 
 of the Lab
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 Dr. Maria Castillo from New Mexico State University. 
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 Title:\n
 Tales of water and sand: When a molecular biologist 
 gets out of the lab.\n
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 Abstract:\n
 What makes an organism successful and competitive 
 in an environment? What is needed for an animal 
 to be an efficient vector for disease transmission? 
 What is the role of the immune system in these 
 processes? To answers some of these questions 
 my laboratory group focuses on two topics: the 
 ecoimmunology of the freshwater snail Physela 
 cuta in relation to its invasive capacity, and 
 the desert-adapted kissing bug Triatoma rubida 
 as a trypanosome vector of Chagas disease in New 
 Mexico.\n\n

LOCATION:Wriston Auditorium
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