Bree Aldridge is no traditional microbiologist—she’s a bioengineer by training, with talents for intense computational modeling and mathematics that have already helped her break at least one new paradigm in the TB field. And now, with an interdisciplinary team of engineers-turned-biologists, and biologists newly trained in heavy computation, she has joined the vanguard in a new era of tuberculosis research, where her contributions could revolutionize how this deadly disease is understood and treated.
Tufts Now recently spoke to Carol Kumamoto, a microbiologist at Tufts School of Medicine, about her research on C. albicans and some of the surprising implications that this work has for understanding the balances of bacteria and fungi in our guts.
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New narrowly focused approach shows how long-range connections between nerve cells lock brain plasticity into place; could advance treatments for disorders such as autism
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Tufts medical professor co-wrote policy saying that corporal punishment harms children and doesn’t work
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The School of Medicine neuroscience researcher is the inaugural Kenneth and JoAnn G. Wellner Professor
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Veterans in the Tufts community—faculty, staff, students, and alumni—talk about what being in the armed services means to them
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Neural models could improve understanding of neurodegenerative and other diseases, and facilitate discovery of treatments