Karen Beljan, BS '05, Environmental Engineering
Beljan, of Eden, New York, evaluated remediation alternatives to improve the water quality of Onondaga Lake, ultimately helping to develop a method to aerate the lake that would improve the water and ecosystem.
(Photo: KC Kratt, MFA '84)
Our research is focused on understanding how the bacterial pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae colonizes and infects the respiratory tract. We study both the factors bacteria need to colonize and infect (adherence, nutrient acquisition, toxins) as well as the strategies we use to protect ourselves from bacterial challenge (with special focus on how antimicrobial factors in breast milk kill bacteria).
Date Open: Apr 3, 2009 to Dec 30, 2012
Suggested Skill Set: Student should have completed lecture and laboratory courses in the basic sciences (chemistry, biology, physics, biochemistry, etc.) in which the student obtained "hands on" experience in bench-science technologies.
Compensation: Credit, Voluntary, Work Study
Professor(s): Anders Hakansson (andersh@buffalo.edu)
Department: Microbiology and Immunology
Address: 145 Biomedical Research Building
Phone: (716)829-6058
Website: http://www.hakanssonlab.com/index.a...