A tight shot of a microscope with a soft orange gradient layer.

UNDERGRADUATE LAB EXPERIENCE II: Undergraduate Research in Faculty Labs

In 2001 Heather Vlamakis coauthored a paper detailing the spread of antibiotic resistance among bacteria in the human body.  It was one of the first publications to show that bacteria can share antibiotic resistance genes in natural settings, and Vlamakis did her work as an undergraduate...