Uncovering the Secrets of Tularemia, the "Rabbit Fever"
Sunday, February 16, 2014 - 17:30
in Health & Medicine
Tularemia, aka "rabbit fever," is endemic in the northeastern United States, and is considered to be a significant risk to biosecurity -- much like anthrax or smallpox -- because it has already been weaponized in various regions of the world. At the 58th Annual Biophysical Society Meeting, Geoffrey K. Feld, a researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will describe his work to uncover the secrets of the bacterium Francisella tularensis, which causes tularemia.