IOB Student Receives Research Grant and Defends Masters Thesis

IOB graduate student Duo Peng has been awarded an Innovative and Interdisciplinary Research Grant from the UGA Graduate School.

In addition, Duo successfully defended his masters thesis, “Frequent Intra-family Recombination in the Largest Repository of Antigen Variants in the Protozoan Pathogen Trypanosoma cruzi“.

Duo will continue his research in the Tarleton lab, while pursuing a doctoral degree in Cellular Biology.

Congratulations for both the grant award and the thesis defense!