Dr. Arturo Casadevall of John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Discusses Fungi -88


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May 07 2019 39 mins  
Fungi, radiation shielding, and current microbiology research are just a few of the topics we get into on this episode of the Learning with Lowell science, biotech, and space podcast.

Fortunately for you all Dr. Arturo has a wiki page which I will cite below.

"Arturo Casadevall is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor[1] of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and the Alfred and Jill Sommer Professor and Chair of the W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.[2] He is an internationally recognized expert in infectious disease research, with a focus on fungal and bacterial pathogenesis and basic immunology of antibody structure-function.

Biography

Arturo Casadevall was born in Sancti SpíritusCuba in 1957. He moved to Elmhurst, QueensNew York City in 1968 and became a U.S. citizen in 1976. Casadevall received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry from Queens College, City University of New York in 1979, and his M.S. and Ph.D in Biochemistry from New York University in 1983 and 1984.