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With a newly-obtained fiery red blood meal visible through her transparent abdomen, the now heavy female Aedes aegypti mosquito takes flight.

Clostridium botulinum growing on egg yolk agar showing the lipase reaction.

An atypical enlarged lymphocyte found in the blood smear from a HPS patient.

(a) An atypical enlarged lymphocyte found in the blood smear from a HPS patient. (b)Burkholderia psudeomallei grown on sheep blood agar for 24 hours.

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The PSWRCE Eighth Annual meeting will be held in Squaw Valley, CA, July 29 - 31. Registration is now open. Register

A Medicinal Chemistry and Preclinical Development Workshop is being offered by the New England RCE Friday, September 21, 2012 in Boston. The workshop will provide a basic introduction to medicinal chemistry and preclinical development of small molecule therapeutics. There is no fee but registration is required. Click here for registration and more information.

Two PSWRCE projects are featured on the NIAID RCE website.
- Dr. Benhur Lee's (UCLA) work on a Broad Spectrum Antiviral.
- Dr. Christopher Hayes's (UCSB), Dr. Peggy Cotter's (UNC), and Dr. David Low's (UCSB) Study on how Bacteria communicate.

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