The focus of the experiment that was conducted during the summer of 2021 was to determine the effects of chlamydia on human host cells, specifically in regards to apoptosis. Apoptosis, commonly referred to as “programmed cell death”, is triggered in high stress environments in order to stop pathogens from spreading without causing inflammation in the […]
A06-P: Prevention of Apoptosis By Chlamydia
Pamela Lewis, a student of Dr. Joseph Carlin’s lab of the Microbiology Department and Director of the Mallory-Wilson Center for Healthcare Education at Miami University, is a microbiology major who is interested in studying Chlamydia trachomatis. She is interested in seeing how HeLa cells infected with C. trachomatis are avoiding apoptosis. Because of this, she […]