Environmental Health graduate student, Kimberlee
Hall, has received notification from the ETSU
Graduate Council that her research proposal,
“Observational Survey for Toxoplasma gondii
in the Sinking Creek Watershed using PCR
Amplification,” has been approved for maximum
funding.
Ms. Hall’s proposal was approved to support
her work toward the thesis requirement in the
Environmental Health graduate program and will
allow her to integrate her research interests in
microbiology, parasitology and microbiology into
one thesis. The Sinking Creek Watershed was
selected for the study because of its EPA listing
as impaired, which indicates that it may be a
source of pathogen exposure. The watershed supports
the beneficial uses of agriculture including
livestock watering and wildlife, recreation, and
irrigation, all of which are modes of transmission
for Toxoplasma gondii, a disease causing
parasite.
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