About Lalitha Paddireddi, 2008 Sarachek Award Recipient
Lalitha Peddireddi is a student of Dr. Roman Ganta and works in the Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology. Ms. Peddireddi is evaluating proteomics and transcriptomics of Ehr-lichia chaffeensis, an intracellular bacterium that is transmitted by ticks and is becoming an in-creasingly serious problem in humans. The genes in which she is particularly interested encode a portion of the proteins on the outer membrane and are differentially expressed in the tick and vertebrate host. Ms. Peddireddi has been at KSU since 2004 and has two published articles on this topic and has made presentations at two national professional meetings. She plans to use the funds she has been awarded to, among other things, attend some of the professional development workshops offered by the American Society for Microbiology for young scientists.
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