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Lab shipping address: 5200 Lake Rd, Merced, CA 95340 Biomedical Science and Physics (BSP) 474 Dr. Hoyer’s Email: khoyer2@ucmerced.edu

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Our research focuses on the evolution of antimicrobial resistance. Antimicrobial resistance is a serious problem affecting thousands of lives each year. Recent outbreaks of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have illustrated the severity of the resistance problem. Reports in the popular press (New York Times, Oct 16, 2007) have identified MRSA as a greater health threat than HIV. However, the health threats posed by MRSA are only a small fraction of the antimicrobial resistance problem. The causative agents of deadly diseases such as tuberculosis and pneumonia are also becoming resistant to nearly all existing antibiotics as well. Our lab is investigating several approaches to combat the threat of resistance.

1. Characterize vascular differentiation. The word endothelial progenitor cell is used often in the literature, yet this cell is abstractly defined. The word seems to apply to any cell that has differentiated beyond a stem cell, but has not yet become a mature endothelial cell. I would like to...