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"Lisa" Jang Eun Cho Rotating Graduate Student 315 CARL Building Box 3546 DUMC Durham, N.C. 27710 Phone: 919.684.2809 Fax: 919.684.5458 Email: jangeun.cho@duke.edu

I am originally from South Korea. I received my B.S. in Applied Biology and Chemistry at Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea. As an undergraduate, I worked in a Bioactive Natural Products lab. My research focused on extracting bioactive chemicals from the plant species, Kaempferia galanga, and assessing the activity of these chemicals as biocontrol agents against various mosquito species.

I graduated in 2008 and started working as a Research Assistant in Dr. Thomas Mitchell’s Fungal Biology and Parasitism lab at The Ohio State University. While there, I was exposed to the world of fungi, and I fell in love with it! The project that I participated in involved constructing T-vector systems for fungal transformation of the causative agent of rice blast, Magnaporthe grisea, and investigating the role of hydrophobin on pathogenicity of the species.

Currently, I am a first year graduate student in Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology. I completed my first lab rotation in the Heitman lab. I worked on characterizing the interaction between Mucor circinelloides infectious spores and mammalian alveolar macrophages and assessing the therapeutic roles of the drugs rapamycin and FK506 as antifungal strategies against fungal infections.  

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