Armed with two new grants, School of Pharmacy Assistant Professor Jason Peters continues his quest to find new targets for the hardest-to-treat bacterial infections.
CRISPR
Gene-Editing Tool Now Being Used to Develop Better Antibiotics
Assistant Professor Jason Peters created a new technique, known as Mobile-CRISPRi, that allows scientists to screen for antibiotic function in a wide range of pathogenic bacteria.
Building Better Bacteria for Bioenergy Production
Assistant Professor Jason Peters receives a grant from the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center to re-engineer bacteria to produce biofuel.
New Assistant Professor Jason Peters Wins NIH Career Transition Award
The National Institutes of Health is helping Assistant Professor Jason Peters get to work developing CRISPR-based tools to uncover genetic functions crucial to the life and reproduction of pathogenic bacteria.