Brandon Webster speaks on his research on food spoilage molds that can survive high temperatures, and his findings on how different strains vary in their genetics and growth at the Sixth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium for Life Sciences August 8.
Webster, a senior at Humboldt State University, was part of this summer’s Microbial Friends & Foes Research Experience for Undergraduates program that provides training in the concepts and experimental approaches central to understanding microbial interactions with eukaryotic hosts.
Students in the program work with faculty mentors in the Plant Pathology & Plant-Microbe Biology Section (Webster worked in the Hodge Lab) and the Department of Microbiology.