Professor Terri Camesano is the lead organizer and co-director of NATO’s Advanced Research Workshop series titled “Nanotechnology to Aid Chemical and Biological Defense” and takes place September 22-26 in Antalya, Turkey. The workshop’s focus is on nanoscale science and technology as applied to pathogens like Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Francisella tularensis (tularemia), and Bacillus anthracis, the bacterium that causes anthrax. The goal is to eventually engineer new materials that can detect and defend against many biological and chemical agents at the atomic and molecular levels.
Professor Camesano, is presenting a talk about the potential to use naturally occurring antimicrobial peptides to detect biological threats and IGERT fellow Todd Alexander is also presenting at the workshop.
