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Summer Hayek

Academic Title: Research Assistant Professor

Name: Summer Hayek

 

Department: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Department Website: http://hsc.unm.edu/som/bmb/

Institution: University of New Mexico

 

Address: 249 Basic Medical Sciences Bldg.
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131-1091

 

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Expertise: Delineate the interplay between V-ATPase and the Pma1p plasma membrane proton pump during cytosolic pH homeostasis in C. albicans and determine the relative contribution of cytosolic pH to fungal virulence.
Identify novel players involved in V-ATPase pathways in C. albicans; these may serve as possible anti-fungal drug targets that can be manipulated to treat life-threatening, drug-resistant fungal infections.

 

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