{"id":2107,"date":"2020-09-29T13:42:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T13:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/?p=2107"},"modified":"2020-09-29T13:42:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T13:42:16","slug":"black-microbiologists-push-for-visibility-amid-a-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/black-microbiologists-push-for-visibility-amid-a-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Microbiologists Push for Visibility Amid a Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A week of talks, panels and discussions seeks to counter an impression \u201cthat this talent pool just does not exist.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Katherine J. Wu<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>A few days before her fifth-grade science fair, Ariangela Kozik awoke to the overwhelming scent of poultry past its due. It was exactly what the young scientist had been hoping for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhew,\u201d she recalled thinking at the time. \u201cThere is definitely something growing in here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She rushed into her kitchen, where a neat stack of glass Petri dishes awaited her, each filled with a gelatinous brown disk made of beef broth and sugar. Atop many of the cow-based concoctions was a smattering of what looked like shiny, cream-colored pimples. Each was a fast-ballooning colony, teeming with millions and millions of bacteria, including several from the swab of raw chicken juice she had dabbed on three days before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Kozik, then just 11, had set up an experiment to determine what brand of dish soap was best at killing bacteria. (The answer: Joy dishwashing liquid.) But her results yielded an even bigger reward: a lifelong love of microbes, exquisitely small organisms with an outsize impact on the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt felt like I had just discovered a new form of life,\u201d said Dr. Kozik, who is now a researcher at the University of Michigan, where she studies microbes that live in human lungs. \u201cIt was so cool.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/28\/science\/black-microbiology-week.html?campaign_id=2&amp;emc=edit_th_20200929&amp;instance_id=22606&amp;nl=todaysheadlines&amp;regi_id=58079267&amp;segment_id=39282&amp;user_id=5eda7937bfd95132eda5bf7f7514066d\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/28\/science\/black-microbiology-week.html?campaign_id=2&amp;emc=edit_th_20200929&amp;instance_id=22606&amp;nl=todaysheadlines&amp;regi_id=58079267&amp;segment_id=39282&amp;user_id=5eda7937bfd95132eda5bf7f7514066d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/09\/image-52.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2114\" width=\"210\" height=\"220\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/09\/image-51-1024x577.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2112\" width=\"722\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/09\/image-51-1024x577.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/09\/image-51-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/09\/image-51-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/09\/image-51.png 1031w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 722px) 100vw, 722px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Black in Microbiology    <a href=\"https:\/\/blackinmicrobiology.org\/#programming\">https:\/\/blackinmicrobiology.org\/#programming<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week of talks, panels and discussions seeks to counter an impression \u201cthat this talent pool &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-2107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2107"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2119,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions\/2119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}