Pan-Fungal Essential Gene Discovery for Antifungal Targeting

Funding Agency: R21 AI11734101A1, NIH/NIAID

Title: Pan-Fungal Essential Gene Discovery for Antifungal Targeting

Status: Active

Period: 2015/07/01-2017/12/31

Role: Key Personnel

Grant Detail: The overall goal of this grant is to identify essential fungal genes using a capture probe strategy combined with next generation sequencing.


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