Currently, Dr. DeShazer is a senior microbiologist for the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in the bacteriology division.
Dr. DeShazer completed his bachelor of general studies in microbiology and human biology at the University of Kansas, and his doctorate in microbiology and immunology at the University of Arizona.
Dr. DeShazer’s research focuses on Burkholderia mallei, a gram-negative bacillus that is the causative agent of glanders. It is a highly adapted parasite of equines and cannot persist in nature outside of its host.
His seminar is titled “Type VI Secretion in the Category B Select Agent Burkholderia pseudomallei.”
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