Charles M. Baugh Lectureship set for Dec. 8

Karin Peterson, Ph.D.

The Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine will host the Charles M. Baugh Lecture in the Basic Medical Sciences at 4 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 8, in the Medical Sciences Building first-floor auditorium. The lecture will also be available via Zoom: https://southalabama.zoom.us/j/99901977833

The lecture, hosted by Meghan Hermance, Ph.D., is sponsored by the Department of Microbiology and Immunology.

The distinguished speaker is Karin Peterson, Ph.D., chief of the Neuroimmunology Section of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rocky Mountain Laboratories. She will present "Pathogenesis of the California Serogroup of Orthobunyaviruses," an emerging group of mosquito-borne viruses that can invade the central nervous system and cause severe neurological disease. 

Learn more about Peterson and her research.