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  2. Karl Henry

Karl Henry

Types:

CommonwealthU University Employee
Title(s)
Assistant Professor of Biology
Department
Education

Ph.D. Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University, Microbiology and Immunology 

Contact Information

Teaching

Introductory Microbiology, Medical Parasitology, Medical Microbiology, Virology, Microbiology laboratory, Immunology, Freshman Seminar

Research Interests

I am involved in several areas of research that relate to medical microbiology and mechanisms of drug resistance in pathogens. While primarily focused on the molecular basis of antifungal resistance in opportunistic fungi, I have also had projects studying the antibacterial effects of natural products and fungal metabolites (in collaboration with Greenwood Farm in Millville, PA), the prevalence of MRSA in the Bloomsburg area, bloodstream pathogens in avian species, and the genetic regulatory network that controls the yeast-hypha transition in Candida albicans.  

Regulation of multidrug resistance genes in pathogenic Candida species and the model yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Genetic regulation of hypha formation in Candida albicans.

Epidemiological studies on methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

Antimicrobial activity of fungal metabolites and natural products.

Microbial pathogens in avian species

Presentations

Maywald S, C Corbin, L Williams, J Hranitz, and K Henry (2019) Potential Environmental Predictors, Larvae Presence, and Blood Meal Analysis of an Important West Nile Vector in Ruffed Grouse Habitat. Student poster at American Fisheries Society and The Wildlife Society Conference in Reno, NV (Sept. 2019)

Maywald S, C Corbin, L Williams, J Hranitz, and K Henry (2019) Potential Environmental Predictors, Blood Meal Analysis, and Larvae Presence of an Important West Nile Virus Vector (Culex restuans) in Ruffed Grouse Habitat. Student poster at American Ornithological Society Conference in Anchorage, AK (June 2019)

Maywald S, C Corbin, L Williams, J Hranitz, and K Henry (2019) Potential Environmental Predictors of an important West Nile Virus vector (Culex restuans) in Ruffed Grouse Habitat. Student poster at Pennsylvania Wildlife Society Conference (March 2019)

Maywald S, C Corbin, L Williams, J Hranitz, and K Henry (2019) Potential Environmental Predictors and Blood Meal Analysis of an important West Nile Virus vector (Culex restuans). Student poster at College of Science and Technology Research Day (May 2019)