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1 Just a year ago, Peter Hudson, who helped develop the center, invited Poss to come to CIDD. "You want me to come for a seminar?" Poss asked. "No, no," she recalls him saying. "We want you to come." She's already having an impact.At a recent lab meeting, Hudson's postdoc, Sarah Perkins, was presenting an idea to test how an intestinal worm and a respiratory bacterium, Bordetella bronchiseptica, interact inside the body of a mouse. Such interactions can be important: Julius Wagner von Jaurugg received the 1927 Nobel Prize by showing that the intense fevers of malaria could be used to wipe out syphilis. Perkins suggests that the two parasites may regulate each others' numbers through Th1 and Th2 cytokines, which are thought to interact antagonistically.
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Poss takes in the presentation from the back of the room and finally interjects: "I...
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