Marcos Pires Spring 2016

Marcos Pires continues to leverage the synthetic organic skills of his research team to elucidate critical steps in the biosynthesis of bacterial cell walls and to construct a novel immuno-therapy for bacterial infections.  Marcos has been busy promoting his research program by giving seminars at Syracuse University, SUNY – Stony Brook, Rutgers University, University of Delaware, Purdue University, and Penn State University.  He recently attended an NSF CAREER Workshop in which he was able to interact with several program officers from NSF (and some from NIH as well).  Marcos is in the midst of arranging an after school program with officials and educators at the nearby Broughal Middle School.  The program is due to start in spring of 2016 and it will entail a weekly session of students from grades 6-8.  Participants of the program will receive training and exposure to various aspects of chemistry, physics, and biology, with a special emphasis on various research themes from his research group.  The Pires Group has been featured on the April 2016 edition of ACS Infectious Diseases, the article may be seen here.  Marcos has also recently been awarded the ACS Infectious Disease Young Investigator Award.