Tejashree Modak
School: University of Rhode Island
Degree: Ph.D., Cell and Molecular Biology
Advisor: Marta Gomez-Chiarri
Research: I study host-probiotic-pathogen interactions for better disease management in East Coast oysters (Crassostrea virginica). We work with probiotics for oysters that protect them from a pathogen, Vibrio coralliilyticus that causes massive mortality in larval stages. My goal is to understand whether the probiotics stimulate the immune system of the oyster or act as immunomodulators in order to provide protection from the pathogen.
Rhode Island EPSCoR is funded by the National Science Foundation under EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Award #OIA-1655221 (Sept. 2017-Aug. 2022). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.