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UW expert on animals and bacteria wins honor

A UW developmental biologist wins one-year grant to continue research into how animals react to bacteria.

University of Wisconsin-Madison developmental biologist Margaret McFall-Ngai has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a one-year grant that will support her investigation into how animals interact with their natural complement of microbes.

Along the way, she hopes to explore a theory about the origin of immunity among vertebrates.