{"id":536,"date":"2018-12-27T21:17:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T21:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/undergraduate-research\/?page_id=536"},"modified":"2022-05-27T10:00:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T17:00:04","slug":"amalee-nunnally","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/office-undergraduate-research\/student-research-stories\/amalee-nunnally\/","title":{"rendered":"Amalee Nunnally: Hunting dangerous pathogens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hunting dangerous pathogens<\/h1>\n

\"\"Like a police detective, Amalee Nunnally is looking for a killer. But instead of a blue uniform and badge, Amalee wears a white lab coat. A junior microbiology major, she is engaged in a research project to detect a pathogen, Clostridium difficile, in the Flagstaff soil.<\/p>\n

Clostridium difficile is common worldwide and in severe cases can cause death. By gene sequencing the pathogens she finds in soil samples from 50 locations around Flagstaff, Amalee can match them with those found in Flagstaff hospital patients and trace the source of Clostridium difficile in these patients.<\/p>\n

Her work in the Pathogen and Microbiome Institute<\/a> gave Amalee opportunities she never imagined possible for an undergraduate and uncovered in her a passion for research.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always envisioned that as an undergraduate, I\u2019d only be somebody\u2019s research assistant, washing dishes and taking out trash and doing those kinds of things. But the opportunity they give us here is unreal. I am working with very expensive reagents and very important samples. That\u2019s really empowering when you\u2019re not even 21 yet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

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Student spotlight<\/h3>\n <\/div>\n
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Amalee Nunnally, Senior<\/p>\n

Major:\u00a0<\/strong>Microbiology<\/p>\n

Mentors:\u00a0<\/strong>Dr. Emily Cope, Dr. Alison Adams, Pathogen and Microbiome Institute student research<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hunting dangerous pathogens Like a police detective, Amalee Nunnally is looking for a killer. But instead of a blue uniform and badge, Amalee wears a white lab coat. A junior microbiology major, she is engaged in a research project to detect a pathogen, Clostridium difficile, in the Flagstaff soil. Clostridium difficile is common worldwide and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":455,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","ring_central_script_selection":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-536","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/office-undergraduate-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/office-undergraduate-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/office-undergraduate-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/office-undergraduate-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/455"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/office-undergraduate-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/office-undergraduate-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1573,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/office-undergraduate-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/536\/revisions\/1573"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/office-undergraduate-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/office-undergraduate-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}