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A Day in the Life of Erica Washington: The Fungi Expert
Dropping off the kids, doing some structural biology, training for soccer season – microbiologist Erica Washington shares what a day in the life of a researcher at Duke University looks like.
As an assistant research professor in molecular genetics and microbiology at the Duke University School of Medicine, Washington studies the biology of fungi: specifically, how these organisms
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