BACTERIA!
BACTERIA!
- Date:
- Tuesday, December 9, 2025
- Time:
- 6:00pm - 7:30pm
- Location:
- Main Auditorium
- Location:
- Main Library (300 N. Roxboro St)
- Audience:
- Adult DPS Elementary School Emerging Adult: 18-24 Year Olds High School Intergenerational Middle School Senior Citizen Teen Tweens: 9-12 Year Olds
- Categories:
- Durham Environmental Food & Cooking Gardening Health & Fitness
BACTERIA!
Who? What? Where? When? Why?
The oldest life form on Earth...
Humans contain more of their cells than our own...
Covering every surface of the Earth where nothing else can survive...
Responsible for the deadliest pandemic in recorded history...
Surviving the vacuum of space...
Responsible for the greatest foods in world...
What is bacteria? Who benefits from bacteria? Where can you find bacteria? Why does bacteria exist? When is bacteria present?
Join Melody Xiao, MHS is a third-year PhD candidate at Duke University studying infectious disease ecology in the Nunn Lab, to learn all about the living organism that supports every other living organism: BACTERIA!
Melody Xiao, MHS is a third-year PhD candidate at Duke University studying infectious disease ecology in the Nunn Lab. Her dissertation work focuses on system of antimicrobial resistance at the human-animal interface in Madagascar, which experiences some of the highest rates of resistance and infection in the world. She received her Master's in infectious disease epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she participated in a broad range of public health research supported by PEPFAR, Action Contre la Faim, and the WHO. Nowadays, you can find her volunteering with local health and wildlife organizations, rock climbing, and spending time with her cats.
Tuesday December 9th starting at 6 p.m. in the Durham County Main Library located at 300 North Roxboro Street in Durham.
Parking is available in the library parking lot or at the North Queen Street Garage located at 115 North Queen Street which is behind the apartments directly across the street from the library. Parking at the garage is free. Please bring your parking ticket to a service point for validation.
Registration is appreciated to receive an email reminder, cancellation link, and program updates. Seating is first come first served. Registration does not hold or guarantee a seat.
Questions? Email mkoslofsky@dconc.gov
Image: A scanning electron micrograph depicting a mass of Yersinia pestis bacteria in the foregut of an infected flea