GCRL professor gets $2.3M grant

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. - Microbiologist Crystal Johnson at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory has been awarded a four-year, $2.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health to study pathogenic vibrios. Johnson and colleagues from the University of Southern Mississippi Department of Coastal Sciences at GCRL and the Department of Marine Science at Stennis Space Center will collaborate with researchers at the University of Maryland and the NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle, Wash. (Source: Hattiesburg American, 10/20/08)