Crowd-Sourcing in Research: Wildlife Diseases Challenge Grant
Thursday, September 15, 2016 - 13:22
in Biology & Nature
When Experiment.com, an online platform for funding scientific discoveries, decided to issue a grant challenge addressing wildlife diseases, they invited UA's own Dr. Hazel Barton, professor of biology and geoscience, to submit a project. Barton is recognized as having one of the world's preeminent cave microbiology labs and has been studying white-nose syndrome (WNS), a fungal infection that is killing millions of hibernating North American bats.