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Kerri Kobryn is an Associate Professor at the University of Saskatchewan in the College of Medicine. She holds a BSc (Hon) in Genetics from the University of Western Ontario, Canada, and a PhD in Genetics from the University of Glasgow, UK. Her research primarily focuses on Lyme disease, which is recognized as an important emerging infection in Canada. She studies the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, the pathogen responsible for Lyme disease, particularly its unique linear chromosome and plasmids with unusual hairpin telomeres. Her work involves the biochemical enzyme ResT, which is essential for forming hairpin telomeres, with the goal of rationally designing Borrelia-specific drugs. Additionally, she is engaged in various projects that aim to identify and characterize accessory factors needed for telomere formation and maintenance.
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