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WBTV’s Jamie Boll returned to the CIPHER Research Center for a discussion with Laurel Yohe PH.D. to learn more about bats, Click here to view the story featured on…”On Your Side with Jamie Boll” Understanding the role of bats in virus research

UNC Charlotte + SBE Meeting 2021 Special Symposium The SBE meeting 2021 will occur from June 19 to 23, 2021. This is a five-day event, Saturday to Wednesday, completely free of charge, and 100% online. On Monday, June 21 at 2PM Eastern, the SBE meeting 2021 will be hosting a special symposium from the Bioinformatics […]

Alex Dornburg, Ph.D. Dr. Alex Dornburg’s (UNC Charlotte’s Department of Bioinformatics) paper on the infection by SARS-CoV-2 with alternate frequencies of mRNA vaccine boosting forms the basis of section 5.2.1 in the FDA briefing document for the upcoming booster decision later this week. The paper was written together with Dr. Jeffrey P. Townsend (Yale University […]

Carrier Selected for 2021 Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Award Tyler Carrier, Ph.D., Biological Sciences, 2020, is the 2021 Graduate Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award winner in Biological Sciences/Life Sciences for his work on “Symbiosis Across Diet-Induced Phenotypes of Larval Sea Urchins”. Through his research on marine invertebrates, Carrier has examined the ability of organisms to not only […]

UNC Charlottes’s Dr. Janies on WFAE 90.7: As The Delta Variant Of COVID-19 Increases, Cases And Hospitalizations Rise In The U.S. With a COVID-19 vaccine and the United States seemingly opening up from the pandemic, things were starting to get back to normal just in time for summer. People started seeing friends and family, traveling […]

UNC Charlotte’s Drs. Cynthia Gibas and Jessica Schlueter are running the only lab in Mecklenburg County sequencing positive COVID-19 tests The latest SARS-CoV-2 data shows that the Delta variant accounts for at least 62% of positive COVID-19 cases in Mecklenburg County. That information was determined by scientists studying the virus’ genetic makeup right on the […]

Not all superheroes wear capes. Some don lab coats and goggles as they use their scholarly powers to identify new ways to predict and thwart the threat of planet-wide pandemics. An interdisciplinary team of UNC Charlotte researchers — who like movie superheroes possess an extraordinary ability to make the world a better place — are […]

UNC Charlotte’s pandemic response receives 2021 AASCU Excellence and Innovation Award The American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) has named UNC Charlotte among its 2021 winners of its Excellence and Innovation Awards in recognition of the University’s response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. This special, one-time award recognized model work in achieving student […]

CIPHER’s new wet labs will be operational in January 2023 Photo by Jacob Scannell. On UNC Charlotte’s main campus, supplies and equipment are already being placed on the fourth floor of the bioinformatics building. That is where the new wet labs of the Center for Computational Intelligence to Predict Health and Environmental Risks (CIPHER) will […]

SARS-CoV-2 reinfection likely without vaccination Researchers from Yale School of Public Health and Temple University joined forces provided the first estimates of the expected probability of infection given IgG antibody levels to the spike protein for SARS-CoV-2, as well as for SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, and the endemic coronaviruses HCoV-229E, HCoV-HKU1, HCoV-OC43, and HCoV-NL63, under endemic conditions. […]