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Congratulations to Adam Reitzel Ph.D on his new award from NSF/BIO-UKRI/BBSRC “The role of gene copy number variation in host-microbe interactions”. It is a 4-year grant ($1.5M total, $650K to UNC Charlotte) and is a collaborative project with a UK partner. With funding from the National Science Foundation, the Reitzel lab will use a coastal sea anemone […]

UNC Charlotte has received $2 million as part of a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to expand a successful regional partnership that strengthens STEM pathways for academically talented, low‑income students. The new award builds on the earlier SPARC 4 initiative and launches SPARC 6, a five‑institution collaboration designed to improve retention, transfer […]

On any given spring day at UNC Charlotte, one can expect to see around ten to twelve geese on average. In fact, these geese have been so central to the campus landscape that the student body has adopted a goose, known to many as Prospector Goose, as an unofficial mascot. What may be less well-known […]

Through cutting-edge methods and advanced artificial intelligence analysis, UNC Charlotte researchers leading a multidisciplinary team across four universities have successfully resolved the entire genome of “phage G,” the largest bacterial virus (aka bacteriophages or phages) ever cultivated in a physical lab environment. Published Sept. 30 in leading journal Nature’s NPJ Viruses, the study was led by […]

ON YOUR SIDE TONIGHT: Jamie Boll and WBTV recently visited UNC Charlotte’s CIPHER Center to explore how bird flu is evolving. Jamie sat down with Dr. Daniel Janies to discuss his cutting-edge research and the technology advances made since the COVID-19 pandemic. Their conversation highlighted the role of artificial intelligence in current studies and examined […]

AbstractPrimary production and microbial carbon cycling controls biogeochemical cycles that influencethe habitability of our planet. Within microbial communities, abundant viruses infect cells andrelease organic carbon from primary producers into dissolved and particulate carbon pools in theocean and fuel the microbial loop. Despite the key role of viruses in microbial carbon cycling,linking novel viral diversity to […]

From egg prices to pet food recalls – and now, confirmation that another strain of bird flu has infected a large commercial flock of broiler chickens on a Mississippi farm – headlines are capturing escalating concern over H5N1’s spread. According to recent findings by a team of bioinformatics and genomics experts at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, […]

is on pace to achieve R1 status in 2025 In a recent story on WBTV, Jamie Boll interviews Chancellor Sharon Gabor and Vice Chancellor for Research John Daniels. View the full story

The College of Computing and Informatics selected Dr. Richard Allen White as the well deserved recipient of the 2024 Essam El-Kwae Student-Faculty Research Award. Dr. White, alongside students Madeline Bellanger and Jose Figueroa, has made contributions in the scientific community with the submission of seven papers within a span of 10 months. Five of these […]