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The Cardiovascular Sciences Summer Research Program is an opportunity for undergraduate students to gain research experience during the summer months. The program includes research training in the cardiovascular sciences with mentoring by medical school faculty.

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 […]

Biological Sciences Professor and Researcher, Dr. Elaine Luo was awarded $699k from NSF for a project to study the “Viral impacts on microbial carbon cycling at deep-sea hydrothermal vents”. This project aims to identify the diversity, mechanisms, and rates of virus-induced carbon cycling in a deep-sea hydrothermal vent system (Axial Seamount). While chemoautotrophic microbes are […]

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 […]

Avian Influenza (H5N1) has recently emerged in North America’s wildlife, chickens, cows, and farmworkers. Much of the existing literature centers around understanding the transmission of this virus by studying a single variable’s effect on transmission.  Ms. Alexander posits that transmission is the result of multiple variables. Her research will integrate three distinct variables into a […]

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 […]

Join us December 4, 2025 for a One health Seminar with Dr. Antonio Humberto Hamad Minervino – Epidemiology of pathogens, ticks and tick-borne diseases, pathogen discovery, One Health, and Amazonian natural products – Federal University of Western Pará – UFOPA, Brazil. Antonio Humberto Hamad Minervino is an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Western […]

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 […]