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The Pandemic Podcast with Dr Daniel Janies (COVID-19 Special)
Down The Wormhole Podcast What is COVID-19? What is SARS-CoV-2? What is being done to stop this pandemic and what can we do to stay safe? We are joined by Dr Daniel Janies who is on the front lines of this crisis and graciously offered us an hour of his time to answer our burning […]
WBTV: Dr. Janies speaks on flattening the COVID-19 spread
Watch the video on WBTV: https://www.wbtv.com/video/2020/03/28/bioinformatics-professor-speaks-flattening-covid-spread/ https://www.wbtv.com/video/2020/03/28/bioinformatics-professor-speaks-flattening…
It’s not surprising tigers at the zoo got coronavirus
In the epicenter of the United States’ coronavirus outbreak, even the lions and tigers started coughing. On Sunday, the Bronx Zoo announced that one of its majestic Malayan tigers tested positive for COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus. Meanwhile, three other tigers and three lions (who were not tested) were also sick […]
Pandemic: Geospatial technology can help in prevention, control and protection
In case of a disease outbreak, efficient use of geospatial data and mapping technologies can help in both containing and responding to crisis, and the past decade stands testimony to that. Be it an interactive story map from Esri presenting a narrative of what is COVID-19, how the disease has spread and similar cases in […]
WBTV: Drs. Janies and Ford speak on limited COVID-19 testing data
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) – The limited testing for COVID-19 has made it difficult for scientists to accurately predict the spread of the virus, two professors at UNC Charlotte told WBTV on Monday. We asked Dr. Daniel Janies, the Carol Grotnes Belk Professor of Bioinformatics and Genomics and Dr. Colby Ford, an associate professor in UNC […]
WBTV: Dr. Janies speaks about what testing shows as the coronavirus crisis continues
WBTV – What testing shows as the coronavirus crisis continues – Dr. Dan Janies interviewed about testing, spread of COVID-19, and what the models show.
Seminar by Dr. Brittany A. Leigh, Vanderbilt University
Event Date:February 7, 2020 – 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM Event Location:CHHS 161 Biology Seminar: Phages and their impacts on animal host biology Description:Seminar by Dr. Brittany A. Leigh, Vanderbilt University
Public health concern is a possible emergence of malaria in new regions, Baylor researcher says.
A type of mosquito that transmits malaria has been detected in Ethiopia for the first time, and the discovery has implications for putting more people at risk for malaria in new regions, according to a study led by a Baylor University researcher. The mosquito, Anopheles stephensi, normally is found in the Middle East, Indian Subcontinent […]
Simple sea anemones not so simple after all: Tube-dwelling anemones have largest mitochondrial genome on record
New research on tube anemones is challenging everything that evolutionary biologists thought they knew about sea animal genetics. The mitochondrial DNA of the tube anemone, or Ceriantharia, is a real head scratcher, from its unexpected arrangement to its previously unimagined magnitude. Simple sea anemones not so simple after all: Tube-dwelling anemones have largest mitochondrial genome […]