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It’s been a bit since we’ve heard much about a new COVID variant. With people starting to get their boosters and the holidays in full-swing, this seems like an inopportune time to hear about a new, “mega-mutated” variant: B.1.1.529. B.1.1.529 was first uploaded to GISAID on November 22nd (accession: EPI_ISL_6752027) by a team of researchers […]

Omicron variant: Group of local researchers discusses vaccine effectiveness against the new SARS-CoV-2 variant Transmission electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, isolated from a patient. Image captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Credit: NIAID (click here). Professor Daniel Janies (Charlotte’s Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics) and other […]

UNC Charlotte is part of the ARPA-H in NC Coalition UNC Charlotte is one of the members that compose the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) in NC Coalition. The ARPA-H in NC Coalition was formed to partner with the agency in its mission to improve the health and lives of all Americans. This […]

Fundamentals of genomic epidemiology and the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic Ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses highlighting the protein particles E, S, and M located on the outer surface of SARS-COV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19. Source: Public Health Image Library (PHIL, ID ID #23312). Researchers at UNC Charlotte’s Bioinformatics Research Center (BRC) published […]

Charlotte’s Bioinformatics Lab informs Mecklenburg County’s COVID-19 public health approach Photo by Susan Messina. Since the emergence last summer of the COVID-19 delta variant, UNC Charlotte has partnered with the Mecklenburg County Health Department to provide genome sequencing — the process of extracting and examining RNA from positive COVID-19 tests — to help health officials […]

Dr. Xiang and collaborators were awarded over $1 Million from the NSF Tingting Xiang, Ph.D. Dr. Tingting Xiang has been awarded $1,370,777 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for her project “Collaborative Research: EDGE CMT: Discovery and functional characterization of genes that govern ciliate-algal symbiosis.” This is a 4-years project that counts with the collaboration […]

Upcoming talks by Drs. Eugenia Lo and Rick Allen White III This September 2, we will have two talks from UNC Charlotte’s faculty that you should be looking forward to watching. In the Department of Biological Sciences, Dr. Eugenia Lo will open the Fall 2022 Seminar Series with a talk on “Genomic epidemiology and host […]

MIDAS Webinar Series: Dr. Shi Chen gives a talk on characterizing public opinions towards COVID-19 for infoveillance Dr. Shi Chen, Associate Professor at UNC Charlotte’s Department of Public Health Sciences Dr. Shi Chen is an associate professor at UNC Charlotte’s Department of Public Health Sciences. His research interests include how individual, spatial, and temporal heterogeneity […]

Drs. Munir and Vivero-Escoto receive an NIH grant Dr. Juan Vivero-Escoto (left) and Dr. Mariya Munir (right) received a new grant from DHHS National Institutes of Health. Two UNC Charlotte’s faculty just received a new grant from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ (DHHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH). The project’s co-PI, Dr. […]

AI-driven structural predictions of Omicron predict the virus’ properties weeks earlier than in the lab Ford et al.’s comparison of reference RBD structure (PDB: 6XC2, shown in green) and the predicted Omicron (B.1.1.529) RBD structures (AlphaFold2 shown in blue, RoseTTAFold shown in purple). Mutated residues are highlighted in red. Professor Daniel A. Janies and Drs. […]