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Dr. Daniel Janies appears on air in light of a positive test for Coronavirus in Wake County raises concerns for the spread of the virus to other areas View the WSOCTV report here. https://www.wsoctv.com/video/?id=4852102

A local update on what public health officials are doing to keep abreast of the coronavirus. So far, we haven’t been affected here in Mecklenburg County, but the governor declared a state of emergency on Tuesday. What should you do? What is being done to keep the area healthy? As reports of coronavirus increase in […]

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 […]

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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 […]

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 […]

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 – What testing shows as the coronavirus crisis continues – Dr. Dan Janies interviewed about testing, spread of COVID-19, and what the models show.

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

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 […]

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 […]

A look at the work that goes into keeping Charlotte tap water safe and at some of the challenges in doing so. Then, mosquitos love our city and we hear about research to predict where mosquito-borne diseases will occur. Part One: Charlotte’s Drinking Water Quality We don’t think much about it when we turn on […]

Listen to the Charlotte Talks conversation on the 2017-2018 Winter flu: https://cpa.ds.npr.org/wfae/audio/2018/01/CTPOD20180123b.mp3 On Air with Charlotte Talks: Check Up On This Year’s Nasty Flu Season

Darwinism at work, as sea anemones adapt their venom to accommodate changing prey and sea conditions For a long time scientists believed that an animal’s venom was consistent over time. However, through a close study of sea anemones, researchers found that animals change their venom several times over the course of a lifetime, adapting the […]

CHARLOTTE — Scientists have confirmed the Zika virus is spread through bites from mosquitos of the aedes (a-deez) species: the same mosquitoes that spread dengue fever. But just how does the bite of a mosquito, which doesn’t fly very far, create a worldwide epidemic? Daniel Janies, Ph.D., a professor of Bioinformatics and Genomics at the […]

The golden poison dart frog (Phylobates terribilis) is one of the most toxic animals in the world. The frogs, which measure only five centimeters, have enough poison to kill ten grown men. The toxin in these frogs is so effective, explains Denis Machado, a doctoral student from the Inter-units Graduate Program in Bioinformatics at the […]

The Offices of United States Senator Richard Burr and United States Senator Thom Tillis, the North Carolina Military Business Center, the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, the North Carolina Military Foundation and the University of North Carolina are pleased to host the Medical, Biomedical & Biodefense: Support to the Warfighter Symposium on June 7 in Raleigh […]