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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. […]

How UNC Charlotte’s New CIPHER Center May Unlock the Secrets of the Next Pandemic Professors Dan Janies (left) and Adam Reitzel (right), co-directors of UNC Charlotte’s new CIPHER center. Photographs By Herman Nicholson. In a recent interview with Greg Lacour, from Charlotte Magazine, Professors Dan Janies and Adam Reitzel discussed UNC Charlotte’s new CIPHER center. […]

Drs. Janies and Passaretti have some good news and some bad news now that Mecklenburg County is back to “medium” spread of COVID-19 In a new Charlotte Talks with Mike Collins (WFAE 90.7), Dr. Dan Janies (Professor of Bioinformatics and Genomics and co-director of UNC Charlotte’s CIPHER) discusses the latest updates on the COVID-19 pandemic […]

How UNC Charlotte is helping the world prepare for the next pandemic Since 2020, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte) has played a significant role in Mecklenburg County’s COVID-19 response — from wastewater testing to identifying new SARS-CoV-2 variants and analyzing their characteristics via artificial intelligence (AI). Now, AI has become the […]

Detecting COVID-19 before it spreads using wastewater COVID-19 wastewater testing. Wastewater can be a valuable way to detect SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) before it spreads. In this video, Erika Edwards (health and medical reporter/writer, NBC News shows how UNC Charlotte used wastewater collection to stay open during the pandemic. shows us how one […]

Graduate Students Share Research Notes With State Legislators L-R: David Brown (Graduate student, Bioinformatics), Representative Terry M. Brown, Jr., and Kaitlin Klotz (Graduate student, Biology). Graduate students David Brown, Bioinformatics, and Kaitlin Klotz, Biology, demonstrated the value of graduate education for state legislators as part of the N.C. Council of Graduate Schools 11th Annual Graduate […]

Dr. Colby Ford and seven other 49ners in Charlotte Business Journal’s 40 under 40 class for 2022 Congratulations to Dr. Colby T . Ford, from UNC Charlotte’s School of Data Science The Charlotte Business Journal has recognized Dr. Colby T. Ford as part of its 40 Under 40 class of 2022. Dr. Ford is an […]