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One in five people who contract the COVID-19 virus don’t get sick.
A gene variant may explain why In people with the variant, past exposure to other coronaviruses may prep the immune system to fight off the disease; Read the full article….
RESEARCHING ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT BACTERIA
WBTV’s Jamie Boll returned to UNC Charlotte for a discussion with Juan Vivero-Escoto PH.D. to learn more about antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Click here to view the story featured on…”On Your Side with Jamie Boll”
Research program coming to UNC Charlotte could help prevent world’s next pandemic
WBTV and Jamie Boll recently visited the CIPHER Research Center for a story featured on WBTVs’, “On Your Side with Jamie Boll”. Click here to view the story…
EFFECTIVE AGAINST NEWLY EMERGENT SARS-COV-2 XBB.1.5
ADVANCED COMPUTING AT UNC CHARLOTTE INDICATES CURRENT ANTIBODIES EFFECTIVE AGAINST NEWLY EMERGENT SARS-COV-2 XBB.1.5 A team at UNC Charlotte’s Center for Computational Intelligence to Predict Health and Environmental Risks (CIPHER) and Tuple, a Charlotte-based genomics consulting firm, has used artificial intelligence to rapidly assess the public health implications of the newly emergent SARS-CoV-2 XBB.1.5 variant. […]
De-CIPHER-ing the Future of Human Health
Experts from more than 20 disciplines have combined forces through CIPHER – the Center for Computational Intelligence to Predict Health and Environmental Risks. From infectious diseases and antibiotic resistance to food safety and ecosystem health, the threats to human health seem to be endless and complex. At UNC Charlotte, a team of researchers is finding […]
Understanding the role of bats in virus research
WBTV’s Jamie Boll returned to the CIPHER Research Center for a discussion with Laurel Yohe PH.D. to learn more about bats, Click here to view the story featured on…”On Your Side with Jamie Boll” Understanding the role of bats in virus research
SBE Meeting 2021 Special Symposium with UNC Charlotte
UNC Charlotte + SBE Meeting 2021 Special Symposium The SBE meeting 2021 will occur from June 19 to 23, 2021. This is a five-day event, Saturday to Wednesday, completely free of charge, and 100% online. On Monday, June 21 at 2PM Eastern, the SBE meeting 2021 will be hosting a special symposium from the Bioinformatics […]
Our research helps inform the FDA about COVID-19 vaccination
Alex Dornburg, Ph.D. Dr. Alex Dornburg’s (UNC Charlotte’s Department of Bioinformatics) paper on the infection by SARS-CoV-2 with alternate frequencies of mRNA vaccine boosting forms the basis of section 5.2.1 in the FDA briefing document for the upcoming booster decision later this week. The paper was written together with Dr. Jeffrey P. Townsend (Yale University […]
Carrier Selected for 2021 Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Award
Carrier Selected for 2021 Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Award Tyler Carrier, Ph.D., Biological Sciences, 2020, is the 2021 Graduate Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award winner in Biological Sciences/Life Sciences for his work on “Symbiosis Across Diet-Induced Phenotypes of Larval Sea Urchins”. Through his research on marine invertebrates, Carrier has examined the ability of organisms to not only […]
UNC Charlottes’s Dr. Janies on WFAE 90.7: As The Delta Variant Of COVID-19 Increases, Cases And Hospitalizations Rise In The U.S.
UNC Charlottes’s Dr. Janies on WFAE 90.7: As The Delta Variant Of COVID-19 Increases, Cases And Hospitalizations Rise In The U.S. With a COVID-19 vaccine and the United States seemingly opening up from the pandemic, things were starting to get back to normal just in time for summer. People started seeing friends and family, traveling […]