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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 […]

Adam Reitzel won The Harshini V. de Silva Graduate Mentor Award Dr. Adam Reitzel won the Harshini V. de Silva Graduate Mentor Award On March 15, 2022, Dr. Adam Reitzel, a UNC CHarlotte’s professor of biological sciences, won the Harshini V. de Silva Graduate Mentor Award for his commitment to graduate students. The Harshini V. […]

What is the Current COVID-19 Situation? Dr. Daniel A. Janies, Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor of Bioinformatics and Genomics. UNC Charlotte UNC Charlotte’s Professor Daniel A. Janies joins Alex, Jamie, and Jack from WBTC’s Good Question to answer important questions about the pandemic: What is the current COVID-19 situation? Should we prepare for more variants, […]

WBTV: Dr. Janies talks about the do’s and don’ts as you adjust to Phase 1 of reopening North Carolina Read the article here: https://www.wbtv.com/2020/05/08/dos-donts-you-adjust-phase-reopening-north-carolina/ https://www.wbtv.com/2020/05/08/dos-donts-you-adjust-phase-reopening-north-carol…

Why some viruses die out in summer, but others thrive It’s increasingly clear that summer won’t quell the new coronavirus. (Sorry.) The preponderance of research suggests warmer weather might have a small impact on slowing the spread of coronavirus, but the summer itself certainly won’t end the historic pandemic. We’re going to be living with […]

Dr. Adam Reitzel (Professor in Biological Sciences) has been awarded a R15 AREA grant by NIGMS (NIH) to study the roles of genetic and environmental variation in the epigenetics of the model sea anemone Nematostella vectensis. This research will determine how biotic and abiotic variation impacts the distribution and quantity of DNA methylation using a […]

Modeling Plasmodium falciparum Diagnostic Test Sensitivity using Machine Learning with Histidine-Rich Protein 2 Variants Colby T Ford, Gezahegn Alemayehu, Kayla Blackburn, Karen Lopez, Cheikh Cambel Dieng, Eugenia Lo, Lemu Golassa, and Daniel Janies Malaria, predominantly caused by Plasmodium falciparum, poses one of largest and most durable health threats in the world. Previously, simplistic regression-based models […]