Our collaborator Marc Johnson describes our search for divergent SARS-CoV-2 viruses in wastewater in today’s episode of Freakonomics Radio. Bonus content: a picture of Nancy collecting samples at the dog park! Also today, our collaborator …
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Summer 2023
Has another year gone by already? It’s been a busy year! Without dwelling too much on the past, I’m excited to report that Dr. Mitch Ramuta successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Lauren Raasch and Max …
In the air this year
I haven’t had time to update my lab web page in a while. This isn’t because it has been boring. Quite the opposite. In the media, I contributed to the debate on whether SARS-CoV-2 vaccine …
What’s going on?
It’s been hard to find time to update the lab website, so apologies if some of the content is out of date. It has been a challenging, yet sometimes exhilarating, time to be researching viruses …
COVID-19
It is unusual to be working as a virus researcher when a viral pandemic strikes. Like everyone else, we are social distancing and I’ve worked from home for the last two months. But we’ve been …
Back in Madison
After a great year visiting colleagues in Melbourne, Australia I am excited to be back in Madison. And we have to hit the ground running. In a few weeks, I will be hosting a Scientific …
WPR and R4P
It’s been quite an interesting few weeks with acronyms. After CROI, an annual HIV/AIDS meeting, I spoke with Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR) about recent progress in the fight against HIV. I’m also honored to have …
Welcome to 2019
Another exciting new year for the lab. I remain in Australia on sabbatical. We’ve settled into a routine where I communicate with the lab every morning in Australia, which corresponds to the afternoon in Madison. …
Simian arteriviruses in baboons and macaques
For the last several years we have been studying simian arteriviruses, a group of viruses that infect African monkeys and frequently cause fatal disease when they jump species into Asian monkeys. Can these viruses infect …
Peptide array paper back
Anna and Emma’s paper describing antibody responses using a massively parallel peptide array has just been published. Congrats Anna! http://www.plosntds.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006903