Welcome to the Genomics and Molecular Epidemiology Research (GaMER) lab in the Department of Pathobiology and Veterinary Science of University of Connecticut.
We use an interdisciplinary combination of high-throughput genome sequencing, computational biology, phylogenetic analysis, and traditional molecular biology and virology. We hope that, through our research, we can better understand the genetic diversity and evolutionary dynamics of rapidly mutating viruses in animals.
| Genome Sequencing | Tracking Virus | PVS4000 class |
Publications in 2019
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“A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will organize a public workshop to explore research priorities for readiness and response to the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza outbreak in the United States.”
Genetic tracing at the Huanan Seafood market further supports an animal origin to #COVID19.
Learn more in @CellCellPress:
https://cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)00901-2
@MichaelWorobey
@Sorbonne_Univ_ Florence Débarre
@scrippsresearch Kristian Andersen
'Virology—The next fifty years' - a perspective by Eddie Holmes, @GoodrumVirusLab and myself in Cell
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)00785-2
#H5N1 virus was detected in dead seals on Tyuleniy Island in eastern Russia, in the Sea of Okhotsk. Viruses isolated from the seals belong to clade 2.3.4.4b and are closely related to viruses detected in the Russian Far East and Japan in 2022–2023.
https://bit.ly/4elyZAF
