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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What can we learn from human infections with avian influenza for pandmic preparedness? CDC IRAT and WHO TIPRA risk models for risk prediction, and genomic sequence data useful. Mink farms and animal markets concerning.
👉https://enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1751-7915.14389
Remember the HPAI outbreak in cats in Poland in 2023? Well, a dog was also infected. Respiratory disease signs consistent with "kennel cough" - dog did not respond to initial treatment with antibiotics, later fluA test result positive.
👉https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/12/4/689
China been using vaccines to control HPAI H5 since 2004, with more than 300 billion doses used by 2022. Paper outlines suggestions regarding requirements for vaccine selection and effectiveness.
👉https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095311924001163
【Please RT】Excited to share our new research in bioRxiv!
We here developed CoVFit, a protein language model predicting the fitness (transmissibility) of SARS-CoV-2 variants from the S protein sequence. 1/n
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.15.584819v1
