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Finding the answers hidden in our antibodies

Posted by Eliza Romero on November 28, 2022

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A new serological test in which an NAU professor played a pivotal role in developing can not only help humanity prepare for and respond to the next pandemic, but it also can be pivotal in the search for viral triggers of diseases like diabetes and celiac disease. 

Jason Ladner, an assistant professor… Read more

Filed Under: College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute

COVID-19 vaccination activates antibodies targeting parts of virus spike protein shared between coronaviruses

Posted by Eliza Romero on July 5, 2022

Medical animation of Covid-19 virus

Could the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine reawaken previous antibody responses and point the way to a universal coronavirus vaccine? A new analysis of the antibody response to a COVID-19 vaccine suggests the immune system’s history with other coronaviruses, including those behind the common cold, shapes the patient’s response, according to a study published… Read more

Filed Under: College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute

Disease ecologist awarded $3.5 million to build revolutionary epidemiological platform

Posted by Heather Tate on June 20, 2022

Joe Mihaljevic talking and writing on whiteboard

EpiMoRPH envisioned as collaborative online “hub,” making forecasting epidemics vastly more transparent and reliable

Mathematical modeling—which combines math, statistics, computing and data—is a critical tool for public health professionals, who use it to study how diseases spread, predict the future course of outbreaks and evaluate strategies for controlling epidemics.

As… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Health Equity Research, College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, COVID-19, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, TGen

Two scientists awarded prestigious Scialog grants supporting new research to detect, mitigate emerging animal-borne infectious diseases

Posted by Heather Tate on December 14, 2021

New initiative supports building a collaborative community of early-career scientists

Crystal Hepp holding container with mosquitosJason Ladner holding specimenZoonotic diseases—caused by germs that spread between animals and people—are very common. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, three of every four new or emerging infectious diseases in people come from animals—for example, scientists… Read more

Filed Under: College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, COVID-19, Department of Biological Sciences, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute

Team of disease ecologists documents person-to-person spread of antimicrobial-resistant plague

Posted by Heather Tate on August 12, 2021

New strain of deadly disease caused by Yersinia pestis emerged in an outbreak in rural Madagascar


Although the world is focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, there are many other dangerous pathogens still out there, like Yersinia pestis, which causes plague – the deadly disease that killed tens of millions of people during the infamous Black Death in the 14th century. Although plague has been largely eradicated in the developed world, it still… Read more

Filed Under: College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute

Team awarded $2M NSF grant to teach virtual explorers about permafrost and Arctic climate change

Posted by Heather Tate on July 19, 2021

Arctic illustrationScientists at Northern Arizona University, Arizona State University, the Arizona Geological Survey at the University of Arizona and the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado Boulder have been awarded almost $2 million from the National Science Foundation to develop a virtual reality teaching tool called Polar Explorer. In this… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, School of Earth and Sustainability

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