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Summer interns 2022Training

Welcome Summer Research Interns!

The Andersen Lab would like to officially introduce and welcome eight summer interns selected from two programs offered by Scripps Research and the Scripps Research Translational Institute! Our interns are working closely with a mentor on either a wet lab or computational project to learn about the methods we use to study the emergence, spread, and occurrence of infectious diseases.…
Michelle McGraw
July 12, 2022
Press ReleasePublication

Early detection of SARS-CoV-2 variants in wastewater

The CViSB developed tool, Freyja, is helping scientists detect SARS-COV-2 variants circulating in a community before they appear in clinical tests. As described in the recent Nature publication describing the study,  wastewater sampling is a cheaper, faster, and more accurate way for public health officials and researchers to detect rising cases, and now, it can accurately determine the genetic mixture…
Michelle McGraw
July 11, 2022
Andersen LabJobs

The Andersen Lab is hiring!

Calling all aspiring infectious disease researchers! The Andersen lab at the Scripps Research Institute seeking to hire 1-2 Research Technicians to assist with our diverse projects using high-throughput sequencing and computational approaches to study emerging viruses and the outbreaks they cause, including SARS-CoV-2, Lassa, Ebola, West Nile, and Zika. This full time position in beautiful La Jolla, California will provide…
Michelle McGraw
June 20, 2022
NewsPress Release

Collaboration with GISAID to release Outbreak.info API

The Center for Viral Systems Biology (CViSB) at Scripps Research is collaborating with GISAID, a global data science initiative that facilitates public access to SARS-CoV-2 genomic data, to effectively track the global evolution of SARS-CoV-2 variants on Outbreak.info. Today, CViSB announces its collaboration with GISAID on an application programming interface (API) that enables access to all processed data on Outbreak.info. “The API further realizes…
Michelle McGraw
June 13, 2022
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Douglas Lauffenburger awarded the 2021 Gordon Prize

Congratulations to our Modeling Core Co-Lead, Dr. Douglas Lauffenburger, who recently received the 2021 Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education. The Gordon Prize is presented by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) to award those who develop engineering leaders through new methods of education. As the Ford Professor of Bioengineering and the founding head of…
Michelle McGraw
December 19, 2021
News

CViSB Postdocs Travel to the DRC

Postdocs Raphaëlle Klitting and Edyth Parker were recently welcomed to the Pathogen Genomics Laboratory at the Institut National Recherche Biomédicale (INRB) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) by CViSB collaborator, Dr. Placide Mbala. The purpose of the trip was two-fold; to sequence samples from the North Kivu Ebola outbreak 2018-2020 and to provide sequencing analysis workshops to INRB…
Michelle McGraw
October 4, 2021
Jobs

We are Hiring!

CViSB and Outbreak.info are HIRING! Do you have a passion for global health? An interest in infectious disease research such as Lassa Fever, Ebola, and SARS-CoV-2? Looking for an opportunity to work with leaders in the fields of computational biology, bioinformatics, and genomics?  We have positions open in a wide range of experience, backgrounds, and talents right now including: Backend…
Michelle McGraw
August 27, 2021
Publication

CViSB study shows how Mardi Gras 2020 accelerated Louisiana’s first COVID-19 wave

A CViSB-led study published in Cell outlines how the New Orleans’ Mardi Gras festival of February 2020 appears to have driven one of the worst early outbreaks of COVID-19 in the United States. Investigators sequenced and analyzed the COVID-19-causing coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, recovered from patients, as well as data on population movements, COVID-19 deaths, and other relevant sources of information for…
Michelle McGraw
July 30, 2021
Publication

Investigation of a rare Ebola relapse case in Central Africa

A CViSB collaboration recently published their findings on an important Ebola relapse case in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A 25-year-old man who had been vaccinated against Ebola in December of 2018 fell ill with the disease six months later. He received experimental treatments for Ebola and was released from the hospital on June 29th, 2019. Unfortunately, the illness returned…
Michelle McGraw
May 6, 2021
MapPress Release

Launch of outbreak.info variant tracking

The Center for Viral Systems Biology (CViSB) at Scripps Research is tracking the prevalence of new variants of SARS-CoV-2—the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic—and making this information publicly available to drive global research efforts. The daily situation reports appear on Outbreak.info, a website created by the same team in early 2020, shortly after the emergence of COVID-19. The new reports add to the website’s…
Kristian Andersen
February 17, 2021
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