Nature – Pathogens
- Science in the time of COVID-19: Reflections on the UK Events Research Programme August 10, 2022
- Omicron BA.4/BA.5 escape neutralizing immunity elicited by BA.1 infection August 10, 2022
- Predictive value of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio for the fatality of COVID-19 patients complicated with cardiovascular diseases and/or risk factors August 10, 2022
- Effectiveness of third vaccine dose for coronavirus disease 2019 during the Omicron variant pandemic: a prospective observational study in Japan August 10, 2022
- Estimating and forecasting the burden and spread of Colombia’s SARS-CoV2 first wave August 9, 2022
Nature – AMR
- Antibiotic resistance genes in the gut microbiota of mothers and linked neonates with or without sepsis from low- and middle-income countries August 4, 2022
- Distinctive roles of translesion polymerases DinB1 and DnaE2 in diversification of the mycobacterial genome through substitution and frameshift mutagenesis August 2, 2022
- A unique class of Zn2+-binding serine-based PBPs underlies cephalosporin resistance and sporogenesis in Clostridioides difficile July 28, 2022
- The Cryo-EM structures of two amphibian antimicrobial cross-β amyloid fibrils July 27, 2022
- Development of a novel core genome MLST scheme for tracing multidrug resistant Staphylococcus capitis July 22, 2022
Outbreaks
- Spain confirms two CCHF cases in León August 10, 2022
- Vietnam dengue cases top 145,000, More than triple 2021s tally August 10, 2022
CDC
- Post–COVID-19 Symptoms and Conditions Among Children and Adolescents — United States, March 1, 2020–January 31, 2022 August 4, 2022
- Interim Recommendation of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices for Use of the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine in Persons Aged ≥18 years — United States, July 2022 August 4, 2022
Food Safety News
- Michigan tracking E. coli cases August 10, 2022
- Senate sits on Esteban nomination as USDA’s Under Secretary for Food Safety August 10, 2022
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Author Archives: WeimerMicroLab
Dr. Weimer and PhD student, DJ Darwin Bandoy join “The Conversation.”
Dr. Weimer and DJ Darwin Bandoy join The Conversation with their latest article: Where coronavirus variants emerge, surges follow – new research suggests how genomic surveillance can be an early warning system. How The Conversation is different Every article you read … Continue reading
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Tools for Hunting Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Genes
Contributed by Cory Schlesener, B.S. Predicting bacterial isolate susceptibility for disease treatment and surveying resistance prevalence broadly is of great interest, especially as antibiotic resistance is increasing globally among clinical isolates. Screening sequence data for genes and alleles that confer antibiotic resistance has increased in availability but … Continue reading
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Dr. Weimer & graduate student DJ Darwin Bandoy’s manuscript Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomic epidemiology reveals disease transmission coupled to variant emergence and allelic variation published in Nature
This past week UC Davis did a press release for the new paper that Dr. Weimer and graduate student DJ Darwin Bandoy have being published in Nature. You can read the article Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomic epidemiology reveals disease transmission … Continue reading
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Vaccines work!
Contributed by Darwin Bandoy, PhD Candidate One year into the pandemic and I already managed to get my first dose of vaccine. The pandemic will end with the achievement of herd immunity and the best path towards herd immunity is … Continue reading
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Cell Line Makes the Phenotyp
Contributed by Cory Schlesener, B.S. When conducting biological assays using mammalian cell tissue culture, the cell line used is crucial. It is a given to choose cells derived from the tissue of interest to study. However, as immortalized cell lines … Continue reading
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Tune in for a live Q&A session with UC Davis experts on Coronavirus Mutations & Variants
Click here to watch as Dr. Weimer joins UC Davis live to discuss coronavirus.
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2021
Contributed by Darwin Bandoy, PhD candidate It is the start of another year and we are still in the middle of the winter wave of COVID-19 with a record number of mortalities and new infections. What is different is the … Continue reading
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Parsing large data files to working chunks
Contributed by Cory Schlesener, B.S. When analyzing large data files in the realm of gigabytes, system memory and program/function set memory limits becomes an issue. Creating a smaller data set for analysis can bring the working data down to a … Continue reading
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AutoML, easier use of machine learning mode
Contributed by Cory Schlesener, B.S. Machine Learning (ML) enables powerful analysis of data to formulate models. These models can be utilized in applications or help dive into the data for insight on relationships between features. There are many varieties of models … Continue reading
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USDA Food Safety Fellow Day 1
Contributed by Darwin Bandoy, PhD Candidate We formally started the USDA Food Safety fellowship with a kick-off meeting. Our proposal is to utilize machine learning to parse the basis for virulence and antimicrobial resistance in Salmonella Dublin. This particular strain … Continue reading
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