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Dr. Weimer and DJ Darwin Bandoy join The Conversation with their latest article:
- UC Davis press release on Dr. Weimer and graduate student DJ Darwin Bandoy’s latest manuscript, Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomic epidemiology reveals disease transmission coupled to variant emergence and allelic variation, published in Nature. Read it here
- Dr. Weimer joins UC Davis live to discuss Coronavirus. Q&A session with UC Davis experts on Coronavirus Mutations & Variants
- Dr. Weimer discusses the 100K project on youtube during the Bioinformática UFMG Webinar, July 9, 2020. “100K Pathogen Genome Project: Merging Population Genomics and Machine Learning”
- UC Davis highlights a new paper by Dr. Bart Weimer and graduate student DJ Darwin R. Bandoy, DVM Genome Variation Gives Insight Into Coronavirus Spread,
- What’s in Your Food? Read the article Written by Niina Haiminen for the IBM Research blog regarding the latest paper, Food authentication from shotgun sequencing reads with an application on high protein powders
- Dr. Fabio Soares De Lima, DVM, MS, Ph.D., Diplomat ACT Seminar “Unraveling NGF-β role on reproduction, and host genome-microbiome interactions modulating health and milk production in dairy cows” https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.128/lju.6a9.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Lima-Seminar-Presentation-Announcement.pdf
- Pathogens Travel Award Announced – The editorial team of Pathogens is inviting applications for a Travel Award for two Postdocs and Ph.D. students to support attending a conference in 2019 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/pathogens/awards
- Talking Biotech Podcast – Nitrogen Fixation and Corn – featuring Dr. Alan Bennett http://www.talkingbiotechpodcast.com/154-nitrogen-fixing-and-corn/
- The Wonder Plant That Could Slash Fertilizer Use – An indigenous Mexican corn gets its nitrogen from the air. Read the article’s in Phys Org here: https://phys.org/news/2018-08-corn-variety-nutrients-bacteria-potentially.html and in The Atlantic here: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/amaizeballs/567140
- 2nd Annual Ohio Mass Spectrometry and Metabolomics Symposium, Wednesday, May 16, 2018 – Thursday, May 17, 2018. You can learn more and register by visiting: https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=2151336&
- San Francisco Nanopore Day on Tuesday, March 13th, 2018. 9:45 am – 4;30 pm. This event is free but does require pre-registration. You can learn more and register by visiting: https://nanoporetech.com/events/nanopore-day-san-francisco.
- A paper we were recently involved in titled ‘Human breath metabolomics using an optimized non-invasive exhaled breath condensate sampler’ published in the Journal of Breath Research (JBR) last year has been selected to be part of the journal’s Highlights of 2017 collection. This selection of articles includes some of the best and most influential research published in JBR last year, representing cutting-edge topics in breath analysis related research. Please visit http://iopscience.iop.org/journal/1752-7163/page/Highlights-of-2017 to read the Highlights collection.
- Look for our upcoming review in a special issue of Separations – Development of Analytical Methods for Clarification of Biological Phenomena: “Methods and applications of metabolomics for discovery and food safety” by Balasubramanian Ganesan and Bart C. Weimer.
- Our work with the Mars/IBM Global Food Safety Consortium was highlighted in PNAS – Thanks to Carolyn Bean for the great article.
Nature – Pathogens
- 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
- A suite of PCR-LwCas13a assays for detection and genotyping of Treponema pallidum in clinical samples August 9, 2022
- Protection of Omicron sub-lineage infection against reinfection with another Omicron sub-lineage 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
- Brazil: Minas Gerais reports nearly 60,000 confirmed dengue cases August 9, 2022
- Fiji update: Measles and Rubella August 9, 2022
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