Month: January 2014

Hunting for Viruses in the French Amazon

Nacho Caballero, a Bioinformatics graduate student, whose advisor is John Connor, has been working at the Pasteur Institute in French Guiana since October 2013 hunting for viruses in the French Amazon.  Check out his travel blog at:  http://www.bu.edu/bioinformatics/2013/11/26/hunting-for-viruses-in-the-french-amazon/

Filone paper chosen as Top 100 Discoveries of 2013 by Discover Magazine

Congratulations to Claire Marie Filone, a postdoctoral fellow in the Connor lab, whose Chemistry and Biology paper entitled “Identification of a Broad-spectrum Inhibitor of Viral RNA Synthesis: Validation of a Prototype Virus-based Approach” was chosen as one of the Top 100 Discoveries of 2013 by Discovery Magazine!