Elke Mühlberger interviewed on “How People Catch Ebola, and How they Don’t”
Dr. Elke Mühlberger, Associate Professor of Microbiology and Director of the Biomolecule Production Core at the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories, was interviewed about Ebola transmission on WBUR’s CommonHealth on October 22, 2014. Read this article.
Understanding Respiratory Syncytial Virus Genome Synthesis
Congratulations to Sarah Noton and Rachel Fearns, whose Virology paper entitled “Factors Affecting de novo RNA Synthesis and Back-priming by the Respiratory Syncytial Virus Polymerase” was featured in Virology Highlights!
Akshaya Ramesh Recieves the Duke CHAVI-ID Predoctoral Student Award
Akshaya Ramesh, a Genetics and Genomics student in the Kepler Lab, received the Duke CHAVI-ID Pre-Doctoral Student Award 2014 for contributions in research with Duke Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology and Immunogen Discovery. Akshaya also received a prize for her poster entitled “Macaque Immunogentics via ten Multi-resolution de-novo Genome Assemblies.” Congratulations, Shay!