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!