"Our best hope is for an effective vaccine to stop the COVID-19 pandemic, just as it stopped smallpox." Professor Emerita Pat Foster discusses smallpox and how it differs from COVID-19.
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Postdoc Daniel Becker’s (Ketterson lab) award-winning paper on “macroimmunology” in Journal of Animal Ecology offers a guide to better understanding drivers of disease that may in turn lead to better prediction and management of pandemics.
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Fall semester begins August 24 with new academic calendar that adds flexibility.
Additional information will continue to be posted on fall2020.iu.edu.
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Microbiology major Andrew Quest named Goldwater Scholar.
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Organisms deal with unpredictable developmental environments thanks to environmental-responsive genomes. A landmark study of genome-wide gene expression in beetles by Postdoctoral Fellow Sofía Casasa and colleagues illuminates how these genomes evolve.
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Instead of taking a “flu-like approach” to creating a new vaccine, Professor John Patton and his team are leveraging the lab’s ongoing work exploring rotavirus to develop a vaccine that will protect children against COVID-19.
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