by jowilliams | May 11, 2020 | Covid-19 Related Work
Jennifer Frazier has launched a new series called COVID Conversations on Wednesdays, focusing on topics the public cares about. CCC faculty and themes will be highlighted. More information can be found here. The first COVID Conversation is scheduled for Wednesday, May...
by jowilliams | May 2, 2020 | Covid-19 Related Work, Uncategorized
San Francisco Chronicle article highlighting Bay Area researchers and their fight against coronavirus. Manu Prakash’s work on PPE inspired by snorkel masks is featured with...
by jowilliams | Apr 23, 2020 | Covid-19 Related Work
Simone Bianco’s lab (IBM) has developed a mathematical model for predicting the effect of removing non-pharmaceutical interventions (i.e. social distancing) on the spread of COVID-19 as a function of testing rates. The article explains that, given asymptomatic...
by jowilliams | Apr 21, 2020 | Covid-19 Related Work
Wilfred Denetclaw (SFSU) is researching how the pandemic is affecting the Navajo Nation and New Mexico, and trying to help with communication on the science to the Navajo People in the Navajo Nation and outreach to limit the spread of the virus. The Navajo Nation...
by jowilliams | Apr 15, 2020 | Covid-19 Related Work
Dan Fletcher is working with Melanie Ott (Gladstone/UCSF) on the development of a Coronavirus point-of-care Cas13-based assay for direct viral RNA detection. The device is built around Fletcher’s CellScope-based fluorescence microscopy system and is designed to...
by jowilliams | Apr 14, 2020 | Covid-19 Related Work
The Marshall lab is modeling how the novel coronavirus interacts with the host cell defense systems.
