Congrats to newly minted PhD candidate Sam Courtney for successfully passing her preliminary exam!
Stay tuned to learn about her research “Investigating viral population diversity of deer tick virus during tick transmission and mammalian infection“.
Greg Ebel was recently featured on the Living Healthy Longer podcast, hosted by Columbine Health Systems Center for Healthy Aging at Colorado State University. 
In the episode “From Virus to Virus with Dr. Greg Ebel“, Dr. Ebel discusses his lab’s history of surveillance and prevention strategies for arboviruses (West Nile, dengue and Zika viruses), and how that work poised his team to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic early in 2020.
Speaking on emerging virus threats for the future – “Here on planet earth, we have some really big, hard problems that are not in anyway straightforward to address….this is symptomatic of a much larger, much deeper, much more complicated set of problems that as society, as humanity, as people who live here on planet earth, we gotta figure out how to handle those things.”
Take a listen and let us know what you think!
Huge congratulations to PhD candidate Emily ‘Fitz’ Fitzmeyer for winning CSU Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology Department’s Graduate Student Research Excellence award! You can read Fitz’s recently published PLoS Pearl on barcoded viruses here – Scanning barcodes: A way to explore viral populations
You can read about all the 2023 Graduate Student Excellence Award winners here!
And congrats to undergraduate research assistant MaKala Herndon on presenting her thesis project “The Application of Gene Drive in Preventing the Transmission of Vector Borne Diseases”!
