HKU5 project featured on TWiV
Dr. Vincent Racaniello featured our latest work identifying the receptor for HKU5 merbecoviruses on This Week In Virology, episode #1223.
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LoFV and collaborators release new bat cell lines to the research community
Anybody studying bat viruses and immunology knows there are not enough publicly available resources. You can only buy 3 bat cell lines at the moment and they aren’t suitable for many viruses. This lack of resources has become such a problem for researchers studying innate immune responses to infection and bat tolerance of pathogenic viruses […]
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LoFV at Keystone Positive Strand RNA Symposium
We will be in attendance at the Keystone Symposium: Positive Strand RNA viruses this year in Killarney, Ireland! On Wednesday, October 23rd from 1:30-3:00pm, Dr. Letko will participate in the “academia vs government vs industry” career panel, and on Thursday October 24th, he will co-chair and present at the “Zoonosis, Viral Evolution and Epidemiology” session. […]
LoFV at ASV 2024
The Laboratory of Functional Viromics will be at ASV this year! Dr. Letko is presenting at the bat virology satellite symposium on Monday, June 24th and will be in attendance for the remainder of the conference. LoFV will have postings for graduate student and post-doc positions on the Job & Message Boards in the Union […]
LABORATORY OF FUNCTIONAL VIROMICS AWARDED $1.9m R01 GRANT FROM NIH/NIAID TO EXPLORE CORONAVIRUS CELL ENTRY
November 20th, 2023 Pullman, Wa – The Laboratory of Functional Viromics, directed by Dr. Michael Letko, is honored to receive an R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID). This support will facilitate a deeper understanding of the diverse coronaviruses found in the wild and their potential […]
Cary Institute, USF and WSU awarded $3M study on COVID-19 variants that could emerge from wildlife
Project combines artificial intelligence, virology, and ecology to anticipate future SARS-CoV-2 strains with the potential to pass between animals and people. ORIGINAL SOURCE: CARY INSTITUTE Many wild animals can carry COVID-19, including those that live among us, such as deer mice, red foxes, white-tailed deer, and more. These species may act as reservoirs, offering new […]
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