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Help us explore the world’s coronaviruses – we have developed some exciting new tools and have too many questions to answer! Let’s discover something new and use it to start your next step!

Project goals
1. Screen and characterize currently circulating coroanviruses for zoonotic properties including cell entry and evasion of adaptive immune responses

2. Work with machine-learning model experts to extrapolate larger trends from laboratory data.

3. Work with structural and therapeutic development experts to model crucial viral-host interfaces, optimize vaccine antigens and test antiviral interventions


Critical technical skills
mammalian cell culture
transfections
transductions
molecular cloning strategy design
westernblot
PCR
sequence analysis
nucleic acid extraction and purification
experience with GraphPad Prism
troubleshooting


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Uncover how coronaviruses could adapt to new host environments using next generation computational methods and a suite of standardized tools developed here in the Laboratory of Functional Viromics.

Project goals
1. Work with computational biologists to predict how coronavirus spike can adapt to new species

2. Use SarbecoType to validate and test computational predictions


Helpful technical skills
mammalian cell culture
transfections
molecular cloning
westernblot
PCR
sequence analysis
nucleic acid extraction and purification
experience with GraphPad Prism