MEZAP Lab News!

9-Jun-2023

Dr. David Simons has received a Fellows in Residence award through the NSF BII Viral Emergence Research Institute and will be working with the MEZAP lab to synthesize a database on host-pathogen associations with two important virus families, Hantaviridae and Arenaviridae. This database will include key metadata that will allow for downstream hypothesis-driven research to better understand virus evolution and ecology in these important groups. Welcome David! Find more about David’s work here: https://www.dsimons.org/

01-Sep-2023

NSF awards $12.5 million over five years to support research of the Biology Integration Institute: Viral Emergence Research Initiative with WSU Assistant Professor, Stephanie N. Seifert, as Co-PI. Work in the MEZAP lab will focus on decoding the rules of host-virus compatibility using -omics data. Find out more about the exciting work with the Verena Institute here: https://www.viralemergence.org/