Tag: Animal Hosts

We study emerging arboviruses and other ssRNA+ viruses. We work on understanding the interactions between viruses and its hosts. Our research aims to improve our knowledge to ultimately promote global preparedness through proactive measures of prediction, surveillance, prevention, and treatment. Our lab focuses on emerging[...]

There are diverse areas of study across CIHMID’s member labs, but our PIs are unified in their commitment to science. CIHMID will periodically shine a spotlight on an individual lab to highlight the people behind the work. These are their stories.   Dr. Tory Hendry Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology CIHMID URE Director CIHMID MFF […]

More information about the program and a link to the application can be found HERE: https://cihmid.cornell.edu/…/mff-reu/ The application portal for the Microbial Friends & Foes Research Experience for Undergraduates will be open from Dec. 1 through Feb. 1, 2025. Please note that, due to the nature of our funding, the program can only accept U.S. […]

Lucas studies how populations and communities are shaped by interacting ecological and evolutionary dynamics that play out across space. Given the conceptual breadth of questions that interest him, Lucas uses a range of approaches (e.g., theory, experiments, population genomics) and systems (e.g., insect host–parasitoid, microbial[...]

Xander was born and raised in the Ithaca, NY area and completed his bachelors at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He went on to earn his PhD in chemistry and chemical biology in the labs of Dr. Andrew Fisher and Dr. Peter Beal at the[...]

Dan’s research focuses on the assembly and transmission of host-associated microbial communities. He is interested in understanding where your microbiota comes from in early life, how microbes are transmitted between hosts, and the ecological and evolutionary forces that shape these microbial communities as they develop[...]

Our lab seeks to understand and prevent spillover of zoonotic pathogens from wildlife to other species. We develop the science of pandemic prevention through collaborative, transdisciplinary science. We work in the field, the lab, and in silico, all with a commitment to translate the science[...]

I investigate what drives hosts’ contributing to pathogen dynamics across biological scales, from host-pathogen molecular interactions to host species interactions. To do so, I combine theoretical, observational, and experimental approaches, and consider various study systems in the lab and in the field, including emerging bat-borne[...]

The Hay lab uses methods from microbial ecology, physiology, genomics, and genetics to understand how human activities affect microbes in diverse environmental settings. For instance, we study how handling of milk collection kits affects the microbiome of pumped human milk. Students will use genomics to[...]

The Flyak lab studies human antibody response to viral pathogens. We try to answer questions like, how do human antibodies neutralize rapidly mutating viruses? And, how can we design vaccines that mimic effective antibody responses seen in some individuals? In our lab, we isolate antibodies[...]