Jonna Mazet Content

Time to Ramp Up �°��ϲ��Ļ��Ϣ Davis’ Response to Grand Challenges

Dave Jones — August 17, 2021 - 10:58am

Jonna Mazet, founder and former director of �°��ϲ��Ļ��Ϣ Davis’ One Health Institute, takes on new role as vice provost in charge of the university’s ramped-up response to the world’s grand challenges.

Ranking Virus Spillover Risk

Katherine E Kerlin — April 05, 2021 - 12:00pm

SARS-CoV-2 showed the world with devastating clarity the threat undetected viruses can pose to global public health. SpillOver, a new web application developed by scientists at the University of California, Davis, and contributed to by experts from all over the world, ranks the risk of wildlife-to-human spillover for newly discovered viruses.

Initiatives to Intercept Pandemics Through Genomics

Katherine E Kerlin — June 11, 2020 - 5:00am

Three major initiatives in biodiversity genomics — BIOSCAN, the Earth BioGenome Project and the Global Virome Project — have joined forces to deliver a “pandemic interception system” based upon comprehensive knowledge of pathogens and their hosts, explains a recent commentary in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Media Sources on Coronavirus Outbreak

Katherine E Kerlin — January 21, 2020 - 12:45pm

Charlotte Acharya, a staff research associate, talks with Kazunari Nozue and Nicole Slatterngren, research assistants, in the COVID testing laboratory on January 11, 2021.

Ambitious Global Virome Project Could Mark End of Pandemic Era

Katherine E Kerlin — February 22, 2018 - 3:55pm

The Global Virome Project is an international partnership to identify and halt the spread of the majority of the planet’s unknown viruses. Such an approach could mark the end of the Pandemic Era. It builds on and accelerates the work of USAID's PREDICT program, led by �°��ϲ��Ļ��Ϣ Davis.

LAURELS: Paleobiologist Receives Verrill Medal at Yale

Dave Jones — November 15, 2016 - 12:38pm

IN THIS COLUMN

Gerrat Vermeij documents the “arms race” among long-extinct mollusks and their predators
GSM faculty members make award-winning impact with “Impact Investing” study
One Health leader Jonna Mazet receives Vet Med’s Zoetis Award for Research Excellence
Konstantinos Papamichael, Michael Siminovitch, 2 others share award for paper on color-qua