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The Atlantic: Deer Are Beta-Testing a Nightmare Disease
Candace Mathiason, a pathobiologist at Colorado State University, and her colleagues have found that as little as 100 nanograms of saliva can seed a chronic wasting disease infection. Her studies suggest that deer can also pass prions in utero from doe to growing fawn.
Drug Discovery News: Hope for Prion Diseases
While most researchers are focusing on the prions themselves, Julie Moreno, a molecular biologist at Colorado State University, thinks that targeting downstream effects presents another promising therapeutic approach.
Chronic Wasting Disease Research and Management
Hear from leading experts at CSU, the United States Department of Agriculture and the National Parks Service about how chronic wasting disease impacts cervid populations around the globe, and what we've learned about prion-related infectious agents
In Memory: Dr. Edward A. Hoover
Edward “Ed” A. Hoover passed away peacefully on March 1, with family at his side. Ed was named one of twelve University Distinguished Professors at Colorado State University in 2004, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014, National Academy of Inventors in 2017, and received numerous other awards. Ed considered his most treasured accomplishment to be mentoring 27 graduate students, mostly DVM-PhDs, whose inquisitiveness and creativity he nurtured.
JAVMA News: Finding the spreaders of chronic wasting disease
“We’re testing them all for CWD, monitoring their movement, their reproduction, their survival—the whole shebang,” Dr. Ballard said. “And then ... samples will be submitted to Colorado State University for additional diagnostics.”
The Long Fight: Researchers tackle neurodegenerative diseases across species
Boettcher Investigator Julie Moreno and Dr. Stephanie McGrath conduct translational research in dogs with the goal of developing diagnostics and treatments for neurodegenerative diseases in humans.
CSU’s Julie Moreno named to 2021 Class of Boettcher Investigators
Moreno studies neurodegenerative diseases, including Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, and aging.
AlumLine: Candace Mathiason, Leader of a Scientific Community Researching COVID-19
Mathiason has an amazing talent for creating communities to work together for a common goal. For example, she has an interest in bringing other voices to scientific communication and leadership.
Beyond the basics: “Foundational science is the point of discovery”
I’ll give you a current example – the outbreak of a novel coronavirus in China. Foundational science asks: Where did this virus come from? How does it relate to the other viruses we already know about? Within weeks, the scientific community sequenced the entire genome of the novel strain and determined its relatedness to other coronaviruses.
One Health passport: Grad student studies prions and forges friendships in Japan
Kaityln Wagner studied prions and laid the groundwork for international collaborations during an externship at Hokkaido University in Japan.