Plans call for construction of a 14,000-square-foot building within the Judson Harper Research Complex on the south side of CSU’s Foothills Campus. The new facility would be adjacent to the existing Center for Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases.
The new mosquito-tagging method being developed at CSU has the potential to revolutionize how mosquito-borne disease are studied.
The Verena Biology Integration Institute will advance a cross-disciplinary research agenda that targets significant sources of emerging infectious diseases.
VIDEO: Dr. Angela Bosco-Lauth is studying chicken eggs to look at transmission of West Nile virus.
As a veterinary microbiologist at Colorado State University, Anna Fagre is used to studying viruses in animals. But over the last six months, Fagre and scientists like her have been consumed by the opposite problem: stopping humans from passing a deadly virus on to animals.
Bats and humans depend on the caves that pockmark the Mount Elgon caldera in eastern Uganda, making it the perfect field site to study human-bat interactions and emerging viral pathogens.
Detection of nucleic acid in bats in the wild indicates that they are naturally infected or exposed through the bite of infected mosquitoes.
A chat with Dr. Rushika Perera, an associate professor of virology and the chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee, and Alex Bailey, a member of the College’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee and a third-year student in the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine program.