Educational Projects
Enterovirus D68 and Acute flaccid myelitis in Kids
Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) is a severe neurogenic disease in children caused by Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) virus. AFM is a polio-like illness defined by...
Tuberculosis Infection and Treatment: Finding Drug Resistant Variants by GWAS
One-third of the world’s population has been infected with tuberculosis (TB). TB is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). The disease has severe symptoms including...
COVID-19: Origin and Pathogenesis of SARS-COV2
COVID19 stands for “CoronaVirus Disease” and 19 is the year this pandemic started, 2019. The pathogen causing this disease is the SARS-COV-2, Severe Acute...
Liver Cancer Project: Bioinformatics for Precision Oncology
Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) is a leading cause of cancer related deaths worldwide. Hepatitis viral infection, alcohol/cirrhosis, genetic predisposition (inherited) are among the major risk...
Spodoptera frugiperda (fall armyworm)
The fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) is a moth native to the tropical regions of the western hemisphere from the United States to Argentina. It...
EBOLA: Deadly Mutations
Project Overview Ebola viruses are responsible for causing Ebola virus disease (EVD) in humans and other primates. This viral disease is also known as...
Crop drought stress and resistance
Summary: Drought is the most critical risk for world food security due to shortage in water resources. Great famines has occurred in the...
Analysis of the Changing Immune Response in Cancer
Macrophages (white blood cells) represent an important component of the tumor microenvironment that includes the entire cellular environment surrounding the tumor and plays a...
Patient Derived Xenograft Models
Animal models have been widely used for experimentation and the mouse is a signature organism that is present in many labs. In this project,...
Modeling Precision Medicine
Precision Medicine promises to revolutionize the way patients are...