Welcome to the Center for Virus Research

Bert L. Semler gave the John Holland Plenary lecture on "Persistent Enterovirus Genomic Variants and their Involvement in Cardiac Pathogenesis" at the 2022 American Society for Virology Meeting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Dr. Tinoco and his lab members recently published a paper in Frontiers in Immunology. You may view the paper here.

Congratulations to Dr. Lisa Wagar, Assistant Professor Biophysics and Physiology, for being selected as a recipient of the the inaugural Michelson Philanthropies & Science Prize for Immunology for her essay entitled “Small centers of defense: Deciphering immune responses to viruses and vaccines ...

 “The younger the children were, the more hesitant the parents were to have them vaccinated,” Hopfer said.Read the article here

Andrew Noymer, a UC Irvine professor of population health and disease prevention, said he’s not currently worried about the variant because transmission of the virus is low, which he attributes partly to the seasonal nature of the virus. Read the ...

Anthony A. James, a professor of molecular biology and biochemistry at UC Irvine, told me the Aedes mosquito previously had a tough time gaining a foothold in California “because winters were cool and long enough to challenge their survival.” “As ...