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IMAGE: An assistant professor of biological sciences at Purdue University, Carpi uses her malaria expertise to track COVID-19 variants.
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Credit: Purdue University photo/Rebecca McElhoe
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Scientists have been using genetics to track diseases for decades. Now, a team at Purdue University that typically tracks malaria spread in Southern and Central Africa is using its expertise to track COVID-19 in Indiana.
Giovanna Carpi's lab studies the genomics of infectious diseases to better understand how they spread. An assistant professor of biological sciences, she focuses her research primarily on malaria. With the onset of the pandemic, her lab pivoted to study the genomic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, including tracking variants.