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IMAGE: An assistant professor of biological sciences at Purdue University, Carpi uses her malaria expertise to track COVID-19 variants. view more
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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.
Purdue scientists use malaria expertise to track COVID-19 variants, inform policymakers on virus spread
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Giovanna Carpi, assistant professor of biological sciences at Purdue University. (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.
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(Purdue University photo/Rebecca McElhoe)
by: Alex Brown, Inside INdiana Business
Posted:
Apr 6, 2021 / 05:58 PM EST
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (Inside INdiana Business) A team of Purdue University scientists is using its expertise in tracking the spread of malaria in Africa to track COVID-19 in Indiana.
The university says the lab, led by Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences Giovanna Carpi, pivoted its efforts to study the virus that causes COVID, as well as its variants, when the pandemic began.
Purdue says the lab studies the genomics of infectious diseases to better understand how they spread.
“We study genomic epidemiology, large-scale genomic studies of communicable disease, and our lab is investing in new sequencing and informatic technologies to study the genomes of infectious diseases to understand transmission,” Carpi said. “This allows us to do sequencing in real time, to conduct genomic surveillance, which has transformed our understanding of the spread
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