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UCSB, Cottage Health Launch Research Projects to Track Coronavirus Variants in the Community UC Santa Barbara researchers and Cottage Health have complementary research projects to track and better understand novel coronavirus variants in the community UC Santa Barbara graduate student Zach Aralis uses equipment to sequence novel coronavirus samples as part of a research project to track virus variants in Santa Barbara County.  (Jennifer Smith / UCSB photo ) By Jade Martinez-Pogue, Noozha...

By Sonia Fernandez for UCSB March 1, 2021 | 1:30 p.m. In an effort to get ahead of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its variants in Santa Barbara County, UC Santa Barbara, Cottage Health and Santa Barbara County Public Health Department (SBCPHD) have launched parallel, collaborative COVID-19 virus variant surveillance projects. The goal is to determine which recently emerged variants of concern might be present in the local community, and to understand how their distribution changes over time. �...

Courtesy image In an effort to get ahead of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its variants in Santa Barbara County, UC Santa Barbara and Cottage Health have launched parallel, collaborative COVID-19 virus variant surveillance projects. The goal is to determine which recently emerged variants of concern might be present in the local community, and to understand how their distribution changes over time. “In addition to just basic science interest, knowing more about these variants could also influence o...

January 7, 2021 at 11:30 am by Devanshi Tomar As the next step in the COVID-19 testing program on campus, members of the COVID-19 Response Team recently established a Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments-certified laboratory — an on-campus lab approved for conducting COVID-19 diagnostic tests. The lab allows for coordination of patient sample acquisition of tests, testing logistics, case management and contact tracing efforts.  Dr. Jose Carlos Ponce Rojas, a postdoctoral...

Housing and Development Newsletter And that doesn’t even cover the myriad other contributions from other departments that helped make the lab a reality, Feinstein said. “Everybody has been phenomenally cooperative,” he said. “The lab didn’t get put together by three or four people; it really took many dozens of people spending a lot of Zoom time.” The establishment of the CLIA lab at UCSB is even more impressive given it was accomplished in a fraction of the time it normally takes l...