Jerry Parker, the Data Manager for the St. Jude Center of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance (SJCEIRS), retired in February 2017. The DPCC Communications team interviewed Jerry about his time with SJCEIRS. Since the start of the CEIRS program in 2008, Mr. Parker has been the principal architect that developed and maintained the SJCEIRS… Read more »

The beaches of Delaware Bay, New Jersey serve up a veritable feast of horseshoe crab eggs for flocks of migratory shorebirds every May. A new video from NIAID features CEIRS researchers who travel to the bay each year to test these shorebirds for avian influenza. The video highlights the Network’s ongoing efforts to track influenza… Read more »

Two CEIRS investigators are now at the helm of the American Society for Virology (ASV). After serving as President-Elect, Dr. Stacey Schultz-Cherry (SJCEIRS) is stepping up as President of ASV, and Dr. Andrew Pekosz (JHCEIRS) was just recently announced as the 2017-2018 President-Elect. These appointments emphasize their notable contributions and accomplishments to the field of… Read more »

The DPCC Communications team interviewed David Topham, PhD, co-Principal Investigator (co-PI) of the New York Influenza Center of Excellence (NYICE) and Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Rochester. As co-PI of NYICE, Dr. Topham collaborates extensively across NYICE and the CEIRS Network at large.  Dr. Topham’s research program includes… Read more »

Dr. Justin Bahl is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and part of the St. Jude Center of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance (SJCEIRS). He brings expertise in evolutionary biology to understand how influenza viruses emerge and evolve at the population level. Armed with a suite of… Read more »

This edition of the Behind the Bench (BTB) column is written by Joshua Lorbach, a graduate student at The Ohio State University, who studies the ecology and epidemiology of influenza and other viruses in birds and swine. The BTB series publishes articles written by CEIRS Network graduate students and postdoctoral fellows sharing their perspective on… Read more »

The United States commercial poultry market has been hit with outbreaks of H5 and H7 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) during the past three years. Collaborators from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Wild Bird Surveillance, St. Jude Center of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance (SJCEIRS), Mississippi State University, and US Department of Agriculture… Read more »

NIAID CEIRS | Research Publication Commentary Rialdi, A, Campisi, L et al. Topoisomerase 1 inhibition suppresses inflammatory genes and protects from death by inflammation. Science. (2016). The immune system is essential for defending our bodies against invading microbes. However, the magnitude of its response to infection must be tightly controlled. An overactive response can cause… Read more »

The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses recently approved the naming of influenza D virus as a new species. The committee announced the new species and assigned it a new genus in the Orthomyxoviridae family, distinct from influenza A, B and C viruses. The virus was first identified and characterized by researchers at South Dakota… Read more »

An article published recently in TakePart digital magazine features Dr. Andrew Bowman and his research at the Ohio State University, part of the St. Jude Center of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance (SJCEIRS). The article follows Dr. Bowman and PhD student Jacqueline Nolting as they hunt for influenza viruses and vividly illustrates their work… Read more »