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NSF COMPASS Center @nsfcompass.bsky.social · 4d

Fun fact: She started her career as a diagnostician–and now focuses on research to solve the toughest diagnostic problems.

#COMPASSCenter #SciSky #OneHealth #VectorBiology #PathogenGenomics #Cornell #VirusResearch

NSF COMPASS Center @nsfcompass.bsky.social · 4d

At COMPASS, she’s teaming up with Dr. Kelly Speer to ask a bold question: could ticks spread mosquito-borne viruses? Their work is reshaping how we think about emergence.

“We are doing the groundwork to determine if ticks can spread mosquito-borne viruses as a new way to think about emergence.”

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NSF COMPASS Center @nsfcompass.bsky.social · 4d

🧬 Meet Dr. Laura Goodman, NSF COMPASS Co-Investigator and Assistant Professor at Cornell University.

Her lab studies pathogen genomics, tackling antimicrobial resistance, tick-borne diseases, and virus discovery at the intersection of human, animal, and environmental health.

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NSF COMPASS Center @nsfcompass.bsky.social · 11d

🌍 Fun fact: She once cooked and ate hippo along the Kavango River!

#COMPASSCenter #VirginiaTech #PandemicScience #PublicHealth

NSF COMPASS Center @nsfcompass.bsky.social · 11d

At COMPASS, Dr. Gerdes integrates lived experiences into pandemic science and studies how the public perceives pandemic risks–building more inclusive and trusted health responses.

“This project shows the power of humanists and scientists coming together to solve wicked challenges.”

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NSF COMPASS Center @nsfcompass.bsky.social · 11d

Her research unpacks how people interpret risk messages about infectious disease, and her forthcoming book, "Infectious Urgency," explores how urgency rhetorics shape international public health responses.

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NSF COMPASS Center @nsfcompass.bsky.social · 11d

📣 Meet Dr. Julie Gerdes, Assistant Professor of Technical & Scientific Communication at Virginia Tech and COMPASS Co-Investigator.

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NSF COMPASS Center @nsfcompass.bsky.social · 28d

“We’re working to evaluate and enhance how interdisciplinary knowledge around pandemics is produced and integrated within COMPASS and across science.”

#COMPASSCenter #ScienceOfScience #KnowledgeIntegration #PandemicResearch #Cornell #InterdisciplinaryScience #InformationScience

NSF COMPASS Center @nsfcompass.bsky.social · 28d

His team is developing data-driven tools to improve how knowledge about pandemics is created, shared, and connected across disciplines.

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NSF COMPASS Center @nsfcompass.bsky.social · 28d

Meet Dr. Yian Yin, Assistant Professor at Cornell and computational social scientist helping COMPASS understand how science works (and how to make it work better).

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NSF COMPASS Center @nsfcompass.bsky.social · Sep 10

Fun fact: He’s a Formula 1 racing fan–and a loyal supporter of Scuderia Ferrari 🏁🏎️

#COMPASSCenter #SciSky #JumpThrust #VirusResearch #InfectiousDiseases #Formula1Fan #Ferrari #Virology #UMichigan

NSF COMPASS Center @nsfcompass.bsky.social · Sep 10

At COMPASS, he’s identifying viral traits that control host range, helping train foundation models that can predict future zoonotic threats.

“What excites me most about COMPASS is learning how machine learning can help solve major problems in infectious diseases.”

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NSF COMPASS Center @nsfcompass.bsky.social · Sep 10

He studies how viruses mutate and evolve–tracking poliovirus, flu, and SARS-CoV-2 using advanced sequencing to better understand how viruses spread from person to person and across communities.

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NSF COMPASS Center @nsfcompass.bsky.social · Sep 10

🦠 Meet Dr. Adam Lauring, COMPASS Jump co-lead, Professor of Internal Medicine, and Chief of Infectious Diseases at the University of Michigan.

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NSF COMPASS Center @nsfcompass.bsky.social · Sep 8

#COMPASSCenter #SciSky #JumpThrust #AIForGood #KnowledgeGuidedML #ZoonoticViruses #PandemicPrediction #VirginiaTech

NSF COMPASS Center @nsfcompass.bsky.social · Sep 8

At COMPASS, he’s building models that predict mutations in viruses that could lead to zoonotic jumps.

“We’re building foundation models to predict mutations in viral sequences that lead to zoonotic jumps.”

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NSF COMPASS Center @nsfcompass.bsky.social · Sep 8

🤖 Meet Dr. Anuj Karpatne, AI researcher, COMPASS co-investigator, and Jump thrust co-lead!

He’s an Associate Professor in Computer Science at Virginia Tech, and his work focuses on knowledge-guided machine learning–AI tools designed with science in mind.

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NSF COMPASS Center @nsfcompass.bsky.social · Sep 8

🧬 Fun fact: While he humbly claims to lack fun facts, Dr. Parrish’s long-standing leadership and impact on virology speak for themselves.

#COMPASSCenter #VirusEvolution #JumpThrust #VeterinaryVirology #CornellUniversity #VirusResearch

NSF COMPASS Center @nsfcompass.bsky.social · Sep 8

At COMPASS, he’s part of the Jump thrust, digging into host barriers and viral evolution—how viruses jump species and cause new outbreaks.

“I focus on the host barriers to viruses and the evolutionary processes that lead them to cause epidemics in new hosts.”

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NSF COMPASS Center @nsfcompass.bsky.social · Sep 8

He’s been studying viruses and how they evolve to infect new hosts for decades, with leadership roles across the virology field and honors from the American Academy of Microbiology and the National Academy of Sciences.

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NSF COMPASS Center @nsfcompass.bsky.social · Sep 8

🧫 Meet Dr. Colin Parrish, COMPASS Co-Investigator and Professor of Virology at Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine.

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NSF COMPASS Center @nsfcompass.bsky.social · Sep 4

“Natural history collections are a treasure trove of biodiversity information through time!”

Fun fact: She’s from New Mexico and swears by green and red chile. If you ever visit, order your enchiladas Christmas-style to try both. 🌶️🎄

NSF COMPASS Center @nsfcompass.bsky.social · Sep 4

With two decades of experience and a deep background in zoology and comparative biology, Kelly uses natural history collections to track how West Nile Virus circulates in wildlife–helping the team uncover how outbreaks and spillovers happen over time.

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NSF COMPASS Center @nsfcompass.bsky.social · Sep 4

🦠 Say hi to Dr. Kelly Speer–COMPASS co-investigator and Assistant Professor at Northern Arizona University, where she studies host-parasite interactions through the lens of biodiversity and history.

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NSF COMPASS Center @nsfcompass.bsky.social · Jul 21

#NSFCOMPASS #MeharryMedicalCollege #empowerthrust #publichealth