Center for Emerging, Zoonotic, and Arthropod-Borne Pathogens
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Advancing science & developing effective countermeasures against emerging infectious diseases at Virginia Tech.
Congratulations to Mohamed Seleem on being named a 2025 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors 🎉
His patented drugs and diagnostics technologies target antimicrobial-resistant infections, which kill 1.27M+ people annually worldwide.
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His patented drugs and diagnostics technologies target antimicrobial-resistant infections, which kill 1.27M+ people annually worldwide.
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Mohamed Seleem elected fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
The Virginia Tech bacteriologist's 21 patents target a global crisis of antimicrobial-resistant infections that kill 1.27 million people annually.
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January 12, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Congratulations to Mohamed Seleem on being named a 2025 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors 🎉
His patented drugs and diagnostics technologies target antimicrobial-resistant infections, which kill 1.27M+ people annually worldwide.
news.vt.edu/articles/202...
His patented drugs and diagnostics technologies target antimicrobial-resistant infections, which kill 1.27M+ people annually worldwide.
news.vt.edu/articles/202...
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We have 5 new #postdoc openings @virginiatech.bsky.social
with application deadlines in Jan & Feb, including work looking at PFAS in water based in Manassas, VA, & 2 positions in the Marston Research Group @vtengineering.bsky.social.
List of all postdoc openings: bit.ly/vt-postdoc-o...
with application deadlines in Jan & Feb, including work looking at PFAS in water based in Manassas, VA, & 2 positions in the Marston Research Group @vtengineering.bsky.social.
List of all postdoc openings: bit.ly/vt-postdoc-o...
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January 12, 2026 at 2:26 PM
We have 5 new #postdoc openings @virginiatech.bsky.social
with application deadlines in Jan & Feb, including work looking at PFAS in water based in Manassas, VA, & 2 positions in the Marston Research Group @vtengineering.bsky.social.
List of all postdoc openings: bit.ly/vt-postdoc-o...
with application deadlines in Jan & Feb, including work looking at PFAS in water based in Manassas, VA, & 2 positions in the Marston Research Group @vtengineering.bsky.social.
List of all postdoc openings: bit.ly/vt-postdoc-o...
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We are excited to invite abstract submissions for talks and posters for the 2026 Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases meeting at Virginia Tech (June 2-4). Abstract submissions should be made by February 3, 2026 for consideration, using the google form here: cpe.vt.edu/eeid2026/abs...
December 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
We are excited to invite abstract submissions for talks and posters for the 2026 Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases meeting at Virginia Tech (June 2-4). Abstract submissions should be made by February 3, 2026 for consideration, using the google form here: cpe.vt.edu/eeid2026/abs...
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Mohamed Seleem, whose patented drugs and diagnostic technologies aim to combat infections that kill more than 1.27 million people worldwide each year, has been named a 2025 fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
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December 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Mohamed Seleem, whose patented drugs and diagnostic technologies aim to combat infections that kill more than 1.27 million people worldwide each year, has been named a 2025 fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
🔗: bit.ly/48ArFkN
🔗: bit.ly/48ArFkN
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Check out our newest paper on mosquito sugar feeding! 🦟🌸
This study was led M. VanderGiessen, F. Upshur & M. Cartadena-Guzman. A great collaboration with L. Escobar & @thevinaugerlab.bsky.social!
@globalchangebio.bsky.social @vtbiochemistry.bsky.social
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This study was led M. VanderGiessen, F. Upshur & M. Cartadena-Guzman. A great collaboration with L. Escobar & @thevinaugerlab.bsky.social!
@globalchangebio.bsky.social @vtbiochemistry.bsky.social
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Effect of landscape heterogeneity on mosquito abundance and sugar feeding behavior
Abstract. Mosquito-borne diseases pose a dire threat to humanity, claiming over 700,000 lives annually. At the local scale, the interplay between several e
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November 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Check out our newest paper on mosquito sugar feeding! 🦟🌸
This study was led M. VanderGiessen, F. Upshur & M. Cartadena-Guzman. A great collaboration with L. Escobar & @thevinaugerlab.bsky.social!
@globalchangebio.bsky.social @vtbiochemistry.bsky.social
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This study was led M. VanderGiessen, F. Upshur & M. Cartadena-Guzman. A great collaboration with L. Escobar & @thevinaugerlab.bsky.social!
@globalchangebio.bsky.social @vtbiochemistry.bsky.social
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During his visit to Virginia Tech to deliver the keynote address at the CeZAP Symposium, Vincent Racaniello recorded a podcast for This Week in Virology (TWiV) with X.J. Meng and Kylene Kehn-Hall.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgDg...
TWiV 1271: Hokies go viral II
YouTube video by MicrobeTV
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November 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
During his visit to Virginia Tech to deliver the keynote address at the CeZAP Symposium, Vincent Racaniello recorded a podcast for This Week in Virology (TWiV) with X.J. Meng and Kylene Kehn-Hall.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgDg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgDg...
Congratulations to Linsey Marr and Wujin Sun, CeZAP affiliates, for being named to Clarivate's Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list! 🎉
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news.vt.edu/articles/202...
Eight Virginia Tech researchers among world's most highly cited
A global company that maintains the Web of Science, Clarivate compiles an annual list of researchers who demonstrated significant influence through the publication of multiple highly cited papers duri...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Congratulations to Linsey Marr and Wujin Sun, CeZAP affiliates, for being named to Clarivate's Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list! 🎉
news.vt.edu/articles/202...
news.vt.edu/articles/202...
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#VirginiaTech researchers developed a mathematical model revealing how mosquito behavior influences disease transmission, offering new insights into how diseases like malaria, Zika, and dengue spread and how to suppress them.
🔗: brnw.ch/21wXssd
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November 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
#VirginiaTech researchers developed a mathematical model revealing how mosquito behavior influences disease transmission, offering new insights into how diseases like malaria, Zika, and dengue spread and how to suppress them.
🔗: brnw.ch/21wXssd
🔗: brnw.ch/21wXssd
Raj Gaji's lab at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine uncovers a critical protein that could lead to new treatments for toxoplasmosis — a hidden infection affecting 40 million Americans.
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Breaking the parasite's code
Veterinary college researcher discovers fatal weakness in parasite affecting 40 million Americans.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Raj Gaji's lab at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine uncovers a critical protein that could lead to new treatments for toxoplasmosis — a hidden infection affecting 40 million Americans.
news.vt.edu/articles/202...
news.vt.edu/articles/202...
🗓️ Day & Time: Tuesday, November 4th at 3:30 PM
📍 Location: Fralin Auditorium
Innovating Antimicrobial Strategies Through Structural Biology
📍 Location: Fralin Auditorium
Innovating Antimicrobial Strategies Through Structural Biology
November 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
🗓️ Day & Time: Tuesday, November 4th at 3:30 PM
📍 Location: Fralin Auditorium
Innovating Antimicrobial Strategies Through Structural Biology
📍 Location: Fralin Auditorium
Innovating Antimicrobial Strategies Through Structural Biology
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Welcome to the Discovery Lab, #VirginiaTech’s newest space for student-led innovation and research. 🤩
The 6,000-square-foot lab supports collaboration, prototyping, and hands-on learning for Hokies.
The 6,000-square-foot lab supports collaboration, prototyping, and hands-on learning for Hokies.
October 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Welcome to the Discovery Lab, #VirginiaTech’s newest space for student-led innovation and research. 🤩
The 6,000-square-foot lab supports collaboration, prototyping, and hands-on learning for Hokies.
The 6,000-square-foot lab supports collaboration, prototyping, and hands-on learning for Hokies.
🗓️ Tuesday, October 28 | 3:30 PM
📍 Fralin Auditorium
"Identification of novel anti-phage defense systems and their mechanisms of action"
📍 Fralin Auditorium
"Identification of novel anti-phage defense systems and their mechanisms of action"
October 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
🗓️ Tuesday, October 28 | 3:30 PM
📍 Fralin Auditorium
"Identification of novel anti-phage defense systems and their mechanisms of action"
📍 Fralin Auditorium
"Identification of novel anti-phage defense systems and their mechanisms of action"
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Could a “smoke alarm” for airborne contaminants monitor and improve the quality of the air indoors? (Where Americans spend 90 percent of their time!)
An interdisciplinary research team led by @linseymarr.bsky.social will create such a system that could cut respiratory illnesses by 25 percent. 👏
An interdisciplinary research team led by @linseymarr.bsky.social will create such a system that could cut respiratory illnesses by 25 percent. 👏
Up to $40 million in federal funding fuels research to revolutionize clean indoor air
With the contract from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, an interdisciplinary research team led by Virginia Tech and Linsey Marr will create a “smoke alarm” for airborne contaminants t...
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October 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Could a “smoke alarm” for airborne contaminants monitor and improve the quality of the air indoors? (Where Americans spend 90 percent of their time!)
An interdisciplinary research team led by @linseymarr.bsky.social will create such a system that could cut respiratory illnesses by 25 percent. 👏
An interdisciplinary research team led by @linseymarr.bsky.social will create such a system that could cut respiratory illnesses by 25 percent. 👏
🎉 Congrats to the 2025 CeZAP Research & Service Award recipients! 🎉
Honoring excellence in research, collaboration & service across CeZAP. 👏
Learn more 🔗 infectiousdisease.fralinlifesci.vt.edu/Symposium/20...
Honoring excellence in research, collaboration & service across CeZAP. 👏
Learn more 🔗 infectiousdisease.fralinlifesci.vt.edu/Symposium/20...
CeZAP Research and Service Awards
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October 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
🎉 Congrats to the 2025 CeZAP Research & Service Award recipients! 🎉
Honoring excellence in research, collaboration & service across CeZAP. 👏
Learn more 🔗 infectiousdisease.fralinlifesci.vt.edu/Symposium/20...
Honoring excellence in research, collaboration & service across CeZAP. 👏
Learn more 🔗 infectiousdisease.fralinlifesci.vt.edu/Symposium/20...
Today at 3:30pm in Fralin Auditorium
"Biphasic and conflicting subversion of cardiac intercellular junctions during adenoviral infection; implications for arrhythmogenesis”
"Biphasic and conflicting subversion of cardiac intercellular junctions during adenoviral infection; implications for arrhythmogenesis”
October 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Today at 3:30pm in Fralin Auditorium
"Biphasic and conflicting subversion of cardiac intercellular junctions during adenoviral infection; implications for arrhythmogenesis”
"Biphasic and conflicting subversion of cardiac intercellular junctions during adenoviral infection; implications for arrhythmogenesis”
Today at 3:30pm in Fralin Auditorium
"Developing pre-clinical animal models and novel vaccines for Cache Valley virus; an emerging Orthobunyavirus in North America."
"Developing pre-clinical animal models and novel vaccines for Cache Valley virus; an emerging Orthobunyavirus in North America."
October 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Today at 3:30pm in Fralin Auditorium
"Developing pre-clinical animal models and novel vaccines for Cache Valley virus; an emerging Orthobunyavirus in North America."
"Developing pre-clinical animal models and novel vaccines for Cache Valley virus; an emerging Orthobunyavirus in North America."
Today at 3:30pm 📍 Location: Fralin Auditorium
"Virus Vectors as Delivery Vehicles for Peptides and siRNAs: The Future of Crop Protection?"
"Virus Vectors as Delivery Vehicles for Peptides and siRNAs: The Future of Crop Protection?"
September 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Today at 3:30pm 📍 Location: Fralin Auditorium
"Virus Vectors as Delivery Vehicles for Peptides and siRNAs: The Future of Crop Protection?"
"Virus Vectors as Delivery Vehicles for Peptides and siRNAs: The Future of Crop Protection?"
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I'm thrilled to be leading, along with AJ Prussin II, an ARPA-H BREATHE team that will integrate new biosensors, risk assessment software, and engineering controls to bring clean and healthy indoor air to more buildings.
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BREATHE research teams kick off efforts to enhance indoor air quality to improve health, advance the future of smart buildings
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) supports transformative research to drive biomedical and health breakthroughs ranging from molecular to societal to provide transformative hea...
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September 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I'm thrilled to be leading, along with AJ Prussin II, an ARPA-H BREATHE team that will integrate new biosensors, risk assessment software, and engineering controls to bring clean and healthy indoor air to more buildings.
arpah.gov/news-and-eve...
arpah.gov/news-and-eve...
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The momentum for clean indoor air continues to build. I attended the inaugural High-Level Side Event on indoor air quality at the UN General Assembly yesterday. Short remarks by Lidia Morawska @joeallenjoe.bsky.social @isiaq.bsky.social Pres. Kerry Kinney, ASHRAE, WHO, UNEP, many others.
September 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The momentum for clean indoor air continues to build. I attended the inaugural High-Level Side Event on indoor air quality at the UN General Assembly yesterday. Short remarks by Lidia Morawska @joeallenjoe.bsky.social @isiaq.bsky.social Pres. Kerry Kinney, ASHRAE, WHO, UNEP, many others.
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New research findings from #VirginiaTech could make mosquito control faster, cheaper, and easier to scale. 🦟
A smarter way to control mosquitoes
Scientists have developed a new method to separate nonbiting male mosquitoes from disease-carrying females, a breakthrough that could make mosquito control faster, cheaper, and easier to scale.
news.vt.edu
September 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
New research findings from #VirginiaTech could make mosquito control faster, cheaper, and easier to scale. 🦟
🗓️ Tuesday, Sept 23 • 3:30 PM
📍 Fralin Auditorium
Join us today for CeZAP SPARK: the 5th ID IGEP Cohort will present research from their first lab rotations
📍 Fralin Auditorium
Join us today for CeZAP SPARK: the 5th ID IGEP Cohort will present research from their first lab rotations
September 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
🗓️ Tuesday, Sept 23 • 3:30 PM
📍 Fralin Auditorium
Join us today for CeZAP SPARK: the 5th ID IGEP Cohort will present research from their first lab rotations
📍 Fralin Auditorium
Join us today for CeZAP SPARK: the 5th ID IGEP Cohort will present research from their first lab rotations
Congratulations to CeZAP affiliate Bryan Hsu, assistant professor of biological sciences, on receiving the Blackwood Junior Faculty Fellowship!
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news.vt.edu/articles/202...
Bryan Hsu awarded faculty fellowship
A member of the Virginia Tech community since 2020, Hsu is involved in the Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program as well as in several programmatic functions of the Center for Emerging Zoono...
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September 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Congratulations to CeZAP affiliate Bryan Hsu, assistant professor of biological sciences, on receiving the Blackwood Junior Faculty Fellowship!
news.vt.edu/articles/202...
news.vt.edu/articles/202...
See you today at 3:30pm in Fralin Auditorium
"Tackling HPAI H5N1 with a One Health Approach"
"Tackling HPAI H5N1 with a One Health Approach"
September 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
See you today at 3:30pm in Fralin Auditorium
"Tackling HPAI H5N1 with a One Health Approach"
"Tackling HPAI H5N1 with a One Health Approach"
🎉 Congratulations to CeZAP affiliate Rana Ashkar! 🧪✨
Rana Ashkar, Associate Professor of Physics in the College of Science, has been awarded the Patricia Caldwell Faculty Fellowship by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors! 👏
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Rana Ashkar, Associate Professor of Physics in the College of Science, has been awarded the Patricia Caldwell Faculty Fellowship by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors! 👏
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Rana Ashkar awarded faculty fellowship
Ashkar is a recognized investigator in soft matter and biological physics. Her research on biomimetic lipid membranes, responsive polymeric systems, and tunable bio-interfaces has gained widespread in...
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September 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
🎉 Congratulations to CeZAP affiliate Rana Ashkar! 🧪✨
Rana Ashkar, Associate Professor of Physics in the College of Science, has been awarded the Patricia Caldwell Faculty Fellowship by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors! 👏
news.vt.edu/articles/202...
Rana Ashkar, Associate Professor of Physics in the College of Science, has been awarded the Patricia Caldwell Faculty Fellowship by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors! 👏
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