Ott Lab News

The Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI) at UCSF presents “Scientific Collaborations Across Borders: QBI/Institut Pasteur: Epigenetic Modifications and Human Pathogenic Viruses,” a QBI Fireside Chat on October 20, 2021 at 10AM PT, co-organized by the Office for Science and Technology of the French Embassy in San Francisco. This “fireside chat” featured ...

Gladstone Institutes — Now, with a $26.5-million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a multi-disciplinary group of researchers from institutions around the world is trying a completely new strategy for curing HIV. The group, known as the HIV Obstruction by Programmed Epigenetics (HOPE) Collaboratory, will be led by researchers at Gladstone ...

Gladstone Institutes — Virus mutation and vaccination gap spur rise in cases nationwide

Gladstone Institutes — The Gladstone Institutes released an article about Dr. Melanie Ott and Dr. Albert Vallejo Gracia’s work on HIV.

Nature — Melanie Ott, a virologist at the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology in San Francisco, California, co-developed a smartphone-based COVID-19 diagnostic test10 with Daniel Fletcher, a bioengineer at the University of California, Berkeley. According to Fletcher, the test is more sensitive than standard laboratory plate readers, and faster than the gold-standard reverse-transcription PCR test for SARS-CoV-2.

The Daily Star — On May 2, 2020, Ott Lab graduate student Mir Khalid presented a live virology class for BioTED, a Bangladeshi biotechnology company for education. Khalid presented on the molecular biology of the SARS-CoV2 virus and pathogenesis of COVID-19, and his lecture had more than 6,500 viewers. Since then, he has also presented about COVID-19 for the Coronacast Facebook group, and that presentation has 14,000 views.