Neutralizing Antibody and Soluble ACE2 Inhibition of a Replication-Competent VSV-SARS-CoV-2 and a Clinical Isolate of SARS-CoV-2
James Brett Case, Paul W Rothlauf, Rita E Chen, Zhuoming Liu, Haiyan Zhao, Arthur S Kim, Louis-Marie Bloyet, Qiru Zeng, Stephen Tahan, Lindsay Droit, Ma Xenia G Ilagan, Michael A Tartell, Gaya Amarasinghe, Jeffrey P Henderson, Shane Miersch, Mart Ustav, Sachdev Sidhu, Herbert W Virgin, David Wang, Siyuan Ding, Davide Corti, Elitza S Theel, Daved H Fremont, Michael S Diamond, & Sean P J Whelan (2020). “Neutralizing Antibody and Soluble ACE2 Inhibition of a Replication-Competent VSV-SARS-CoV-2 and a Clinical Isolate of SARS-CoV-2” bioRxiv. 2020 May 18;2020.05.18.102038. doi: 10.1101/2020.05.18.102038. Preprint (Abstract)
Dr. George Drysdale, emeritus faculty member of our department, died March 17, 2020. We are saddened by the loss of our friend and colleague. Dr. Drysdale was a member of our department from 1954, when he arrived as a postdoctoral fellow to work with Mildred Cohn. He joined the faculty of the department in 1957 and continued as a member of our department faculty for the rest of his life.
Illuminating the Invisible: The Soranno Lab’s Study of APOE4 Conformations
On March 5th, 2020, the Department held a half day retreat at the Eric P. Newman Center located on the WU Medical Campus. All of the labs in the department introduced their lab members and questions their lab is working on in their lab.