Innovative Surveillance: A New Tool in the Fight Against COVID-19
Read how Wadsworth Center scientists adapted the tools they already had to increase COVID surveillance capacity.
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Innovative Surveillance: A New Tool in the Fight Against COVID-19
Fellowship Showcase: Highlights from the 2021-2022 Wadsworth Center Fellows
Wadsworth Center is committed to the continuing education of the next generation of public health laboratorians. In partnership with the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Wadsworth Center has offered full-time, working fellowships to graduate and post-graduate scientists for more than 25 years.
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Fellowship Showcase: Highlights from the 2021-2022 Wadsworth Center Fellows
Governor Hochul Announces First Phase of New $750 Million Wadsworth Public Health Laboratory
See Governor Hochul's April 21, 2022 press release.
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Governor Hochul Announces First Phase of New $750 Million Wadsworth Public Health Laboratory
Wadsworth Center Collaborates as part of CRyPTIC: Comprehensive Resistance Prediction for Tuberculosis: an International Consortium
Tuberculosis - The Tortoise
Would you be surprised to know that tuberculosis (TB) was the leading infectious disease killer in the world in 2019? Estimates of deaths attributed to TB were second only to COVID-19 in 2020 (roughly 1.5 million versus 1.8 million reported deaths, respectively). In the ongoing race to be the microbe responsible for the largest number of deaths across the planet, “hares” like HIV and SARS-CoV-2 explode onto the scene and appear to leave everyone else in the dust.
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Wadsworth Center Collaborates as part of CRyPTIC: Comprehensive Resistance Prediction for Tuberculosis: an International Consortium
Lab Week Celebrates the Hard Work and Dedication of Public Health Laboratory Staff
Wadsworth Center joins with the Association of Public Health Laboratories to celebrate Lab Week April 24-30, 2022.
Follow the links to learn about the many ways public health laboratorians help to keep us safe every day - from environmental testing to infectious disease testing to newborn screening.
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Lab Week Celebrates the Hard Work and Dedication of Public Health Laboratory Staff
Wadsworth Center Identifies Two Sub-lineages of BA.2—BA.2.12 and BA.2.12.1—Potentially Contributing to Increased Transmission Reported in Central New York and Surrounding Regions
Please see New York State Department of Health Press Release
More about COVID-19 Variant Data
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Wadsworth Center Identifies Two Sub-lineages of BA.2—BA.2.12 and BA.2.12.1—Potentially Contributing to Increased Transmission Reported in Central New York and Surrounding Regions
Wadsworth Center’s Dr. Klemen Strle Featured on the Cover of Nature Reviews Rheumatology
A culmination of work in Lyme arthritis in patients and in animal models, the review highlights the paradigm that infectious agents may trigger immune dysregulation and autoimmunity, leading to persistent post-infectious sequelae.Lyme arthritis: linking infection, inflammation and autoimmunity.Lochhead RB, Strle K, Arvikar SL, Weis JJ, Steere AC. Nat Rev Rheumatol. 2021 Aug;17(8):449-461. doi: 10.1038/s41584-021-00648-5. Epub 2021 Jul 5. PMID: 34226730 Review.Cover used courtesy Springer Nature Limited.
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Wadsworth Center’s Dr. Klemen Strle Featured on the Cover of Nature Reviews Rheumatology
1st Place. 3 Minute Thesis.
Rachel Fay, Ph.D. candidate in Wadsworth Center’s Arbovirology Laboratory, under the mentorship of Dr. Alex Ciota, took first place in the University at Albany’s fourth annual Three Minute Thesis competition with her talk titled, “Increasing the resolution of vector-borne diseases and climate change”. The contest gives all graduate students across all fields at the University at Albany a chance to present their work.
Listen to Rachel’s talk.
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1st Place. 3 Minute Thesis.
Dr. Nicholas Mantis Awarded $9 Million Contract to Aid in Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease
Dr. Nicholas Mantis, of Wadsworth Center's Division of Infectious Diseases, was awarded a five-year, $9 million contract by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to study human antibody responses to the Lyme disease pathogen, Borrelia burgdorferi.
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Dr. Nicholas Mantis Awarded $9 Million Contract to Aid in Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease
A New Game Plan - Wadsworth Center’s Dr. Jon Paczkowski Awarded $1.8 Million NIH Grant to Study Regulation of Virulence Factors
​Current antibiotics work by interfering with bacterial growth, which is a fine game plan… until it stops working. More and more, bacteria are finding ways around this approach, resulting in a huge antibiotic resistance problem. Dr. Jon Paczkowski may just have come up with a new defensive strategy and recently received a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate.
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A New Game Plan - Wadsworth Center’s Dr. Jon Paczkowski Awarded $1.8 Million NIH Grant to Study Regulation of Virulence Factors
Radical Solutions: Diagnosing and Even Predicting COVID-caused MIS-C
As we’ve seen repeatedly during the pandemic, it isn’t always easy to get our hands on everything we need, hmmm, cue the toilet paper, especially new things. This reality translates to addressing patients who have COVID today. By using tools we already have in labs across the country, we can capitalize on the technology, instruments and the know how to use them by using them in new ways.
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Radical Solutions: Diagnosing and Even Predicting COVID-caused MIS-C
Wadsworth Center Scientists Featured in Association of Public Health Laboratories' Lab Matters
Dr. St. George is quoted in the feature article beginning on page 5 and our own Infectious Disease Fellow Nora Cleary is featured on pg 19.
Nora has been selected for the Edith Hsiung Memorial prize for her abstract/presentation on Hep A whole genome sequencing. This is one of the two top travel awards from the American Society for Microbiology for a student, fellow, or technologist, presenting their work at the annual, international Clinical Virology Symposium, to be held this year in West Palm Beach.
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Wadsworth Center Scientists Featured in Association of Public Health Laboratories' Lab Matters
Under Construction…Permanently. 25 Years of Wadsworth Center’s Clinical Laboratory Information Management System (CLIMS)
Having spent a lot of time in our homes recently, most of us are probably contemplating a dream renovation. If that project requires several professionals - plumbers, electricians, carpenters, etc., we might have second thoughts.
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Under Construction…Permanently. 25 Years of Wadsworth Center’s Clinical Laboratory Information Management System (CLIMS)
Detecting Antimicrobial Resistance in Biological Threat Agents
Read on page 26 of Association of Public Health Laboratories' Fall/Winter Lab Matters Issue about Wadsworth Center's Collaboration with CDC's Biodefense Research and Development Laboratory.
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Detecting Antimicrobial Resistance in Biological Threat Agents
Wadsworth Center’s Laboratory of Organic Analytical Chemistry Continues to Test Vaping Fluids Suspected of Causing Illness From New York State
In 2019, cases of a mysterious illness related to vaping, formally referred to as “e-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury” (EVALI), were identified across the United States. A significant number of cases affected young New Yorkers. In association with NY Regional Poison Control Centers and medical facilities from around the state, Wadsworth Center’s Laboratory of Organic Analytical Chemistry analyzed vape fluid samples from suspected cases for cannabinoids, pesticides, synthetic cannabinoids, opioids, illicit drugs, an
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Wadsworth Center’s Laboratory of Organic Analytical Chemistry Continues to Test Vaping Fluids Suspected of Causing Illness From New York State
Wadsworth Center Leads the Way in Number of NYS COVID Variants Sequenced
SARS-CoV-2, like all viruses, is constantly creating new variants through mutation of its RNA genome. Most mutations are of little or no consequence. However, every once in a while, a new mutation can increase transmissibility, increase disease severity, cause the virus to escape the body’s immune response, or do any combination of these.
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Wadsworth Center Leads the Way in Number of NYS COVID Variants Sequenced
Wadsworth Center, at the forefront of the fight against tuberculosis in NYS and globally, celebrates World TB Day 2021
The World Health Organization estimates that almost 4,000 people lose their lives to TB and close to 28,000 people contract TB every day. Currently, 13 million people in the United States live with latent (hidden) TB infection.
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Wadsworth Center, at the forefront of the fight against tuberculosis in NYS and globally, celebrates World TB Day 2021
Wadsworth Center's Michael Perry Receives Two National Awards
The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) is pleased to announce the winners of its annual awards (page 32) for outstanding achievements in laboratory science, creative approaches t
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Wadsworth Center's Michael Perry Receives Two National Awards
Deciphering the sleep/wake cycle of ribosomes in mycobacteria
Infections with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the etiological agent of tuberculosis (TB) in humans, are difficult to eradicate with antibiotics: a 6-month long multidrug regimen is necessary for the treatment of TB. The drug recalcitrance of TB infections has been associated with a specialized subpopulation of Mtb cells, that do not replicate or are very slow growing and whose metabolism is significantly decreased.
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Deciphering the sleep/wake cycle of ribosomes in mycobacteria
Seven Fellows, One Goal
Wadsworth Center has long been committed to providing the next generation of public health professionals with the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities.
More than 300 students have made Wadsworth Center their summer home over the course of nearly 30 years through the National Science Foundation-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program.
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Seven Fellows, One Goal