UC Davis COVID-19 Research and Researchers in the News (Week of 5/11)

UC Davis COVID-19 Research and Researchers in the News (Week of 5/11)

 

Press Releases and News Outlet Pickups

UC Davis Press Release (5/12): 2nd COVID-19 Info Webinar: May 14
UC Davis Distinguished Professor Walter Leal's first COVID-19 public awareness symposium drew an audience of more than 1,000, and this week he ...

UC Davis Health Press Release (5/12): Can a drug developed for sickle cell anemia mitigate lung damage in patients with COVID-19
UC Davis scientists provide senicapoc for COVID-19 clinical trial in Denmark.

UC Davis Press Release (5/13): Grant to Track Evolution of Novel Coronavirus With Math
As the disease COVID-19 spreads across the planet, scientists continue to ... To stay a step ahead of the virus, an interdisciplinary team of UC Davis ...

Older UC Davis Press Release (4/29): COVID-19 Vaccine With Patch Delivery Technology Enters Preclinical Testing at UC Davis
“Our new approach and previous work enabled us to quickly bring a potential vaccine against COVID-19 to preclinical testing. UC Davis provides a ...

Older UC Davis Press Release (5/1): As Americans Shelter in Place, Traffic, Emissions and Fuel-Tax Revenues Decline Dramatically
The report, “Impact of COVID19 Mitigation on Traffic, Fuel Use and Climate Change” is available on the UC Davis Road Ecology Center website.

 

Other UC Davis Research and Research Studies in the News

Drug discovered in UCD lab may control inflammatory response to COVID-19
Davis Enterprise
A drug discovered in the Bruce Hammock laboratory at the UC Davis may control the body's inflammatory response to COVID-10 and could help ...

As some restaurants reopen, model shows how coronavirus can spread farther than 6 feet
CBS News
other researchers from the University of Oregon and the University of California, Davis have written a paper focused on...

American scientist: wear a mask, normal breath can also be infected with the new coronavirus
Adotas
speech in spreading coronavirus? Aerosol scientists at the University of California, Davis said that the normal speech of......

Scientists Aren't Sure If Air Conditioners Can Spread Coronavirus
MSN Canada
breeze? A new paper from academics at the University of Oregon and UC Davis synthesized previous research of the “built...

Talking Can Generate Coronavirus Droplets That Linger Up to 14 Minutes
New York Times
Another paper, published in January by researchers from the University of California Davis, found the vowel sound “e” in “need” produces more...

SARS-CoV-2: Why, when, and how to test veterinary patients
Dvm360
discussion sponsored by Idexx Laboratories and hosted by the University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary...

Innovative technologies to address COVID-19 funded by UC's CITRIS
UC Santa Cruz (press release)
All are centered in one of four CITRIS-affiliated UC campuses: UC Berkeley, UC Davis (including UC Davis Health), UC Merced, and UC Santa Cruz.

UC Merced Part of CITRIS's COVID-19 Rapid Response Grants
UC Merced University News
CITRIS is headquartered at UC Berkeley, but has branches at UC Merced, UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz. Each project receives about $50,000, and ...

How Can a Restaurant’s Airflow Patterns Affect Transmission Rates of Airborne Virus Particles?
The Doctor’s Channel
Researchers from UC Davis and the University of Oregon have created a 3D model of how airflow in a restaurant dining room might...

Researchers release data sets to train coronavirus chatbots
VentureBeat
, San Deigo; Carnegie Mellon University; and the University of California, Davis proposes AI chatbots that generate...

 

UC Davis Researchers and Experts Providing Insight

Jonathan Eisen, a UC Davis evolutionary biologist

Koen Van Rompay, an infectious disease scientist

Benjamin Houlton, a professor of environmental science

Dan Sperling, transportation engineering professor

Mikel Delgado, a cat behavior researcher

Christine Johnson, professor of epidemiology and ecosystem health

Tierra Smiley Evans, an epidemiologist at the One Health Institute

Kent Pinkerton, professor of pediatrics from the School of Medicine

William Ristenpart, a chemical engineering professor

Dr. Niels Pedersen, School of Veterinary Medicine Distinguished Professor Emeritus 

Dan Sumner, Agricultural Economist

Scott Anderson, M.D., Ph.D., clinical professor

Eric Rauchway, distinguished professor of history

Bruno Chomel, a professor of veterinary medicine

Nam Tran, senior director of clinical pathology in charge of COVID-19 testing at UC Davis Health

Richard Frank, a professor of environmental practice

Alison Van Eenennaam, Department of Animal Science

Pranav Pandit, a veterinary epidemiologist

Dr. Keith Watenpaugh, UC Davis Human Rights Studies Professor and Director 

Dean Blumberg, M.D., professor of medicine and chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Elisa Tong, project director for the University of California Tobacco Cessation Network

Paul Knoepfler, UC Davis biologist

Dr. Nathan Kuppermann, UC Davis Health Pediatric Emergency Medicine Professor and Emergency Medicine Chair 

Garen Wintemute, an epidemiologist and emergency room physician who runs the Violence Prevention Research Program

Kathryn Olmsted, a history professor

  • Los Angeles Times: A Conspiracy Pandemic
    Our guest is Kathryn Olmsted, a history professor at UC Davis who studies conspiracy theories.

Prasant Mohapatra, Vice-Chancellor (Research)

Richard Sexton, an agricultural economist