Check out this blog post explainer that Mitchell Ramuta put together describing our Nature Communications paper on detecting SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses in air from schools and other congregate settings! microbiologycommunity.nature.com/posts/in-the-a…

There’s Something in the Air: Monitoring Indoor Air for #SARSCoV2 Air surveillance in indoor spaces where people gather can be an important complement to clinical and wastewater data Mitchell Ramuta Dave O'Connor oconnorlab go.nature.com/3cB6Bk1

Our paper with John Dennehy 🇺🇦 @RoseKantor Dave O'Connor describing the first 9 cryptic lineages of SARS-CoV-2 identified from wastewater (from 3 states) is now online. journals.plos.org/plospathogens/…

For those of you that have asked me why I am convinced that cryptic lineages are coming from people, I can finally point to a pre-print with Dave O'Connor and many fantastic collaborators in the UWisc and Wisc Public Health. medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Our newest preprint showing that African lineage Zika virus infection causes frequent pregnancy loss in 2-3 weeks in monkeys is now in Biorxiv (Lauren Raasch and Jenna Rosinski can provide more details)!: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Updated version of our preprint describing a Wisconsin cryptic lineage is now in Medrxiv at medrxiv.org/content/10.110…. I'll leave it to Marc Johnson to do the twittering about it. Congrats to all involved!

Big week for Dr. Mitchell Ramuta - successfully defended his PhD thesis yesterday and had his last manuscript in the lab posted to Medrxiv today! When he's back online he can Twitter summarize. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to see viral air sampling from our work in K-12 schools as part of @publichealthmdc 's updated respiratory illness dashboard. publichealthmdc.com/coronavirus/da…

With a great segment from Marc on our search for a cryptic lineage in Wisconsin.

Congratulations to Kainalu/Trent Prall who is now Dr. Trent following his successful Ph.D. defense!

This news is about as good as it gets. Landmark day in HIV research.

Adding it here for visibility. Looking to start routinely monitoring dairy products from Wisconsin milk and cream producers. NO H5N1 found in ANY Wisconsin retail products tested thus far, want to use retail monitoring to provide one type of early indication in case this changes.