The Parrish Lab

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Femi, Rob, Colin, Brian, Wendy, Alycia - May 2023
Lunch with Simon in Venice

"Studying the emergence and evolution of viruses in new hosts - at all scales"

Who we are, where we work, and background to our research:

We have worked on the emergence of new epidemic viruses since 1988, focusing on three models – canine parvovirus, H3N8 canine and equine influenza viruses, and H3N2 canine influenza virus.
We are at the Baker Institute for Animal Health, in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University. Our Institute was founded in 1950, so has been studying viruses for the past 72 years. We are about 1 mile from the main campus, but are all Cornell employees, graduate students and  trainees.

Colin Parrish interviewed, along with Cornell Virologists Susan Daniel and Gary Whittaker, by Vincent Racaniello for This Week in Virology (TWIV), and described some of our work.

While we work on viruses of dogs, cats and horses, we also have own animal companions who provide incentives for the work we do.

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Information about canine influenza viruses (CIV), and equine influenza virus (EIVs), including the viruses and their associated diseases. There we share our own research results, as well as summarize the information from other labs and published in the literature.

Rob, Simon and Heftzi meet with Dr. Edu Suarez at UPR - Ponce and check out the home lab sets developed for use during the pandemic.
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Rob discusses methods for deep sequencing parvovirus genomes - with Federica Bichicchi, the 2022 18th International Parvovirus Workshop, Rimini, Italy.