WW team Spring 2024
Wastewater Surveillance
Currently partnered with Public Health Agency of Canada to surveil Pearson International Airport wastewater for SARS-CoV-2 lineage frequencies. This project is done in collaboration with Dr. Larry Goodridge at University of Guelph.
Other partnerships focus on assay development for other pathogen targets such as Flu/RSV, ToBRFV, enteric viruses and STBBIs.
Current lab members working on this project include Delaney Nash, Alyssa Overton, Jenn Knapp, Yemu Hungwe, Samran Prasla and Shiv Naik
INSPIRE project
Charles lab is part of the Integrated Network for the Surveillance of Pathogens (INSPIRE) network. Our role in this network is to develop a general sequencing assay that could be used to detect emerging public health threats for future pandemic preparedness.
Led by University of Windsor, the INSPIRE project is funded by the Canadian Biomedical Research Fund (CBRF) and is part of the Canadian Hub for Health Intelligence and Innovation in Infectious Diseases (HI3). We are please to be working with many academic and private partners in this large project. You can read more about the project goals and who is involved at the INSPIRE Net website.
