From Water to Air; Scientific Pathways towards a Clearer, Cleaner Future.
Melanie Ott
Director, Gladstone Institute of Virology
Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Talk Title — Portable CRISPR Point of Care Detection of Covid-19
"Airborne pathogens are on the rise and affect everybody. In order to get ahead, interdisciplinary collaborations are necessary to know what is in the air around us all the time.”
Melanie Ott
Melanie Ott, M.D., Ph.D. is the director of the Gladstone Institute of Virology and a professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco. She studied under Nobel laureate Harald zur Hausen in Heidelberg/Germany and has been recognized for her contributions to HIV Cure research and the pathogenesis of hepatitis C and Zika virus infections. Since January 2020, she has pivoted part of her efforts to SARS-CoV-2 research. Her work is focused on infectious SARS-CoV-2 and harnessing the host response for new therapeutics. Her lab also develops new rapid diagnostics based on CRISPR and mobile phone technologies. Melanie is an elected member of the Association of American Physicians (AAP) and a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM).
