Richard Allen White III
Department / Unit
Charlotte
Position Title
Assistant Professor
TOPIC: Unlocking the Bat Immune Systems' Resilience as Sentinels of Global Health
Dr. Richard Allen White III is an Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics and Genomics, working as a computational and synthetic molecular virologist who unravels the ‘virosphere,’ the totality of viruses, and their biosphere interactions. He has a toolkit of knowledge that includes multi-omics (measuring DNA/RNA with NextGen Sequencing, protein/lipids/metabolites with Mass Spectrometry), computational methods, and synthetic biology elucidate the virosphere.
Dr. White’s work focuses on understanding how bats resist disease which could help us not only understand the mammalian 'resistome’’s application to humans but also paths to prevent the extinction of bats within the wild. UNC Charlotte with collaboration with University of Michigan is not only trying to unlock the bat immune system via an NIH funded program called BITE (Bat Immunological Training Education) but also training the next generation of viral ecoimmunologists to tackle and prevent the next potential pandemic.
Dr. White’s work focuses on understanding how bats resist disease which could help us not only understand the mammalian 'resistome’’s application to humans but also paths to prevent the extinction of bats within the wild. UNC Charlotte with collaboration with University of Michigan is not only trying to unlock the bat immune system via an NIH funded program called BITE (Bat Immunological Training Education) but also training the next generation of viral ecoimmunologists to tackle and prevent the next potential pandemic.
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