Description: The Andersen Lab is using genomics, computational biology, and technology development to investigate infectious diseases such as Zika, Ebola, and Lassa.
We are using pathogen genomics to investigate how viruses such as Zika, West Nile, Ebola, Lassa, SARS-CoV-2, and monkeypox emerge and cause large-scale outbreaks. Using a combination of computational biology, experimentation, and field work, we aim to transform outbreak response and change the way we develop countermeasures.
At the Andersen Lab at Scripps Research we try to understand questions such as: how do viruses emerge, spread, evolve, and go from causing small-scale outbreaks to large-scale epidemics? How can we diagnose them better and discover novel ones? How do they develop resistance to countermeasures and what molecular and immunological factors govern the underlying mechanisms? Critically, by addressing these questions, can we develop new and effective vaccines and medicines, while informing outbreak responses? The
The Andersen Laboratory was established at Scripps Research in the summer of 2015 in beautiful La Jolla, California. We are strong proponents of open data and open science, and we are big believers in collaborating across scientific disciplines. To this end, we are actively engaged in several of our research initiatives, including the Global Health Initiative at Scripps Research , the Center for Viral Systems Biology , the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium , the West African Research Network for Infectious