IB faculty and doctoral student receive W.M. Keck Foundation grant

Peter Sudmant on the top half of the image and Michael Singer on the bottom half of the image

IB professor Peter Sudmant, a genome scientist and expert in computational biology, and Ph.D. candidate Michael Singer are researching the "extreme" immune systems of bats through long-read sequencing which provides data for predicting and preventing future bat-borne viral transmission to human populations. The grant will support faculty and their graduate student collaborators to maintain progress on high-risk, high-impact work. Read the full story in Berkeley Inspire.