{"id":4313,"date":"2019-10-24T14:13:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T21:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/school-of-informatics-computing-and-cyber-systems\/?p=4313"},"modified":"2019-10-24T14:29:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T21:29:01","slug":"nau-scientist-tracks-the-spread-of-a-dangerous-virus-throughout-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/nau-scientist-tracks-the-spread-of-a-dangerous-virus-throughout-arizona\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU scientist tracks the spread of a dangerous virus throughout Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Nile Virus\u2014a potentially deadly infection spread by mosquito bites\u2014is now a permanent resident of Arizona, according to a study by Northern Arizona University and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tgen.org\/\">Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen)<\/a>, an affiliate of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofhope.org\/homepage?msclkid=b10c978c2d5b13c9013dcb97fe0b77ea&amp;utm_source=bing&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=BRAND%20-%20City%20of%20Hope&amp;utm_term=cityofhope.com&amp;utm_content=Brand%20(Exact)&amp;gclid=CMjwnKn5rt8CFfmDxQIdfSgO4A&amp;gclsrc=ds\">City of Hope<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crystal Hepp<\/strong>, an assistant professor at NAU\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/\">School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems<\/a>, is the lead author on the study, which analyzed the genetic material of West Nile Virus (WNV) directly from mosquitos collected in Arizona to build out a genomic family tree of the virus. Researchers then used advanced computer algorithms to develop a theoretical model of how the virus moves around the American Southwest. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nau.edu\/nau-tgen-west-nile-virus\/#.XbITtuhKhaR\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Nile Virus\u2014a potentially deadly infection spread by mosquito bites\u2014is now a permanent resident of Arizona, according to a study by Northern Arizona University and the\u00a0Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of\u00a0City of Hope. Crystal Hepp, an assistant professor at NAU\u2019s\u00a0School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, is the lead author on the study, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":471,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-scholarly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/471"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}