Cara Brook
Branco Weiss Fellow, UC Berkeley | Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolution, University of Chicago | Disease Ecology, Conservation, Madagascar | she/her
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Join the Lab - Cara E. Brook
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Excited to announce that my new lab at the University of Chicago is recruiting PhD students, postdocs, and field techs to study the ecology and evolution of zoonotic diseases, starting fall 2021! brooklab.org/jointhelab pic.twitter.com/FjCj4mUcUV
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Don’t be duped by Eidolon dupreanum!
Today we release the genome of the third and last of the three species of Old World Fruit Bat endemic to the island of Madagascar: Eidolon dupreanum. Bats (order: Chiroptera) make up more than one-fifth of mammalian diversity, and they can broadly...
L’Institut Pasteur de Madagascar caractérise les deux premiers génomes complets de virus SARS-CoV-2 détectés à Madagascar en Mars 2020 - Institut Pasteur de Madagascar
Le 19 mars 2020, Madagascar notifiait le premier cas de COVID-19 chez une personne revenant d’Europe. Depuis cette date plus de 12 000 cas de
The bat-virus détente
Bats cope with myriad viruses, including the one causing Covid-19, with few ill effects. Scientists are probing their immune systems to fathom how they do it. The answers might help infected people, too.
Blueprint for a pop-up SARS-CoV-2 testing lab
Blueprint for a pop-up SARS-CoV-2 testing lab
Scientists believe Covid-19 may have roots in these bats - CNN Video
Anderson Cooper explores the world of bats and their importance to our ecology, economy and medical research in CNN Special Report "Bats: The Mystery Behind Covid-19." Watch Sunday at 10 p.m. ET.
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Tune in tomorrow at 7pm Pacific to hear me chat with CNN’s @AndersonCooper about ‘Bats and the Mystery of #COVID19’! 🦇
cnn.com/videos/health/… pic.twitter.com/bWp2dbfaGR
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Of Virulent Viruses and Reservoir Hosts
Bats are thought to harbor hundreds of coronaviruses, as well as many other types of viruses that are highly pathogenic in humans. Dr. Cara Brook and Professor Britt Glaunsinger will provide insight i...
Of Virulent Viruses and Reservoir Hosts
Live webcast: Friday, June 12 12–1 P.M. (Pacific) Add to Calendar This event will be broadcast live on this page.You can also watch this event live on the UC Berkeley Facebook page. Bats are though…
Bats Are Not Our Enemies
The viruses they carry spill over into humans mostly when we encroach on their territory or drag them into ours—and bats do great good as well
How ‘special’ are bats as reservoirs of human disease?
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Covid-19 Reignites a Contentious Debate Over Bats and Disease
Bats’ special relationship with viruses has attracted both awe from scientists and hatred from those who fear disease.
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Blueprint for a Pop-up SARS-CoV-2 Testing Lab
The appearance and spread of the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) led to the official declaration of a global pandemic, with states in the US implementing shelter in place orders at an unprecedented scale. SARS-CoV-2...
Why do bats carry deadly viruses?
From Ebola to Marburg, and coronavirus to rabies, bats carry some of the world's worst viruses. Why?
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I talked with Chris Smith from @NakedScientists podcast about our new paper in @eLife elucidating the links between the bat flight, antiviral immunity, and the evolution of virulent viruses -- listen here
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Why Do Pandemics Often Start With Bats? - WhoWhatWhy
Why do so many deadly viruses originate in bats?
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I went on the WhoWhatWhy podcast to talk about the zoonotic origins of COVID-19! Tagline is a bit more melodramatic than I would like, but the conversation is detailed and nuanced--listen here: whowhatwhy.org/2020/03/27/bat… @jeffs2009
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Why are bat viruses so harmful to humans?
The unique immune systems of bats may drive viruses to spread faster from cell to cell, giving those viruses the potential to cause extensive disease in humans and other animals.
What's the Big Deal? Experts Unpack the Coronavirus Outbreak
Listen to the news and you may fear a plague or a zombie outbreak. A cruise ship off Japan’s coast has been quarantined with nearly 3,700 passengers. Its American passengers were just evacuated, including 14 infected with the virus. In Wuhan, China,...
Accelerated viral dynamics in bat cell lines, with implications for zoonotic emergence
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New paper out today in @eLife uses within-host models & cell culture experiments to show how unique #bat immunity drives rapid #virus replication likely to be virulent upon emergence in non-bat hosts! elifesciences.org/articles/48401 @BootsLab @Andy2Dobson @ChandranLab @MarcelAMller
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