Scaling US pathogen detection
September 23, 2025 • Simon Grimm, Lennart Justen & Jeff Kaufman
Blog posts
NAO research insights, updates, and more
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Benchmarking three ONT-based workflows for untargeted sequencing of RNA viruses in wastewater
September 15, 2025 • Vanessa Smilansky & Katherine Stansifer
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The NAO is Hiring for Partnerships, Response, Virology, and Wet Lab Management
August 25, 2025 • Jeff Kaufman
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Evaluating Outward Assembly on a Surprising Junction
July 24, 2025 • Evan Fields
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NAO Updates, July 2025
July 9, 2025 • NAO Team
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Estimating the sensitivity of wastewater metagenomic sequencing using nasal swabs
June 8, 2025 • Simon Grimm, Dan Rice, Mike McLaren
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Pooled Lab Discards for Pathogen Detection
May 14, 2025 • Jeff Kaufman & Lennart Justen
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Outward Assembly
April 16, 2025 • Evan Fields
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NAO Updates, April 2025
April 15, 2025 • NAO Team
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An Update on Our Air Sampling Research
April 3, 2025 • Lennart Justen, Simon Grimm, Will Bradshaw
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Scaling Our Pilot Early-Warning System
April 2, 2025 • Jeff Kaufman
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Exploring Blood-Based Biosurveillance, Part 3: The Blood Virome
February 7, 2025 • Harmon Bhasin, Michael McLaren & Lennart Justen
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NAO Updates, January 2025
January 9, 2025 • NAO Team
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Fund the Nucleic Acid Observatory to Detect Stealth Pandemics
November 18, 2024 • Jeff Kaufman, Mike McLaren & Will Bradshaw
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Testing Genetic Engineering Detection with Spike-Ins
October 22, 2024 • Jeff Kaufman
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NAO Updates, Fall 2024
October 17, 2024 • NAO Team
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Predicting Influenza Abundance in Wastewater Metagenomic Sequencing Data
September 23, 2024 • Jeff Kaufman
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Exploring Blood-Based Biosurveillance, Part 2: Sampling Strategies within the US Blood Supply
September 10, 2024 • Harmon Bhasin & Lennart Justen
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Exploring Blood-Based Biosurveillance, Part 1: Blood as a Sample Type
July 16, 2024 • Harmon Bhasin & Lennart Justen
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Investigating the sensitivity of pooled swab sampling for pathogen early detection
Sequencing swabs in non-hospital settings could offer reliable pathogen-agnostic early detection
July 1, 2024 • Simon Grimm & Will Bradshaw
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Detecting Genetically Engineered Viruses With Metagenomic Sequencing
A chimera detection approach
June 27, 2024 • Jeff Kaufman
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NAO Updates, Spring 2024
What we’ve been working on and our plans for the next quarter
May 20, 2024 • Jeff Kaufman, Olivia Hershey, Mike McLaren & Will Bradshaw
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New NAO Preprint: Indoor Air Sampling for Detection of Viral Nucleic Acids
A new review article examines the feasibility of surveilling indoor air for novel viral pathogens
May 13, 2024 • Lennart Justen, Simon Grimm & Will Bradshaw
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Simulating Approaches to Metagenomic Pandemic Identification
A tool to model the cost and sensitivity of different sampling approaches
April 3, 2024 • Jeff Kaufman & Dan Rice