Erin R. Cafferty
Featured Projects
Studying host-pathogen
evolution in the Elde Lab
Could studying the past reveal long-forgotten immune strategies to combat today's pathogens?
Take a closer look at how immune invaders have shaped our evolutionary history with the latest video from the Elde lab, and explore what secrets might be hiding in our DNA.
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Using analogies and animations, I explained an advanced scientific topic in a video suitable for all ages!
Microbites:
Contributing Author
I write for MicroBites because I believe that science is for everyone!
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My goal is to share recent
research findings to a wide audience in an interesting and accessible way.
Along with writing, I create visuals to explain complex topics as another way to make science approachable and fun.
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Virology exhibit at
The Science Mill
I helped design a virology exhibit for The Science Mill, a children's museum in Johnson City, TX.
Inside a glove box are 3D printed Sars-CoV-2’s spike protein and human cell surface receptors. Visitors have to move the spike protein model around and match it to the correct host cell receptor for the virus to infect the cell.
If they touch the spike protein to the correct receptor, an animation of Sars-CoV-2 entering a cell will play on a screen above.
