PopCorn Story - I was born in Wuhan, China, but
I now live in Canada. I learnt about most of what was happening through reading
the news, like everyone else. It really hit me that these are real, normal,
innocent folks that are dying when my grandmother started crying as she told me
her acquaintance had died after getting COVID-19, within ten days of the
primary symptoms showing. there have been not enough hospital beds, and her son
wasn’t ready to get her admitted in time.
The outbreak might have played a role why i
changed my career trajectory. i'm currently doing field working in the Bahamas
and am trying to answer fundamental questions in ecology and evolution. But one
chapter of my PhD thesis involves developing a technique to spot endangered
animals in steeped alcohol — like tiger-bone wine — a kind of traditional
Chinese medicine. i'm now hoping to expand the scope to include viral
metagenomics to seem for associations between host animals and viruses in
illegally trafficked wildlife products; research has suggested that the new
coronavirus could have emerged from a wild animal. i've got become inquisitive
about human-health aspects of wildlife conservation, and that i hope to
contribute to the current field in my postdoc position by using the
molecular-ecology methods i've got been trained in to assist to stop future
catastrophes associated with illegal wildlife trafficking. Charles C. Y. Xu,
McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Started my lab in China some months ago, but i
used to be abroad when the quantity of transmissions surged. The university
recommended that I avoid going back until further notice. My students are
isolated reception and are unable to start out their projects - despite the
lab’s target amphibians and also the undeniable fact that their breeding season
will boom over the subsequent few weeks. Amaël Borzée, Nanjing Forestry
University, China.
