Press
Research in the Goldberg Lab often receives coverage by the popular press. Below are some examples.
Televised lectures
- TEDx, Discovering Pathogens and the Pathways by which they Emerge
- Science Lives, Stalking Infectious Diseases in Wildllife
- Wednesday Nite at the Lab, Emerging Diseases in Wisconsin and Beyond
Selected press (various and sundry scary pathogens and disease-related topics.)
- Chimpanzees are being forced to eat bat feces, and the viruses in it (Quirks and Quarks, CBC radio interview)
- How Ugandan Tobacco Farming Inadvertently Threatens Spread of Bat-Borne Viruses (Scientific American)
- Forced to eat bat feces, chimps could spread deadly viruses to humans (Science)
- Is the coronavirus in your backyard? (New York Times)
- New viruses, including coronavirus, found in Wisconsin fish (Duluth News Tribune)
- From Chicago to Uganda, scientists track the wildlife diseases that could infect humans - or spark the next pandemic (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
- On the hunt for the next pandemic virus (Just Human Productions)
- Pathogen discovered that kills endangered chimps; is it a threat to humans? (Scientific American)
- A mysterious, lethal chimp disease is linked to a human illness (New York Times)
- What if COVID-19 takes hold in animals? (CGTN Europe)
- COVID infections in animals prompt scientific concern (New York Times)
- What is killing Wisconsin's bald eagles? (Audubon Magazine)
- For years, rubella was thought to have no viral relatives. Now, UW and German researchers have discovered two (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
- Live animal markets worldwide can spawn diseases, experts say (Voice of America)
- Nearly a third of U.S. bald eagles infected with newly discovered virus (US News & World Report)
- The smell will knock you off your feet: mass mussel die-offs baffle scientists (The Guardian)
- Mussel die-off (As it Happens, CBC Radio)
- Why freshwater mussels are dying (National Public Radio)
- A freshwater mussel apocalypse is underway—and no one knows why (National Georaphic)
- Scientists don’t know why freshwater mussels are dying across North America (Smithsonian)
- The hunt for a future killer (Milwaukee Jounrnal Sentinel)
- Chimpanzees dying of the common cold (New Scientist and other venues)
- Chimpanzees dying of human rhinovirus C (BBC World Service)
- The hunt for Ebola's wild reservoir (Nature)
- Making a better flip-flop to block helminth transmission (Associated Press and other venues)
- Deadly new virus in largemouth bass (Associated Press and other venues)
- Superspreaders: the 20% who spread the most disease (Wall Street Journal)
- Cataloging novel pathways of pathogen transmission (Nature Medicine)
- Mystery tapeworm kills beloved orangutan (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
- Vampire mosquitoes spread West Nile virus (WBEZ Chicago)
- Wash your hands! (Emerging Health Threats)
Notril tick (Tony discovers a new species of tick up his nose - an oldie but a goodie)
- The Guardian
- The Independent
- National Geographic
- Science
- Cracked.com
- Public Radio International
- BBC
- Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! (NPR) #1
- Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! (NPR) #2
- The Weather Channel
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- Houston Chronicle
And more!