Projects – BlueDot Impact

Projects

Here are the top project submissions from students on the Pandemics Course.

Participants worked on these projects for 4 weeks, applying their learnings from the course to their next steps in Biosecurity. You can find out more about the Project Phase of the Pandemics Course here.

Featured Projects

Project BEACON: Using OSINT methods in BWC verification

Disinformation Security: Making LLMs Safer by Lying to Them

By Christopher Rodriguez

Pandemics (2024 Sept)

A Concept for a Rapidly Distributable Pathogen Diagnostic

By Peter Eugster

Sick of Getting Sick? This Innovation Could Fight Germs in Schools and Hospitals — And Help Prevent the Next Pandemic

By Rickard Vikstrom

Understanding the AMR Crisis: Implications for Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness

By Rebecca Zanini

Balancing Innovation and Biosecurity: Governing the Dual-Use Risks of AI in Synthetic Biology

By Joe

Blogpost on biosurveillance in the UK

By Elizabeth Holland

A Strategic Approach to Vaccine Development: Incentivizing Research for New Vaccine Technologies

By Lillian Scharnhorst

Privacy Concerns Related to Using Chatbots to Inform Consent for Participation in Human Challenge Trials

By Julian Guidote

TTX for Teachers

By Lucy Di-Nozzi

Vir-o-matic

By Heba Farookhi

Pandemic Data Sharing Educational tool

‘Healthy Campus’ Hubs Proposal

Improving Pandemic Preparedness: Enhancing the Adoption and Implementation of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions Through the Application of the Macro Environmental Analysis Framework to the Situational Facilitators and Inhibitors in the Protective Action Decision Model

By Russell Peterson

High Stakes and High Containment: Where Are Biosafety Labs Headed?

By Dirk Raubald

Detecting avian influenza spill-over to dairy cattle by bulk milk testing in Switzerland — What can we learn from the current outbreak in the US?

By Jahn Nitschke

Can Class II Biological Safety Cabinet designs be improved to reduce laboratory-associated infections?

By Gregor Riese

How network science could revolutionize pandemic vaccination strategies

By Valentin Hammoudi

Simulating metagenomic data for novel pathogen outbreak detection

By Marie Krátká

Cost-benefit analysis of air filters in UK schools

By George Altman

Behind the Biohazard Sign: Contextualizing Biosafety

Bioinformatics pipelines: The Smoke Detector in the Fight Against Pandemics

By Gabriela Paredes

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1) Vaccines: The Guardrail Against the Next Pandemic!

By Geofrey Jagero

DNA origami-based virus traps – an explainer of a broad-spectrum antiviral for non-biologists

By Raffael Luca Schumann

Pandemics (2024 May)

The Pandemic Resilience Education and Precise modeling for African Rural Environments (PREPARE) Study

By Beth Tippett Barr

The silent enemy that destroys your productivity and health: Indoor Air Quality

By David Alejandro Valdez Caballero

Critical Review of Modelling Strategies against Pandemics

By Jeremy Andreoletti

PPE explainer

Wastewater Epidemiology for Biosecurity – Demystified

By Genevieve Rogers

Time for Biosafety Level 5

By Easton Smith

Project BEACON: Using OSINT methods in BWC verification

Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) for pandemic pathogen diagnostics

By Julia Niggemeyer

How COVID-19 Vaccine Government Announcements Varied by Country (NZ and UK Edition)

By Demelza Robinson

Pandemics (2023 Oct)

Life of Leif: Career Planning Blog

By Erik Jentzen

Enhancing biosecurity with AI agents: defining research directions

By Michael Chen, Martin Holub & Cameron Tice

A beginner’s introduction to AI-driven biorisk

By Natalie Kiilu

Cambridge Biosecurity Hub

By Grace Braithwaite

Proposing an AI model for zoonotic spillover surveillance in SEA

By Dominique Aluquin

Disinformation Security: Making LLMs Safer by Lying to Them

By Christopher Rodriguez

Learning Nextflow using Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing Data

By Sebastian Kreisel, Lucas Florin & Jordan Lay

Two case studies in using export controls to prevent bioterrorism

By Christopher & Rachel

Database of Potential Technical Biosecurity PhD Advisors

By Evan DeTurk, Christian Pearson & Benedikt Thelen

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