NIH grant to UC Riverside physicist focuses on how pathogens evolve

(University of California - Riverside) For several years, physicist John Barton at UC Riverside, has been working on developing models to understand and predict how pathogens, such as HIV, evolve. This research pursuit has just received support from the National Institutes of Health. Barton, an assistant professor, has been awarded a Maximizing Investigators' Research Award for early-stage investigators, allowing his lab to work on developing methods to understand how different mutations affect ...