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Jared Auclair
Director of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Associate Teaching Professor, Director of Biopharmaceutical Analysis Training Laboratory
617.373.7578
Expertise
analytical chemistry, bioinfomatics, biological mass spectrometry, biotechnology, Chemical Biology, chemistry, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccines, monkeypox, protein biochemistry, protein crystallography, Vaccine Development, Vaccines, variant sequencing, Variants

Jared Auclair in the Press

Jared Auclair for Northeastern Global News

Jeffrey Agar's hand in a purple glove holding a piece of lab equipment.

Breakthrough ALS research: Free tool from Northeastern scientists could revolutionize drug development

Jeffrey Agar and a team of scientists came up with a technique that improves the drug discovery workflow for large class of pharmaceuticals.
A black lab container with a series of slots and a pipette filling the slots with a test liquid.

What is ‘gain of function’? Why scientists are divided about the risk and benefits of experimenting with deadly viruses

Donald Trump is reportedly the latest president to consider a halt to research that enhances dangerousness of possible pandemic pathogens.
Alessandro Vespignani sitting at a desk looking at a laptop.

Northeastern receives $17.5 million from CDC to launch infectious disease prediction center

“Alessandro Vespignani will head the center that will prepare the U.S. for future epidemics, especially in rural areas. With COVID-19, “everybody was caught off guard,” he says. “We don’t want to be in a situation like that in the future.”

Here’s how Northeastern will test students who show symptoms of COVID-19

In order to promote the safety of the Northeastern community, the university has created a separate testing facility on Huntington Avenue for students who exhibit symptoms of the illness. The Huntington Testing Center is where all symptomatic students—including those on co-op—will be tested, upon referral by a medical professional.

What it’s like to run a lab that churns out thousands of coronavirus test results per day

Thousands of coronavirus swabs from Northeastern’s Boston campus end up in the Life Sciences Testing Center. Jared Auclair, an associate teaching professor of biotechnology, is at the helm. “All of my efforts are turned towards maintaining quality while scaling up our effort,” he says. “If we’re not going to produce quality results, there’s no point.”