Logan Banadyga, University of Manitoba

Research

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Latest papers

Characterization of Atypical Ebola Virus Disease in Ferrets.
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026 · senior author
Characterization of atypical Ebola virus disease in ferrets.
PLoS pathogens · 2026 · senior author
Development of an immunochromatographic lateral flow assay for the rapid detection of all known orthoebolavirus glycoproteins.
Npj viruses · 2026 · senior author

All 26 publications

Latest funding

AAV-vectored immunoprophylaxis for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
$761,176

All 1 grants and awards

26 publications.

01

Characterization of Atypical Ebola Virus Disease in Ferrets.

Cao W, He S, Schulz H, Wight J, Chan M, Emeterio K, Liu G, Audet J, Tierney K, Azaransky K, Frost K, Gee L, McQueen P, Chong P, Booth S, Westmacott G, Saphire EO, Zeng X, Banadyga L

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2026Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.64898/2026.01.20.700506 PMID: 41648181

02

Characterization of atypical Ebola virus disease in ferrets.

Cao W, He S, Schulz H, Wight J, Chan M, Emeterio K, Liu G, Audet J, Tierney K, Azaransky K, Frost K, Gee L, McQueen P, Chong P, Sulkosky SB, Booth S, Westmacott G, Saphire EO, Zeng X, Banadyga L

PLoS pathogens2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1013916 PMID: 42081574

03

Development of an immunochromatographic lateral flow assay for the rapid detection of all known orthoebolavirus glycoproteins.

Schulz H, Liu G, Wight J, Emeterio K, Cao W, Chan M, Yang M, Banadyga L

Npj viruses2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1038/s44298-026-00209-1 PMID: 42342843

04

Multilevel Residual Complexity Analysis Reveals Origin of Nanomolar Antiviral Bioactives of "Isoquercitrin".

Rebollar-Ramos D, Roy AV, Friesen JB, Harris G, Chen SN, Chan M, He S, Liu G, Zhu W, Banadyga L, McAlpine JB, Chrétien M, Mbikay M, Pauli GF

Journal of natural products2026

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.6c00077 PMID: 41960792

05

Development of a Point-of-Care Immunochromatographic Lateral Flow Strip Assay for the Detection of Nipah and Hendra Viruses.

Jia J, Zhu W, Liu G, Diederich S, Pickering B, Banadyga L, Yang M

Viruses20255 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.3390/v17071021 PMID: 40733637

06

Rodent adapted marburg viruses are lethal in ferrets

Zachary Schiffman, Lauren Garnett, Kaylie N. Tran, Jonathan Audet, Kevin James Tierney, Kim Azaransky, Shihua He, Logan Banadyga, James E. Strong

npj Viruses20252 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1038/s44298-025-00147-4 PMID: 40921747

07

Deep sequencing of serially passaged Sudan virus in guinea pigs uncovers adaptive mutations.

Emeterio K, Audet J, Zhu W, Leung A, Schulz H, He S, Drebot M, Banadyga L

Heliyon2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2025.e42322 PMID: 39968149

08

Single-dose replicon RNA Sudan virus vaccine uniformly protects female guinea pigs from disease.

O'Donnell KL, Anhalt H, Saturday G, Warner NL, Hinkley T, Stone ET, Hatzakis K, Khandhar AP, Banadyga L, Erasmus JH, Marzi A

Nature communications2025

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-59560-1 PMID: 40328820

09

Monoclonal Antibody Production Against Filoviruses from Immunized Mice.

Liu G, Banadyga L

Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-4256-6_8 PMID: 39585617

10

Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Using Henipavirus-Receptor EphrinB2 and Monoclonal Antibodies for Detecting Nipah and Hendra Viruses.

Zhu W, Smith G, Pickering B, Banadyga L, Yang M

Viruses20246 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.3390/v16050794 PMID: 38793674

AAV-vectored immunoprophylaxis for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases

Co-investigatorCIHR2023Project Grant

Principal investigators: Wootton, Sarah

Keywords: Adeno-Associated Virus (Aav); Alternative Vaccine Platform; Anti-Drug Antibodies; Emerging Infectious Diseases; Immune Response To Aav; Immunoprophylaxis; Large Animal Models; Monoclonal Antibody; Recrudescence; Who Priority Pathogens

$761,176

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

Frequent collaborators

Department of Pathobiology
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Xiangguo Qiu

Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research

8 shared papers, latest 2023

James Strong

Faculty

4 shared papers, latest 2025

David Safronetz

Faculty

3 shared papers, latest 2023

Brad Pickering

Faculty

3 shared papers, latest 2025

Md Rahim

Faculty

3 shared papers, latest 2023

Bradley Pickering

Faculty

3 shared papers, latest 2025

Stephanie Booth

Faculty

2 shared papers, latest 2026

Darwyn Kobasa

Faculty

2 shared papers, latest 2023

Gary Wong

Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

2 shared papers, latest 2018

Shawn Babiuk

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2023

Bryce Warner

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2022

Sarah Wootton

Department of Pathobiology

1 shared papers, latest 2023

Michael Drebot

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2025

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