Looking forward to two days of thr latest on influenza!

Very excited to chat about bats, bugs, and biosurveillance for this CREATE-NEO webinar in just two short weeks! 🦇🧬🔍🦟

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Anyone (in Australia) want to work with us on super fun high risk projects? Our team is totally friendly and supportive and we love to help each other do the best science we can do. Please apply if you are interested.

linkedin.com/jobs/view/3747…

seek.com.au/job/71179469

Nice Impact Case Study from NHMRC about Arbovirus research qimrberghofer from 1952-1992. A proud legacy from Professors Doherty, Westaway, Kay, Aaskov and Standfast. Important Arbovirus research is continuing at QIMR to continue building in this legacy!
nhmrc.gov.au/about-us/resou…

Our second honours student from ⁦Alex Khromykh⁩ lab with ⁦Dr Andrii Slonchak⁩ is Rebecca Breeze presenting the pains and successes of generating sfRNA deficient mutants in insect specific flaviviruses.

🚨📚CMV in Solid Organ Transplantation: Camille Nelson Kotton and I go through the major updates since publication of the last international consensus guidelines in Transplantation 🫁🫀🫘

journals.lww.com/transplantjour…

At #AIMS2023 in Melbourne, leading mRNA experts gathered. We connected with Australia's vibrant mRNA community and congrats to BASE 's Deputy Director, Seth Cheetham , for an enlightening talk on 'Drugging the 'Undruggable' - Targeting Intracellular Proteins in Liver Cancer'.

Final seminar series today for the SCMB honours students from the ⁦Alex Khromykh⁩ lab. Very proud of the work from Justin Chan throughout the year with the large plasmid guru ⁦Yousef Alhammad⁩ carrying the supervisory team.

Our work on a new human polyomavirus is now published 👇👇👇

Identification of a new polyomavirus in distinct human populations and tissues onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

Are you working on weird influenza viruses? Here is the meeting for you! isirv.org/site/index.php…

I recently wondered: how well would Oxford Nanopore reads assemble in a short-read assembler? I.e. can ONT reads pass as Illumina reads in a de Bruijn graph assembly algorithm? Here are the results!
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I am excited to share the latest work from my PhD that has been published in JAMA Psychiatry! 🧬Is the observational relationship between lower birthweight and neurodevelopmental difficulties correlational or causal? jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap… (1/5)

Join us for Dr. Fagre's Anna Fagre (@[email protected]) webinar 'Of Bats and Bugs: An integrated approach to biosurveillance of vector-borne pathogens'. Register:zoom.us/webinar/regist… NIAID-CREID ASTMH ACAV Sociedade Brasileira de Virologia Institute for Human Infections & Immunity (IHII) Barbara A. Han Mauricio Nogueira’s lab @Famerp UTMB Provost's Office CREATE-NEO

New pre-print from our team.

Comparison of diagnostic methods, including metagenomics, to better understand and diagnose pleural space infections.
Erin Price Shola Olagoke

medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

HPAI now confirmed in the Antarctic region. Devastating news.
bas.ac.uk/media-post/fir…

New preprint!

We describe a novel approach to investigating the 'dark genome' called database-integrated genome screening (DIGS).

We use DIGS to perform comprehensive mapping of endogenous viral elements in vertebrate genomes.

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

#Evolution #Genomics

Do not feed them or make eye contact.

Predicting 3D RNA structure from the nucleotide sequence using Euclidean neural networks dlvr.it/SxSyGZ

Results for Remote Mobile Teams in the NT electorate of Lingiari. Number columns are first % Yes, then % No and total votes. #auspol #referendum2023

It's National Mushroom Day! 𝐊𝐲𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐰-𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐬 studies Australia's native mushrooms, exploring their properties, diversity, & health benefits, fousing on lion's mane & other wood-rot mushrooms. She aims to understand our fungal biodiversity & find new molecules for treating diseases.