Thanks to Ben Longdon: posting @[email protected] and all the lovely folks from University of Exeter and beyond for a day of excellent talks and great chats around the ecology and evolution of disease emergence yesterday! Had lots of fun talking about how (not) to model viral reservoirs. Looking forward to day two!

Guaranteed to be an excellent talk!

It's finally out! an exciting paper almost 4 years in the making: BTN3A3 evasion promotes the zoonotic potential of influenza A viruses in nature Here's a 🧵 about how 🐓 influenza A viruses cross the species barrier nature.com/articles/s4158…

Thought I might tweet about this, but ⬇️ says all of what I would probably have said and more. Having your privilege challenged 👏 is 👏 not 👏 discrimination 👏 against you… incendiary statements from people in positions of power won’t solve our problems, open discussion will!

Excellent talk erin… I can only apologise for the horribly goofy selfie 😅

MSA diversity is key for #AlphaFold2's accuracy. Larger databases == better results. So, we generated MSAs from 22 peta-bytes of SRA data and show that ColabFold could have improved from rank 11 to 3 at CASP15. ⅕ 📄 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 💾 doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…

We're delighted to share our latest publication in which we use #AlphaFold2 to explore membrane fusion in hepatitis C virus and its relatives. Our work suggests these viruses may possess a previously unknown fusion mechanism. This may prove important for vaccine development.

If you want to follow this event as it unfolds over the next few days, we will be posting on our Instagram - be prepared it may get a bit gory! instagram.com/p/Cuw7unSsEHd/…

📄 NEW PAPER | Predicting zoonotic potential of viruses: where are we? Nardus Mollentze & Daniel Streicker review current progress in models for predicting zoonotic risk of viruses and how #AI & lab assays are essential for making future predictions. 👉 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

VACANCY | Research #Technician Ref 122988 Contribute to a core-funded research programme focused on Virus Cross Species Transmission, working with Daniel Streicker and Pablo Murcia. 📆 Deadline: 11 Aug Info 👉 bit.ly/CVR-WorkWithUs… Apply 👉 gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/?…

TIL: this hella creepy looking black iris phenotype (which I first saw at St Abb's Head) today is likely a marker of previous HPAI infection in Northern Gannets (Morus bassanus). Intriguing and as yet poorly understood finding from Jude Lane doi.org/10.1101/2023.0…

Super pleased to finally have my first PhD chapter out on bioRxiv! We had a look at what funky incubation periods could do to genetic divergence RabidBites biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

First confirmed cases of HPAI in the Antarctic region bas.ac.uk/media-post/fir…

First diagnosis of #bluetongue virus serotype 3 in the U.K. It was detected in a cow on a premises near Canterbury, Kent, #England. No information whether it is the same variant that is causing a big epidemic in the #Netherlands. #blauwtong 1/2 gov.uk/guidance/bluet…

New PhD on bat virus epidemiology in Belize and Kenya with Mafalda Viana, Laura Bergner and me UofG SBOHVM. Part of a larger NIH project with Kristian Forbes Daniel Becker & Dr. Tamika Lunn. Bats+models+metagenomics+field experiment! Apply now, closing 1 Sept '24 findaphd.com/phds/project/f…