Great job by #PerkinsLabND postdoc Alex Meyer rocking the house at #SMB2024 w his work using models to explain variability in CHIKV outbreaks! KSMB-SMB2024 SMB - Society for Mathematical Biology Notre Dame Science

Kudos to ##PerkinsLabND/ Rohr Ecology Lab PhD candidate Carly Barbera for a sharp poster at #EEID2024 last week! There was a lot of interest in her poster showing the complicated (but decipherable) relationship btwn temperature seasonality and epidemic size.

Day 5 of #SMB2024 has to be the best by far... and yes, we did have Gangnam style at the conference dinner! SMB - Society for Mathematical Biology KSMB-SMB2024 #phd #mathematicalbiology rocks!

This is what airborne Covid looks like. That freindly chat with with 2 people unmasked. Soemthign to think about as you ignore Covid.

Overhauling pandemic plans and increasing pandemic response capacity is urgent. It is a mistake to think of it as a long-term aspiration against a theoretical risk. The risk posed by H5N1 influenza, uncertain as it is, is certainly higher than it has been for a long time.

New in Science Translational Medicine : A prM mutation that attenuates dengue virus replication in human cells enhances midgut infection in mosquitoes A thread: 1/5 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Data like this badly needed, but there are important caveats. 1) "Nearly 15%" was 2/14. 95% uncertainty = 4-40%. 2) Unclear what specificity of test is, so could easily be false + only. 3) 29% of tested had recent resp symptoms. Likely not representative, biased high bc of this.

Last day of #EndDengue with Alex Perkins

I love featuring scientist profiles in my intro bio class to provide students with a diverse set of role models. It's amazing how impactful this can be for some students. I'm so happy to see this new profile about Notre Dame Biology alum and brilliant former colleague Geoffrey Siwo!

The College of Science at University of Notre Dame is seeking exceptional early-career scientists who are passionate about undergraduate education to join our prestigious postdoctoral fellowship program in Neuroscience and Behavior (NSBH). #PostdocJobs bit.ly/3M2FhJk

Credit to U.S. FDA for moving up the timeline for #COVID19 vax updates. Yet the map below shows why this was still a policy failure. An update that comes AFTER this much spread, can’t be considered a success. We have to acknowledge Covid isn’t behaving like the flu.🤷🏽‍♂️

So proud of #PerkinsLabND Notre Dame Biology Notre Dame Science ND Eck Institute for Global Health alum Quirine ten Bosch for her well-deserved promotion to Professor and Chair of the Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group at Wageningen! There's so much important work to do in this area and she's very well placed to lead it.

We’d like to announce that while we are not a hotel, we are a concept of a hotel.

Over 270K dengue cases were reported to Africa CDC in 2023. Our new Nature Communications paper shows that past dengue lineages were introduced into Africa by multiple recent importations, mainly from Asia/East Asia. Targeting networks of spread may help prevent future outbreaks! #Dengue

It's been fun hosting Alex Meyer Natalie E. Dean, PhD and other collaborators on a chikungunya modeling project here at Notre Dame Science Notre Dame Biology the last couple of days. They're forecasting touchdowns for this weekend!

Doing a PhD and a Post doc teaches you many things, but it doesn't prepare you for biggest challenge professors meet - signing documents with acrobat reader

"The increasing role of philanthropy and private cooperations in research funding poses great risks. They might pull their support any time and stop programs people count on." NIH NIAID Funding : Hold my beer 🍺 Can't believe VEuPathDB is gone 😭 plasmodb.org