Exciting news🤩- we have an opening for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Infection Biology & Immunology in our Institute EPFL Life Sciences EPFL Please spread the word & encourage outstanding postdocs, who are ready to start their own labs, to apply. THX 🤓 shorturl.at/bSvVe

We are looking to fill a postdoctoral fellow position. We have exciting projects in the lab focused on studying immunity to emerging viruses. Recent graduates with a background in virology or immunology should send me an email or DM me if interested.

Recently, I spoke with David Virshup about his time in Singapore and why the collaboration with our partner medical school Duke-NUS Medical School is so important. Watch our full discussion on YouTube: duke.is/FridayMessage

This is absolutely essential for scientific progress. Thinking can not be done in busy environments at work. Quieter, solitary environments do wonders.

I'm excited to share that I'll be launching a new lab in 2025 at NIH/NIAID, focusing on mucosal immunology and respiratory viruses! We're currently seeking a postdoc 😊 Apply here: training.nih.gov/jobs/pdirta-12… Join us in the heart of the Rocky Mountains! 🏔️

This is amazing news. FDA Approves First Nasal Spray for Treatment of Anaphylaxis I am sure this will improve the quality of life of all patients who carried an adrenaline auto injector. fda.gov/news-events/pr…

The emergence of a new clade of #mpox, its rapid spread in eastern #DRC, and the reporting of cases in several neighbouring countries are very worrying. On top of outbreaks of other mpox clades in DRC and other countries in Africa, it’s clear that a coordinated international

To media folks everywhere, here is a partial list of African experts you can reach out to re the Mpox public health emergency in Africa: Jean Kaseya Christian T. Happi Tulio de Oliveira Shabir Madhi Marc Mendelson Ifedayo Adetifa Nadia Adjoa Sam-Agudu, MD, CTropMed BK Titanji Dr. Ayoade Alakija Dr Matshidiso Moeti

🚨 World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the #mpox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. To support public health labs, the @PHA4GE PipeViz WG created a living document on key challenges & open-source tools for #mpox analysis. #genomics #publichealth pha4ge.org/resource/bioin…

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine seeks to appoint up to 2 posts as Professor or Associate Professor, with special interest in medical entomology, transmission, surveillance and/or control of vector-borne diseases myhealthtalent.com/job/8052618/pr…

MPOX update: Our Oxford Nanopore sequencing protocol/primers for #MPOX clade IIB also work for clade IB. As this is confirmed by work performed in DRC using these primer sets by Udahemuka Jean Claude, PhD 🇷🇼👨🏿‍🔬🧬 Bas Oude Munnink Marion Koopmans, publications: https://pure.eur.nl Publication Eurosurveillance: eurosurveillance.org/content/10.280… 1/2

Out now: #DukeNUSMEDICUS spoke with #DukeNUS scientists who are studying #viruses about their ability to adapt to new hosts, such as food sources and #animals: duke-nus.edu.sg/medicus/2024-i… 📸: Norfaezah Abdullah, Duke-NUS #pandemic #influenza

Expanding mpox testing and sequencing should be prioritized and accelerated. We are leveraging and building on #AfriacPGI partnerships, national and regional capacities, collaborations, systems, and networks. #AfricaCDC Gates Foundation Illumina EU HERA Pathogen Genomic Lab - INRB

🆕World Health Organization (WHO) Dashboard showing key figures for #Mpox globally and for the African Region Surveillance, testing, sequencing, reporting & field investigations are critical for better understanding of the dynamics of the outbreaks & to guide response efforts👇 worldhealthorg.shinyapps.io/mpx_global/

Teaching stats and R using our textbook for complete beginners, Data Analysis for Social Science (bit.ly/dss_book)? #rstats Here are some instructor RESOURCES for you:

Published today: WHO #smallpox and #mpox vaccine position paper. Publié aujourd’hui: Position de l’OMS sur les vaccins antivarioliques. iris.who.int/bitstream/hand… The product of months of work by the World Health Organization (WHO) Vaccines and Emergency Departments with the support of many global experts.

I wrote with Adam Kucharski a review of statistical inference methods to address key epidemiological questions during epidemics doi.org/10.1016/j.epid…. A mix of theory, intuitive explanation, and 21 case studies. Hopefully a useful resource for students and others!

To be a good geospatial data scientist, you need to master the basics. Here are my recommended resources for levelling up in geospatial data science:

The WHO chief said on Friday that Mpox vaccines were set to arrive in the DRC 🇨🇩 in the next few days, according to Reuters. Some 230,000 Mpox doses are immediately available to be dispatched. These doses were donated by the European Commission and Bavarian Nordic.

Join us for Asia PGI's 3rd webinar. Anita Suresh will be presenting on the use of NGS in TB diagnostics with Anita Suresh FIND Those interested do join :-) #NGS #AsiaPGI #pathogengenomics