Professor of Viral Ecology & Wellcome Senior Research Fellow | disease ecology | vampire bat rabies | transmissible vaccines | AI | hills & lochs | science-dad
Glasgow, Scotland
Joined December 2014
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Exploring the role of vampire bats in H5N1 transmission through ecology and virology. Big team effort on this one! 🦇🩸🧬🔬🧫 @UofGSBOHVM @CVRinfo
science.org/content/article/…
pre-print here->doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.09.6…
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Fascinating story about evidence that #H5N1 #birdflu infected vampire bats in South America, raising the prospect of a potential new & dangerous host for the virus. Some good news: The virus didn't appear to spread well among the bats. By @martinenserink. science.org/content/article/…
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🦇 Understanding bat flu and the risks it carries
@Megan3Griffiths, @DanielStreicker & colleagues reveal how flu spreads in vampire bats, highlighting potential risks for cross-species transmission and future outbreaks.
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CLOSING SOON: Postdoc (Hatfield / London, United Kingdom)
Link viral metagenomic data with epidemiological models, helping to uncover key drivers of virus transmission
with @jnaraghwani @HassellJm @cl_faust @bahanbug @DanielStreicker...
More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/postdoctora…
We're recruiting a lab technican to carry out virus pseudotype assays, PCRs and epigenetic ageing of bats to support a #wellcome funded project on bat rabies. Apply by 12 Feb! jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research-… @CVRinfo @UofGSBOHVM @BatsGoViral
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We are recruiting two 2-year postdocs to work at the @RoyalVetCollege and with gapdc.org/ on genomic surveillance of viruses. jobs.rvc.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Please share widely! #postdocposition #Postdocs
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🔍🦠🦗 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲!
Work with me, @MartaShocket, and @maxjfarrell building information systems and large language models to capture key biological host-pathogen relations from literature - that could control crop pests or conserve biodiversity! 1/2
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🔊‼️ Abstract submission for BritBats 2025 has been EXTENDED until 14th November 2024. ‼️🔊
🦇If you are a student or postdoc researching bats, we can't wait to hear from you!🦇britbats.com/abstract-submis…
@Co_Biologists @vincentwildlife @SussexUni @EcotypeGenetics
BritBats 2025 abstract submission deadline has been extended to ✨14th November✨
Students/ECRs working on bat research 🦇 anywhere in the world 🌍are invited to present an in-person poster or talk
Don't forget to check out our grant and discounts!
britbats.com/
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💰 We are very proud to receive funding from @UKRI_News as part of its work to tackle infections.
The "One Health Computational Network" will focus on predicting, detecting, and preventing viral diseases that threaten humans, animals and plants.
More: gla.ac.uk/research/az/cvr/en…
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I am so excited to share the cover of my forthcoming @PrincetonUPress book on how animals use medicine and what we can learn from them! The book will come out on 4 March 2025, and can be pre-ordered here: hubs.ly/Q02SZyF-0
Deadline to apply extended until September 5th. Apply or get in touch!
New PhD on bat virus epidemiology in Belize and Kenya with @MafaldaSViana, Laura Bergner and me @UofGSBOHVM. Part of a larger NIH project with @DiseaseEcol @danjbecker & @lunn_tamika. Bats+models+metagenomics+field experiment! Apply now, closing 1 Sept '24 findaphd.com/phds/project/fu…
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New PhD on bat virus epidemiology in Belize and Kenya with @MafaldaSViana, Laura Bergner and me @UofGSBOHVM. Part of a larger NIH project with @DiseaseEcol @danjbecker & @lunn_tamika. Bats+models+metagenomics+field experiment! Apply now, closing 1 Sept '24 findaphd.com/phds/project/fu…
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🚨 postdoc ad 🚨 very excited that our group is looking for a postdoc in animal detection from sat imagery!!! come help us understand patterns of animal aggregations and disease in natural systems! please rt and reach out if you have any q’s!!! apply.interfolio.com/152611
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Come and work with my amazing team at @NHM_Science (London, UK) examining zoonotic diseases in a onehealth context. 2 & 3 yr post-doc positions with a stats modelling and meta-genomics focus respectively: jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail… jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail…
Closing: 8th Sept 2024
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Exciting post doc with the @LambertonLab on population genetics of Onchocerca, inc. sibship analyses & within host spatial distributions @LisaR_C, @fishyomics, @Barrett_Lab & @ JamesCotton (with potential 2 more years on a schistosomiasis project).
jobs.ac.uk/job/DJC635/resear…
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Job Alert! Research Fellow in One Health @OfficialZSL @ZSLScience working with Prof Andrew Cunningham - collaborating with @NHM @David_W_Redding and @UCLCBER People & Nature Lab
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Please RT‼️I'm recruiting a PhD student for a fully funded 4 year position to study how ongoing biodiversity change alters disease risk in plant communities in the Åland archipelago meadow ecosystem. DL 28 Aug
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsink…
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My lab is recruiting a PhD student to start 2025/2026! If you're interested in the evolution and ecology of host-parasite interactions, check us out here: coevolving.org/
New PhD on bat virus epidemiology in Belize and Kenya with @MafaldaSViana, Laura Bergner and me @UofGSBOHVM. Part of a larger NIH project with @DiseaseEcol @danjbecker & @lunn_tamika. Bats+models+metagenomics+field experiment! Apply now, closing 1 Sept '24 findaphd.com/phds/project/fu…
My Fleming Prize lecture from @MicrobioSoc 2024 is now online: "Stopping spillover: from understanding risk to control at the source." Thanks to to the society for the prize and to @BatsGoViral for the hard work! 🦇🧬📈
youtube.com/watch?v=ZuU4wTyA…