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Bioinformatics, phylogenetics, open science, coding, bikes and cycling, ranting. I no longer post here - find me @bljog.bsky.social

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📢 After 14 years of successful leadership, Prof Massimo Palmarini has stepped down as CVR Director. Prof Emma Thomson, a leading expert in emerging infectious diseases, will act as Interim Director, continuing the CVR’s vital work in virus research. 🔗 gla.ac.uk/news/headline_1146…
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As a @WOAH Collaborating Centre, we’re excited to announce our 8th annual Viral #Bioinformatics & #Genomics training course, starting 16 June 2025! 🧬@CVRinfo. 📅 Register by 30 April: 👉 bit.ly/VBGCourse2025 📲 Or scan the QR code to join.
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“It is really hard for infectious diseases to effectively stop being specialists and move over into a new species. So, when that happens, it is striking and concerning”— Microbiology Society member, Ed Hutchinson, in the Guardian yesterday buff.ly/4hfxPrU
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santafe.edu/culture/podcasts… Great and fun podcast on intelligence!

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Our @NorthWestBio1 PhD project applying natural language processing to virology literature is now open for applications: gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/docto… Get in touch with if you are interested and want to find out more.
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Applications are now open: gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/docto…
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Preparing for Pandemics: How to Communicate? events.bookitbee.com/univers…

Preparing for Pandemics: How to Communicate?

The symposium, ‘Preparing for Pandemics: How to Communicate?’ considers how to manage effective communication in the event of the next viral pandemic.

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Countries neighboring Rwanda still need to know which are the 7 of the 30 districts in Rwanda that report Marburg. Although cases centered in Kigali among ICU staff, it still matters whether any cases reported near DRC, Burundi, Tanzania, or Uganda afro.who.int/countries/rwand…

Rwanda reports first-ever Marburg virus disease outbreak, with 26 cases confirmed | WHO | Regional...

Brazzaville/Kigali – Rwandan health authorities are intensifying outbreak control efforts following the detection of Marburg virus disease, with 26 cases confirmed and six deaths reported currently.

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Ajay Labade@ajaylabade3126 Sep 2024
Unveiling Expansion in situ genome sequencing: a revolutionary leap in spatial genomics! ExIGS enables simultaneous nanoscale mapping of gDNA and proteins in single cells. It's been an incredible journey co-leading this work with @z_chiang , @CarolineComenho , @JD_Buenrostro
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Wouldn't it be nice to have a beautiful street art on Sinclair drive to inspire the kids walking to @BattlefieldPS and the toddlers in @SinclairNursery
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Kieran Lamb@Kieran12Lamb10 Jul 2024
Our new preprint showing how protein language models (PLMs) can help us understand viral proteins is now available! We used ESM-2 to investigate what PLMs know about the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein from a single sequence to evolutionary trajectories. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

From a single sequence to evolutionary trajectories: protein language models capture the evolutio...

Protein language models (PLMs) capture features of protein three-dimensional structure from amino acid sequences alone, without requiring multiple sequence alignments (MSA). The concepts of grammar...

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Welcome speech from @CVRinfo director Prof. Palmarini for our 7th Annual Viral Bioinformatics course. We enjoyed BBQ🍖🔥
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Our viral #Bioinformatics course has come to an end! 🎉@CVRinfo This year we had 17 participants from Europe/Asia/Africa/Americas🌍.Thank you all! Also thanks to all instructors on the courses : @blJOg @SrikeerthanaK @DerekCVR @RichardJOrton @vbsreenu @QuanGuCVR @robertson_lab
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Jake Lever@jakelever05 Jun 2024
Last couple days to apply for our Research Assistant/Associate role working on NLP for cancer mutations. Come work with us @GlasgowCS! jobs.ac.uk/job/DHO579/resear…
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Today we celebrate the first #InternationalDayOfPotato! Recognising the importance of the crop in addressing environmental threats to #agrifood systems 🥔🌟 Our research has produced #potatoes more resilient to drought, disease and climate change. More: bit.ly/4bDNRcO
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SCMI@SCMICryoEM29 May 2024
A little under 1 week left to apply for these posts, so if working in a busy and growing #cryoem facility sounds like your thing, get in touch! The portal closes on 4th June, 23:45 UK time
SCMI@SCMICryoEM8 May 2024
We are on the hunt for 3 cryo-EM scientists to work across all aspects of the facility. If you're interested in working in a cryo-EM facility, helping users, delivering training and growing our facility, please check out our positions. Deadline: 4th June gla.ac.uk/research/az/cvr/fa…
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Come work with us 🦠🛜💻👇
Robertson@robertson_lab21 May 2024
Still time to apply for our HPC Sys admin post to support our bioinformatics & computational biology research @CVRbioinfo in @CVRinfo & @BiottofnI @UofGSii. Application deadline extended to 29th May, gla.ac.uk/research/az/cvr/ab… apply here gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/ -vacancy ref 144330
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Identification of a potential genotype 9 of HCV (but need more sequences!). This one from patient in Guyana academic.oup.com/jid/advance…

Identification of 2 Novel Subtypes of Hepatitis C Virus Genotype 8 and a Potential New Genotype...

Two new hepatitis C virus (HCV) subtypes belonging to genotype 8 and a potentially new genotype may be circulating in low- and middle-income countries. Mor

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Vertebrate genomes contain millions of DNA sequences derived from ancient viruses. In work published today in Genome Biology, we provide a panoramic overview of these endogenous viral elements. shorturl.at/eGLX7 #Evolution #Virology #Genomics
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Great to see this one published!! Describing one of my favourite genome screening tools (DIGS) and a wide diversity of new vertebrate endogenous viral elements! 🧬🧬genomebiology.biomedcentral.…
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