Great opportunity for folks interested in starting their own group (or moving an existing group) working in the areas of livestock viruses or immunology, zoonotic diseases, vaccinology, or insect vector biology! Come work with us!

Michael Marks Tommy Rampling ECDC Outbreaks Trainee Association of ESCMID Emma Thomson WNV is spreading North and West, appearing in Spain, France and Germany

#ECCMID2024 Its getting warmer & that is allowing introduced West Nile to maintain in Europe. Most cases are asymptomatic but neuro-invasion can occur. Humans (& horses) are dead-end hosts as humans dont experience sufficient viraemia to allow ongoing transmission.

Measles Outbreak Update: Dr.josephine bwogi, the Principal Research Officer heading the EPI Department at UVRI recommended the need for including evidence-based research to guide public health interventions in response to the outbreak.

#VaccinesWork #WorldImmunisationWeek

Eligible people, including those who require long-term treatment for immunosuppression, can now book their spring #COVID19 vaccine online or via the #NHSapp 📱

Find out more and book at: nhs.uk/conditions/cov…

3 more dairy herds have been confirmed to have cows infected with #H5N1 #birdflu . Texas, Kansas & Michigan each notched up one more infected herd. National total is now 32.
Seems to be a 2-3 day lag between lab confirmation & posting by Dept. of Agriculture.
aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poul…

Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) virus in a common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) in Florida nature.com/articles/s4200…

Congratulations to Jack Crook on passing his DPhil viva today!

We were delighted to host Emma Thomson MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research today who gave us a fantastic talk on her work on emerging viruses in Uganda!

📢 EVENT | #GlasgowVirologyWorkshop

Come along for a day of interesting talks & discussions.

Speakers: Clive McKimmie (VHIT) 🦟🦠🐁, Faye Watson, Lucy Thorne, Aris Katzourakis & Anastasia Komarova

📅 4 June 2024
📍 Sir Charles Wilson Building

Info & register: gla.ac.uk/research/az/cv…

Mayaro virus found in 3.4% of febrile patients in Roraima, Brazil (2018-2021)! In our study at EID journal we detected, sequenced, and isolated the Mayaro virus & confirmed genotype D.

Led by Júlia Forato and LEVE - UNICAMP team. 🦟🦠🇧🇷

Read: wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/30…

New mpox clade 1 lineage identified in DR Congo outbreak. Why near simultaneous growth of clade 1(a) transmission and emergence of clade 2b and this new clade 1(b)? Can loss of population immunity from smallpox vaccination programme fully explain this? cidrap.umn.edu/mpox/new-mpox-…

Our #GlobalAdvancedFellowship is open for applications. This £750,000 award will fund:
1️⃣ A research project
2️⃣ Training and development
3️⃣ Institutional capacity strengthening
The award is for post-doctoral researchers at all levels.
Apply: nihr.ac.uk/funding/nihr-g…

📢REMINDER | #GlasgowVirologyWorkshop

Deadline for abstract submission for a talk is TODAY!

We encourage submissions from delegates at postgrad & postdoc career stages.

Send a PDF with your name, email & affiliation plus ~200 word abstract to [email protected].

🚨 #genome sequences from the #Mpox outbreak in Kamitunga, DRC 🇨🇩 suggest a new emerging lineage of Clade I
Data suggests recent emergence and sustained human-human transmission. Should the world be worried ?
A short 🧵on the topic

Bioinformatic system administrator position open University of Glasgow to work with CVR Bioinformatics tinyurl.com/cvrbioinfsysad… Come join us!

#Didyouknow that Rabindranath Tagore was a dedicated painter?

Even though he began painting in his sixties, he managed to produce thousands of works. His individual painting style with simple bold forms has inspired many modern Indian artists.

#WorldArtDay

HCV-Flavi 2024 I am delighted to be organising the 30th International Symposium on Hepatitis C Virus, Flaviviruses, and Related Viruses in September in University of Oxford this year.
Do sign up - it is going to be AMAZING!!!

🚨 Cool Job Alert 🚨

We are looking for a registrar to come work Mater Hospital Trauma⁩ National Isolation Unit as a clinical fellow in High Consequence Infectious Diseases.

See the job description for details and get in touch with questions! 👇🦠😷 rezoomo.com/job/64151/?HIG…