“MERMAIDS allowed us to study the relationships between human genes and respiratory pathogens.” During the 1st  #PREPAREwebinar  we explain how these genes contribute and why some patients develop more severe disease than others. Register here: prepare-webinars.eu
Peter Horby

Sometimes it's important to recognise how far we as a research community have come - and build upon these successes. Very happy to share our PLOS Pathogens review on outbreak research (in which all authors are PhD students from HONOURs-ITN).

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HONOURs-ITN Nature Medicine A Edridge I have the hope that our study will help to be prepared for what is ahead of us in the coming winter season. Fingers crossed

Parasites of our parasites! In our Nature Communications study, we identified three virus families using metagenomics, and pinpointed the hosts as human gut protozoa, some responsible for high human morbidity. Huge thanks to all colleagues, reviewers, and editors! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Wie wat bewaard heeft wat. Retrospectieve studie naar herinfectie met endemische coronavirussen. Conclusie:

Beschermende immuniteit kortdurend, herinfectie frequent, soms al binnen een jaar.

Geen reden om te denken dat dat voor SARS-CoV-2 anders is.

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Protective immunity against seasonal #coronaviruses is short-lived, likely also for #SARSCoV2 , published today in Nature Medicine. Very proud to be part of this amazing team and contribute to the fight against #COVID19 . nature.com/articles/s4159…

Recently read about the impact of COVID-19 in India (lnkd.in/gUshHR8) but found myself wanting a #datavisualization , so here it is. Good way to discover and use the #tooltipviz as well! #epidemiology #datascience
public.tableau.com/profile/margau…

Distraction! Lots of excellent information to digest here on the current uptake of Open Access at research institutes around the world.

Nice to see the UK at the top here!

arxiv.org/abs/2003.12273

Another study of #Hydroxychloroquine treatment for #COVID19 by the Marseille group, 80 patients, virus loads reduced, clinical improvement in al but two patients bit.ly/3bDvSUx #SARSCoV2

HOE COMMUNICEER IK MET EEN INTERNIST? Vijf tips.

Veel collega's moeten vanwege de COVID-19 crisis binnenkort aan de slag op een afdeling interne geneeskunde. Vijf tips & tricks om de omgang met internisten / arts-assistenten interne geneeskunde voor u te vergemakkelijken:

A new word that can be added to the dictionary, hitting multiple birds with one rock. 😂 #Covid_19 #donotbeacovidiot

I am insanely excited over @IGHLiverpool’s Christmas tree decorations this year but I don’t know who is responsible for them so I can’t go and excitedly hug them.🎄🎉✨

#GradSchool #PhDLife #Christmas #ScienceTwitter #AcademicTwitter

For our One Health PACT project, in addition to the 26 PhD students, we are recruiting a postdoc, with a very important role: 🕷 in the web for development of change scenarios that impact on outbreak risk. Positioned at Leiden University / Deltares, in close collab with erasmusMc

Amazing week at the CADDE Project Genomic Epidemiology workshop in Sao Paolo. Big shoutout to all the organisers and lecturers 👏! Coolest thing ever: using the #labinasuitcase from ARTIC Network to do real-time virus sequencing anywhere in the world. #caddeworkshop19

Last day of our Genomic Epidemiology #caddeworshop19 covering public health, genomics, entomology, evolution & epidemiology. 37 participants, 37 dengue genomes (+mosquitoes!) w/ Oxford Nanopore in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Thank you participants, lecturers & funders for the wonderful week!

Very happy to be a part of this work out today in @nature. nature.com/articles/s4158…. Mosquitoes, long thought to be local creatures moving 1-2km in their lives appear to be able to move up to 295km in a night on high altitude wind currents!