🦠 😷 Did you know? Humans transmit more viruses to other animals than they do to us. 

👉 #ENDVOC researchers Prof Francois Balloux Lucy van Dorp Cedric C.S. Tan at @UCL found that viral jumps from humans to other animals are twice as frequent than vice versa.

📌endvoc.eu/humans-transmi…

Pleased to share that this project from my PhD is now published in NatureEcoEvo! Many thanks to my amazing supervisors Prof Francois Balloux and Lucy van Dorp - I could not have done it without them.

Link to paper -> nature.com/articles/s4155…

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Currently advertising for a 3-year, Wellcome Trust-funded post-doc position at UCL: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…
aiming to disentangle the interplay between environmental pressures and our epigenome -- please inquire and/or pass along!

'Disease Evolution in the Human Past' - Join us March 21st 2024 The Crick for a half-day symposium in the Medicine at the Crick series.

🦠 Johannes Krause | “The genetic history and origin of the Black Death” MPI-EVA Leipzig

🦟 Lucy van Dorp | “Tracking zoonotic pathogens…

Group Leader in Infection & Artificial Inteligence UCL Division of Infection & Immunity
New post to strengthen AI & computational approaches to Infection Biology. Linking with world-class expertise @UCL bioscience, population sciences, computer science & structural biology tinyurl.com/3mpsu7pk

🦇 New research finds coronaviruses in UK bats, highlighting the need to understand viruses that can spread to humans.

Monitoring wildlife is crucial for future zoonotic threat prevention.

➡️ ow.ly/gpLw50P0lCJ

#COVID #ENDVOC cc Prof Francois Balloux Lucy van Dorp Cedric C.S. Tan

Prof Prof Francois Balloux and co-authors Dr @Lucyvandorp & Cedric C.S. Tan UCL Biosciences explain their findings in The Conversation: theconversation.com/we-found-coron… 3/4

The day for our first face to face symposium since 2019 has finally come. We've got a great lineup of speakers from #UCL and beyond. Come and let your mind be infected with the wonders of #microbes . UCL Innovation & Enterprise UCL Faculty of Medical Sciences UCL Faculty of Life Sciences UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences

Come and listen to a great lineup of internal speakers including Hernán A. Burbano Gemma Murray Harry McCelland Helen Hailes UCL Faculty of Life Sciences UCLGeneticsInstitute UCL Biosciences UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences UCL Engagement Team

We wrote a blog post about the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants with Lucy van Dorp, Damien Richard and adelaida sarukhan.
Credit for the infographic: Aleix Cabrera | Communication
isglobal.org/healthisglobal…

#EMBOpopgen is back for its sixth edition, in person 13 – 19 March 2023 in Procida, Italy!
Registration deadline 3rd Jan 2023 - RT please!

Enza Colonna Andrea Manica Flora Jay Kelley Harris AnnaSapfo Malaspinas Benjamin Peter Leo Speidel Lucy van Dorp

meetings.embo.org/event/23-pop-g… #EMBOpopgen

Our survey asking for YOUR views on microbiome engineering ⚙️ & live engineered bacteria 🦠 as therapies 💊for cancer treatment is now out. Particularly in colon cancers. Please RT😄 opinio.ucl.ac.uk/s?s=78105
#whywedoresearch #cancerresearch #patientsfirst

Is there a human blood microbiome? We unpack and address this existing controversy in our latest preprint (biorxiv.org/content/10.110…). Read on to find out more!