Undergrad Liya Miksovsky (Mon, 5:45-8:15PM, 220 DE) will present her work with Asher Leeks demonstrating the evolution of social cheating in M13, which was underlain by an unexpected genetic cause🧬.

Finally, Posdoc Asher Leeks (Tues, 4:45-5PM, 520D) is discussing his recent theoretical work that explores the dynamics of social cheating during viral infection. His model suggests that viral social interactions may shape human disease outcomes more than previously thought 😷.

Awesome opportunity to work on influenza reassortment with an exceptionally supportive mentor - as a postdoc or as a research technician.

Viruses aren’t just free-floating saboteurs. A burgeoning field has uncovered complex viral social behaviors including cheating, cooperation and other collective choreography. quantamagazine.org/viruses-finall…

We're hiring here UBC Zoology in comparative physiology! Come be my colleague in a fantastic department! If you have any questions about the department, UBC, or Vancouver, please don't hesitate to ask. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28155 Please spread widely.

Excited about the epidemiology of emerging viruses? We're looking for one or more postdocs in - count em - FOUR areas. Join us right as we move into a beautiful office full of brilliant and kind colleagues from across Yale's campus. (1/2) apply.interfolio.com/153039

Time to announce: I’ve just started a position as an Assistant Professor in Zoology (Animal Behaviour) at Trinity College Dublin School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin ! The lab’s gonna work on integrative studies of social and spatial behaviour and their effects on disease dynamics. Can’t wait.

Very happy to have this one published in nature today!! 🤩🤩 Can we dig deeper into the intricate and ancient evolutionary history of the flaviviridae by comparing not only genetic sequence but also protein structure? answer is yes!! nature.com/articles/s4158…

I'll be speaking about viral sociality at TEDxNewEngland on Wednesday 25th September, alongside a great lineup of other speakers. List of speakers & tickets here for anyone in the Boston area who might want to come: tedxnewengland.com/speakers #TEDxNE #SocialViruses #LoveVirology

Meet #TEDxNE Mind+Life conference speaker Asher Leeks! Asher is an incoming assistant professor of evolutionary biology at the University of British Columbia who studies social evolution in viruses. Asher will speak during conference session 2: LIFE at our inaugural event on 9/25: bit.ly/3Aw8ABy

🚨New paper!🚨 Excited to have played a small part (alongside MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research's Michaela Conley and Swetha Vijayakrishnan) in a study where #AndrewMcMahon and Nicole Robb ask 'Why do respiratory viruses form filamentous virions?' sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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📣📣So excited to see this Consensus View on a naming system for #Dengue lineages! With prevalence increasing globally and more sequencing being done, this was really needed @viralverity @NathanGrubaugh & lot is colleagues have done an amazing job here ⬇️⬇️

Just realizing Carl Zimmer's article on the Social Lives of viruses was syndicated to WIRED Magazine, one of my favorites for many years! cc: Asher Leeks #SocialViruses wired.com/story/the-comp…

A beautiful study showing how cheats emerge easily & then adapt to become better cheats - phage MS2 a fantastic model system for cheating & cooperation. And asking... are point-mutation cheats more common than we think in viruses? #SocialViruses #LoveVirology

We have a job opening for an immunologist in our dept UBC Dept of Microbiology and Immunology! Broad immunology position at the Assistant Prof level in beautiful Vancouver 😊 Apply by Oct 24th! Please repost and spread the word 🙏

Really excited to be starting my new role as a Wellcome Trust Early Career Research Fellow in Oxford Biology soon! Our group will focus on the molecular evolution of emerging human pathogens 🦠🧬🕗 Looking forward to all that lies ahead!