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💉 How a small vaccine drop could see #measles becoming endemic again To stop measles spreading, 95% of the population must be vaccinated. Worldwide vaccine coverage is falling short with <84% of 5yr olds in England received both doses of MMR vaccine. theconversation.com/how-a-small-va…

Great to see our article published in The Scotsman on the risk of #measles becoming endemic after worrying ⬇️ in childhood #vaccination rates 🦠💉👶👩‍🔬 Co-authored by Anastasia Theodosiou MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research & Chrissie Jones University of Southampton scotsman.com/news/opinion/c…

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📄 NEW | How #SARSCoV2 evolves differently within the same host In a set of cases of longer-term infection, SARS-CoV-2 evolved both faster and slower than would be expected, and sometimes at different rates in different directions within the same person. gla.ac.uk/research/az/cv…

Read the paper: journals.plos.org/plospathogens/… Research led by Ewan Smith in the Illingworth Lab (Chris Illingworth). Collaborations: Cambridge University Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Funding: @the_mrc Wellcome

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Now online! The recency and geographical origins of the bat viruses ancestral to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 dlvr.it/TKcwJw

The recency and geographical origins of the bat viruses ancestral to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 Cell What a great work Jonathan Jonathan Pekar and Spyros Spyros Lytras 🤩🤩🤩‼️ cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

📄 NEW | Genetic Study shows that Wildlife Trade Sparked COVID-19 Virus Emergence in Humans SARS-CoV-2 arrived in Wuhan too quickly for its bat hosts to have carried it there. Paper: cell.com/cell/fulltext/… More: gla.ac.uk/research/az/cv… Robertson Spyros Lytras Joseph Hughes

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Our study on CoVFit, an AI that predicts the fitness of SARS-CoV-2 from spike protein sequences, is now out in Nat Commun! CoVFit helps uncover viral evolutionary mechanisms, detect emerging variants, and forecast viral evolution! nature.com/articles/s4146…

📢 You have until Friday 30th May to submit an abstract to present at this year's #GlasgowVirologyWorkshop! We'd love to hear from delegates of all backgrounds and career stages. Send a PDF with your abstract (~200 words) name, email and affiliation to [email protected].

The CoVFit paper is now published Nature Communications !! Exciting work led by Jumpei Ito really showing the potential of pLMs for genotype-2-phenotype predictions! Code and instructions for the command line tool here: github.com/TheSatoLab/CoV…

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Super excited to see this very cool work published in Nature Communications on SFTSV by Marine Petit from her time at .MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research #tick #bunyavirus #lovevirology 🕷️ 🦠 🔗 nature.com/articles/s4146…

📢 You have THREE days left to submit an abstract for the upcoming #GlasgowVirologyWorkshop! We'd love to hear from delegates of all backgrounds and career stages. Send a PDF with your abstract, name, email and affiliation to [email protected].

We are delighted to announce that Professor Emma Thomson Emma Thomson has been appointed as the new Director of the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research! 🔬🦠 UK Research and Innovation Medical Research Council Read more➡️ gla.ac/455EjH0

We are super excited about this news! 🎉 Emma Thomson Prof Emma Thomson is an internationally recognised expert in emerging infectious diseases and will continue to lead the CVR as it plays a key part in national and international pandemic response. gla.ac.uk/research/az/cv…