Genome Sciences is pleased to announce that Dr. Saori Sakaue and Dr. William DeWitt have accepted our offers to join the department as assistant professors! gs.washington.edu

Check out our grad student Lizzie Plender’s 1st first-author paper “Structural and genetic diversity in the secreted mucins MUC5AC and MUC5B” using LRS to depict human genetic diversity, detect selection signatures, and develop genotyping strategies. doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg…

Updated H5 qPCR primers/probes. Could be used to detect influenza A(H5) in clinical samples. Continuous sequence surveillance & updating of primer–probe sets still required to address ongoing viral evolution. 👉wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/30…

🦠 Working around the clock over the past 10 days to investigate the rapid viral expansion of OROV beyond the Amazon Basin! Fiocruz @LACENs Luiz Alcantara Vagner Fonseca Tulio de Oliveira @LourencoJML - climade.health/2024/08/04/rap…

If you've ever manually annotated a 96-well plate in excel you know how painful it is. Nishant Jha wrote a webapp to make this easier (including an export feature!). plateplanner.nitro.bio/Demo

Powassan #virus Encephalitis After Tick Bite, Manitoba, Canada dlvr.it/TBkXK4 CDC_EIDjournal

I'm proud to present you my newly accepted article: "Phylogenetic tree statistics: A systematic overview using the new R package ‘treestats’", which you can find here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ympe… What is it about? Want to know more? 1/20

We tracked a pandemic decimating beetle colonies and used cryoEM for sequencing-free discovery of the new virus that caused it. This virus is crazy; parvoviruses aren't supposed to have such structured protein-DNA interactions. We fulfilled all 4 of Koch's postulates for etiology

Here is analysis of HA mutations in H5 influenza case in Missouri resident without known contact w animals or raw milk. TLDR: there is one HA mutation that strongly affects antigenicity, and another that merits some further study.

Congrats to @NathanGrubaugh and colleagues on this very important new resource

Extremely honored and ecstatic to be named a 2024 #STATWunderkind ! Many thanks to STAT for highlighting my work on using genomic epi and phylodynamics to understand mpox dynamics affecting queer communities around the globe. Read more here: statnews.com/meet-the-2024-…

To facilitate rapid testing, production of fluorescent and bioluminescent variant strains using RG system. These strains useful in high-throughput evaluation of antiviral interventions 👉journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10.11…

Happy to share our latest preprint describing clinical assay validation for RSV whole genome sequencing using a modified version of the ARTIC RSV panel doi.org/10.1101/2025.0… <thread> 1/