We are looking for an enthusiastic, talented postdoc to work with us on influenza within host spread. Position starts in Fall 2024. Come join us in beautiful Long Island! Please apply via the link below: stonybrooku.taleo.net/careersection/…

#BirdFlu: Diverse range of vaccines platforms “crucial” for enhancing human pandemic preparedness, suggests new review of research to-date. Flavio Cargnin Faccin et al's study launches following second case of avian influenza spreading from cows to humans⚠️ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Interesting piece in Cosmos, covering this new review of research🗞️ @imma_perfetto looks at how prepared Australia is should a strain of bird flu infect the human population👇 cosmosmagazine.com/health/body-an…

Review on pandemic preparedness for avian influenza viruses - vaccines in animal models and clinical trials on H5N1, H7N9, and H9N2 vaccines in humans 👉tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

The Microbiology Department at Penn is hiring Professors of all ranks, and I'm co-chairing the search committee with Dr. Sunny Shin/Betts Lab. Please RT and contact us if you have questions about the position and our department. apply.interfolio.com/148381 apply.interfolio.com/148380

H7N5 HPAIV has been confirmed in a Bad Bentheim farm with 90,000 hens, Germany. The infected flock was culled, and strict measures are in place in the surrounding zones to contain the outbreak. 1.5 million birds are in the restriction zone. topagrar.com/gefluegel/gefl…

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Molecular cloning: a ubiquitous and essential molecular biology technique. It's also the reason many scientists become superstitious, some equating cloning to witchcraft. But why, and does it have to be this way?

Just hung up my poster at my first CEIRRNetwork annual meeting! If you’re here, come see me at poster A027 at the poster session this afternoon!

New preprint! We aim to understand how influenza virus dispersal shapes evolutionary potential within the respiratory tract. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Key findings 👉👉

New study on influenza A(#H5N1) virus resilience in milk after thermal inactivation: The consistent absence of viable virus suggests the pasteurization and homogenization processes might contribute to viral inactivation. bit.ly/3zHAzyd

Last paper from the Perez lab showing our work regarding the inactivation of Influenza H5N1 and other subtypes in pasteurization-like conditions 🤗🤗. Happy to finally see this out there!! Flavio Cargnin Faccin UGA College of Veterinary Medicine CEIRRNetwork #H5N1 #influenza #milk

In addition to Holstein cows, experimental infections demonstrates Jersey cows are susceptible to H5N1 infection and their potential as an experimental model 👉researchsquare.com/article/rs-691…