Heartfelt thank you to all who made the #NextflowSummit in Boston a triumph! 🙌 🇺🇲 Here you have a short video that celebrates our vibrant community 🚀 ➡ Mark your calendars for the #NextflowSummit in Boston 2024, happening in the week of May 13! 🤩

B.C. continues to experience higher levels of invasive group A streptococcal (iGAS) infections than usual, especially among children. Invasive bacterial infections are often associated with viral respiratory infections during winter months. Learn more: bccdc.ca/about/news-sto…

Pivotal figures of our past, present and future. Today, and always, we remember our Busby Babes: the #FlowersofManchester 🌹🕊️

Manchester United is pleased to confirm that Sir Jim Ratcliffe has completed his 27.7% acquisition of the club, following approval of all conditions, including the FA and the Premier League. #MUFC

Complete our Pandemics and Borders Project survey on COVID-19 travel measures for Canada/US travel. If you are 18 yrs+ and lived in US or Canada btwn March 2020-May 2023, we want your perspective. SFU Health Sciences and @WWU_BPRI team seek to inform future pandemic policies. pilotsurveysfu.limesurvey.net/855841?lang=en

The latest edition of The CoVaRR-Net Quarterly newsletter is out. Every three months, we feature the latest information and insights from CoVaRR-Net's team of researchers. Read and subscribe here: ow.ly/2Vbq50R0Meg

Bactopia now supports AllTheBacteria assemblies! 🎉 If you are planning secondary analyses, this feature allows you to seamlessly use Bactopia. To demonstrate this, here's a blog post using Bactopia to analyze 5400 L. pneumophila assemblies bactopia.github.io/latest/blog/20…

CoVaRR-Net’s #CAMEO tracks SARS-CoV-2 variants like JN.1 & 400+ lineages, along with the flu, RSV, and emerging viruses, predicting respiratory illness spikes & helping minimize health impact. Learn more: ow.ly/K5Ki50R3any

BREAKING: The Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Public Health Agency of Canada jointly announce Canada will be expanding surveillance of #H5N1, including cattle and retail milk testing, amid ongoing outbreak among U.S. dairy cattle. More from their new statement:

The Canadian VirusSeq Data Portal & Duotang: open resources for SARS-CoV-2 viral sequences and genomic epidemiology. arxiv.org/abs/2405.04734

This football club ❤️ unbelievable finish to the season.

Whatever the noise around .. he took the game by the scruff of the neck and dragged his team over the line .. and that pass ! not many can even see it, let alone to execute!! #MUFC

Congratulations to FHS Associate Professor William Hsiao and SFU Knowledge Mobilization Director (and FHS alum!) @lupinrain who will be co-leading two genomics hubs that will foster innovation and support sustainability in Canadian agriculture. #SFUResearch #SFUFHS #genomics

MBB professor William Hsiao William Hsiao co-leading new genomics hub that will innovate Canadian agriculture with $15.8M investment.

🧬 The blog post I wrote as a #NextflowAmbassador breaks down how we designed #VIRUSMVP to remove bioinformatics bottlenecks in One Health contexts. 📄 We’ve also released a preprint detailing the methods and benchmarking: 👉 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…