I have deleted my ad for graduate students. I have been swamped with > 250 emails from students about the position. However, the vast majority fail to address WHY our lab, use a stock form email (e.g. AI generated), or don't have the background. A thread: 1/5

Viruses as drivers of autoimmunity: "youth with presymptomatic type 1 diabetes demonstrated that the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with an accelerated progression to clinical disease and that this acceleration was confined to those with COVID-19" jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Logan is the largest dataset of assemblies. Rayan Chikhi et al. assembled over 27M SRA samples (>50 peta-byte of reads) into two peta-bytes of contigs. Amazing resource, fully open source! <3 📄biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Code: github.com/IndexThePlanet… 💾 registry.opendata.aws/pasteur-logan/

Are you a current or former postdoc or other ECR in Cambridge Pathology? Let us know so we can follow you, and DM anything you'd like to share with a wider audience 🥼🧪🧫💻

Yeah... People, please don't do this.

Guess who's excited to jump on the VUGENE board as a brand new CSO? :) It couldn't be any better than overtaking the magnificent work of Migle Gabrielaite while congratulating her on her own postdoc! To many bioinformatic adventures! Who needs their data to be analysed? 😉😊

🤩Plz RT🤩 Assist/Assoc. Prof. Position job open at Lunenfeld/UofToronto in Computational #Virology/#Genomics. Toronto is reaching critical mass in #microbiology #bioinformatics Let's make it happen! #AcademicTwitter #AcademicCareer Future PI Slack 🏹🎯 nature.com/naturecareers/…

The field of #ComputationalBiology has changed dramatically in the last few years with #GenerativeAI. I'm excited to be recording my lectures again this year, and to be teaching with the awesome @EjAlm. You can find the first lecture here: youtu.be/1zZSPeKGRzw and more will

Another congratulations 🎉 to Simon Roux !!

Me and my RdRp folders after a great 8 years at Cambridge University . Massive thanks to Firth Lab (and for a bit AJ te Velthuis group) for nurturing me into the scientist I am today. #goodbye

🤯Take a deep dive on the tiny #microbes living around us, and how they shape our health & planet 🤯 Join us today *1PM EST* for the Gairdner Foundation Global Perspectives Panel Discussion on The #Microbiome: From Planetary🌎 to Microbial🦠 Scale! Free: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Dr. Babaian (Artem Babaian) and his team are doing big things. Using computational biology and AI, he identified over 150k+ new RNA viruses in only 11 days. That number will grow to 100 million by 2030. Ep. 12 | In Vivo with Dr. Artem Babaian on Planetary Wide Virus Surveillance -

Review of HPAI, w focus on molecular and ecological factors driving HPAIs sudden expansion in host range + assess likelihood of different zoonotic pathways leading to an potential pandemic. Also, really like this figure highlighting all the reassortment! 👉nature.com/articles/s4158…

I have a new preprint! Uncovering hundreds of exogenous and endogenous RNA viral RdRp sequences amongst uncharacterised sequences in public protein databases biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧵1/6

Thanks to everyone in Firth Lab especially Andrew Firth, also Ingrida Olendraite for helpful chats! I had fun working on this one! Cambridge Pathology University of Cambridge Pathology Postdocs European Virus Bioinformatics Center #bioinformatics #rnavirus

If you work with metagenomes (or metatranscriptomes), would like to explore what viruses/phages are in your datasets, but don't know where to start, we have (an) MVP for you now \o/ Really happy to see this one published, and also welcoming feedback/suggestion of improvement!

We're in the midst of a Computational revolution in biology, comparable to the Molecular revolution of the 70s. Baker, Demis Hassabis , and Jumper receiving the Nobel Prize not only recognizes their achievement, it's a coming of age for #bioinformatics. 🥳🎉

😎🗣️So exited to share my Cell paper - using AI model to unveal hidden RNA virosphere across global!! Today's Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to protein design and AlphaFold, highlighting the importance of this pathbreaking research!! See more here: cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

If you like this kind of work we have a funded PhD place in the lab starting in Oct 2025 to explore antiviral innate immune responses across species. See here for details of how to apply or ask me for more info: bbsrcdtp.lifesci.cam.ac.uk/available-targ…