[⚠️JOB ALERT⚠️] 1/6 We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join the project Enabling Nutrient Symbioses in Agriculture ENSA Your goal will be to discover how ☘️nitrogen-fixing symbiosis evolved using phylogenomics!

📢 |🆕 joint report with ECDC & #EURL on #AvianFlu: lowest numbers in Europe since 2019/2020. Outside Europe, new mammal species affected, several #HPAI subtypes circulating, & new transmission route identified. More 📖 → europa.eu/!46vyjR #AvianInfluenza

I was interviewed about this article by Monique Steele for RNZ RNZ rural news rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

Density matters: How population dynamics of house mice (Mus musculus) inform the epidemiology of Leptospira 🐁 The wider movement patterns and easier encounters of positive mice highlight the possibility of biases in classical prevalence surveys 📊 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

Are you using conservation tech? Join the WILDLABS Annual #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge. Share photos/videos of how you use tech for wildlife conservation on social media between now and Aug 9 with the hashtag #Tech4Wildlife.

This article sums up the devastating impact that this highly pathogenic avian influenza variant has had so far on wild birds and mammals globally. We need to prevent this virus from ever spilling over from poultry to wildlife again. #vogelgriep news.mongabay.com/2024/08/animal…

Excited to share this collaborative work with Zamin Iqbal ! We're thrilled about the potential impact LexicMap could have on advancing microbial genomics research! Imagine how cool it is to search for a gene (with >30k hits) against 2 million bacterial genomes within 1 minute!

Our lab at Cornell is hiring a postdoc to lead investigations of viral #zoonoses in #Bats and develop strategies for pandemic prevention. Background in #DiseaseEcology, #OneHealth, #EEID, or epidemiology. More details here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28001

HKU5 in minks! 😣 ‘We identified a MERS-like coronavirus—Pipistrellus bat coronavirus HKU5—in two mink from a single farm associated with an outbreak of pneumonia, as well as the first report, to our knowledge, of a coronavirus in nutria.’ nature.com/articles/s4158…