Colorado reports the 4th human infection with the #birdflu virus circulating in cows. Farmworker. Symptoms like cases 1 & 2 — conjunctivitis. At this point it's clearly an #H5 infection; @CDC will be testing to see if there is enough virus to confirm the N type. Not surprising.

Not sure how I ended up in here but thanks The Listener 😅

Awesome work from Rhys White 🧬 and team on detecting an MRSA outbreak using nanopore sequencing. Thank you for the opportunity to collaborate on this research 🧬

Proud to share our lab’s work on anti-#CRISPR regulation out in nature. Came about from following up on those interesting things that don’t quite make sense… #curiosity. Check out the short explainer from Nils Birkholz 👇

Want to do a PhD University of Otago with Michael Knapp, Pascale Lubbe & me on evolution of Aotearoa NZ manu birds, then we’d love to have you 🦤🦴🧬. Plenty of opportunities for fieldwork as well.

And now online here academic.oup.com/ve/advance-art…

We’ve got a new short comm out as a preprint! 📌Resolving a neonatal intensive care unit outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus to the SNV level using Oxford Oxford Nanopore simplex reads and HERRO error correction | bioRxiv #bioRxiv doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Interventions used to control COVID-19 in NZ also eliminated RSV. ESR generated RSV genomes to better understand RSV transmission patterns in NZ, and reveal how RSV became re-established following the relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions David Winter medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Here we describe the intriguing sequence of a new pararetrovirus extracted from the feces of an insectivorous bat. Together with a viral sequence found in permafrost, it defines a new kind of highly divergent viruses. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I am looking for a post-doc to work on our ⁦MBIE Science⁩ project on #phages for #biocontrol #microbiology #genomics #genetics ⁦Microbiology and Immunology Otago⁩ ⁦University of Otago⁩ pls repost otago.taleo.net/careersection/…

Permanent position available at the University of Otago in Microbiology - please spread the word! otago.taleo.net/careersection/…

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

Plenary speaker Amy Jennison (Queensland Health) on #Genomics for responding to emerging bacterial public health threats 🧬WGS in #PublicHealth labs 🦠Post-COVID applications 🔬Case studies: B. pseudomallei, C. diphtheriae 🔍 Metagenomics for diagnostics & surveillance #QRW2024

Next is Heather L Hendrickson (University of Canterbury) "There's a #phage for that... Progress towards identifying promising pathogens and their phages in #PrimaryIndustries" 🐝P. larvae in honey bees 🦠26 novel phages discovered 🧪97% pathogen coverage 🔬Ongoing work on phage cocktails #PhageTherapy #QRW2024

🔬Fiona Constable (Agriculture Victoria) on "A #Genomics approach to investigate phytoplasma taxonomy and diversity in Australia" 🧬Novel #Phytoplasma enrichment method 🦠Whole genome-based taxonomic delimitation 🌱9 species identified 🔍Analysed 190+ samples from Aussie veggie regions #QRW2024

🧬Donna Waite (Ministry for Primary Industries): Rapid ID of Pepino mosaic virus via Oxford Nanopore in NZ outbreak 🍅PepMV detected in NZ commercial greenhouse ⚡5-day turnaround for sequencing 🦠CH2 clade & PVX identified 🔬SNP analysis for virulence assessment 🌱Informed real-time response #QRW2024

🧬Emma Voss (University of Otago & LIC): Comparative #Genomics of ST1 Staphylococcus aureus in NZ 🦠460 bovine, 9 human isolates sequenced 🧫New bovine-derived ST1 reference genome 🔍Host-specific clustering 🐄Bovine MGE key for host adaptation 🤝#OneHealth approach needed #QRW2024

Planary talk by Michelle Wille from University of Melbourne shares how #Genomics of low pathogenicity avian #influenza enhances our understanding of risk assessment and preparedness for high pathogenicity avian influenza in Australia. #InfluenzaResearch #QRW2024

Reconstructing virus evolutionary history is hard! Structural prediction and phylogenetics can help👍 Check out our new study out in nature nature.com/articles/s4158… University of Sydney Sydney Health

Less than 2 weeks to get your job application in for a permanent academic position in our department Microbiology and Immunology Otago University of Otago. Please share. Molecular microbiology.