Andrew (Andy) Broadbent
@drandybroadbent.bsky.social
Research Scientist, Veterinarian, Assistant Professor- microbiology, virology, immunology - views my own 🦠🔬🧬🐾🏳️🌈🇬🇧
16/04/26: mark your calendars! I’m co-hosting the One Health symposium “pathogens without borders: multi-host veterinary infections” at The Microbiology Society 2026 annual meeting in Belfast! Abstracts are open until 11/11/25. Hurry, that’s not long! 🐓 🐄 🐖 🧫 🪱 🦠 🧬 #Microbio26
November 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
16/04/26: mark your calendars! I’m co-hosting the One Health symposium “pathogens without borders: multi-host veterinary infections” at The Microbiology Society 2026 annual meeting in Belfast! Abstracts are open until 11/11/25. Hurry, that’s not long! 🐓 🐄 🐖 🧫 🪱 🦠 🧬 #Microbio26
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Stay tuned for Conference updates by following our social media channels and visiting the events page: microb.io/AC26 #Microbio26
Annual Conference 2026
13─16 April 2026
microb.io
September 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Stay tuned for Conference updates by following our social media channels and visiting the events page: microb.io/AC26 #Microbio26
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Join us for Annual Conference 2026!
Abstract submission and registration are open for the UK’s largest annual gathering of microbiologists.
Held in Belfast, UK, this year’s Conference also features two-day attendance tickets.
Abstract submission and registration are open for the UK’s largest annual gathering of microbiologists.
Held in Belfast, UK, this year’s Conference also features two-day attendance tickets.
September 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Join us for Annual Conference 2026!
Abstract submission and registration are open for the UK’s largest annual gathering of microbiologists.
Held in Belfast, UK, this year’s Conference also features two-day attendance tickets.
Abstract submission and registration are open for the UK’s largest annual gathering of microbiologists.
Held in Belfast, UK, this year’s Conference also features two-day attendance tickets.
Had a blast hosting another science panel at @creationent.bsky.social ‘s Star Trek convention- this time in New Jersey #STNJ. The audience was incredible - so engaged and knowledgeable. Live long and prosper people! 🖖 ❤️
September 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Had a blast hosting another science panel at @creationent.bsky.social ‘s Star Trek convention- this time in New Jersey #STNJ. The audience was incredible - so engaged and knowledgeable. Live long and prosper people! 🖖 ❤️
Some of you already know I’m a massive sci fi nerd, so I was incredibly excited to get the opportunity to give a talk/ host a science panel at Creation Entertainment’s ST-LV: Trek to Vegas Convention 2025!! Thanks @creationent.bsky.social - The audience were amazing! So many cool questions! 🖖
August 11, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Some of you already know I’m a massive sci fi nerd, so I was incredibly excited to get the opportunity to give a talk/ host a science panel at Creation Entertainment’s ST-LV: Trek to Vegas Convention 2025!! Thanks @creationent.bsky.social - The audience were amazing! So many cool questions! 🖖
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The shoebill stork looks like a dinosaur.. 🦖
Such a beautiful looking bird… 🐦
Such a beautiful looking bird… 🐦
July 27, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The shoebill stork looks like a dinosaur.. 🦖
Such a beautiful looking bird… 🐦
Such a beautiful looking bird… 🐦
Had a fabulous time at the American Society for Virology 2025 annual meeting in Montreal #ASV2025 - awesome catching up with friends and colleagues, and my team did great with their presentations and posters!
July 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Had a fabulous time at the American Society for Virology 2025 annual meeting in Montreal #ASV2025 - awesome catching up with friends and colleagues, and my team did great with their presentations and posters!
Ahh! I am blown away! I’ve been complaining I need a white board in my office, as during meetings I scribble on sticky notes and papers and the like - and today they surprised me with one !! ❤️ 🖤 💛 🧬 🦠
June 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Ahh! I am blown away! I’ve been complaining I need a white board in my office, as during meetings I scribble on sticky notes and papers and the like - and today they surprised me with one !! ❤️ 🖤 💛 🧬 🦠
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The International Symposium on Avian Influenza is coming up soon, and really looking forward to meeting colleagues again. If you cant make it in person, fear not, we will be fully hybrid!
👉 AvianInfluenzaSymposium.com
👉 AvianInfluenzaSymposium.com
May 19, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The International Symposium on Avian Influenza is coming up soon, and really looking forward to meeting colleagues again. If you cant make it in person, fear not, we will be fully hybrid!
👉 AvianInfluenzaSymposium.com
👉 AvianInfluenzaSymposium.com
2024 was quite the year for veterinary virology! Read all about how @amersocvirology.bsky.social brought the community together and facilitated discussions & networking (generously funded by #usda_nifa). The Ag/vet sector needs virologists now more than ever! #lovevirology doi.org/10.1128/jvi....
A veterinary virapalooza: a summary of the 2024 American Society for Virology (ASV) Veterinary/Zoonotic Virology Satellite Symposium and online H5N1 panel discussion | Journal of Virology
The American Society for Virology (ASV) is committed to representing and supporting
its members who specialize in viral diseases of animals. To this end, the 2024 annual
meeting held in June at the Gr...
doi.org
May 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
2024 was quite the year for veterinary virology! Read all about how @amersocvirology.bsky.social brought the community together and facilitated discussions & networking (generously funded by #usda_nifa). The Ag/vet sector needs virologists now more than ever! #lovevirology doi.org/10.1128/jvi....
I made it to Liverpool! Better late than never! Looking forward to some cool science. Come see the virus forms (fora?) - especially our one on RNA in Viral Replication, 2:45pm Tues, level 1, hall 11C! #lovevirology #Microbio25 #MicroSoc25 (hedging my bets with the tags @microbiologysociety.org )
March 31, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I made it to Liverpool! Better late than never! Looking forward to some cool science. Come see the virus forms (fora?) - especially our one on RNA in Viral Replication, 2:45pm Tues, level 1, hall 11C! #lovevirology #Microbio25 #MicroSoc25 (hedging my bets with the tags @microbiologysociety.org )
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Today @natmedicine.bsky.social published our study showing the older individuals born prior to 1968 have more antibodies that cross-react to #H5N1 relative to younger individuals. If H5N1 causes a pandemic, children will likely be the most susceptible. 1/2
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Immune history shapes human antibody responses to H5N1 influenza viruses - Nature Medicine
H5N1 strain-specific antibodies are higher in older individuals and correlate more with birth year than with age, suggesting that younger individuals are potentially more likely to benefit from H5N1 v...
www.nature.com
March 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Today @natmedicine.bsky.social published our study showing the older individuals born prior to 1968 have more antibodies that cross-react to #H5N1 relative to younger individuals. If H5N1 causes a pandemic, children will likely be the most susceptible. 1/2
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Congratulations to @microbiologysociety.org for meeting S2O targets for their J Gen Virology and J Med Micro journals, enabling open access for all. The S2O model is the most sustainable for societies to provide OA publications. Onward for other journals and for @asm.org as well!
March 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Congratulations to @microbiologysociety.org for meeting S2O targets for their J Gen Virology and J Med Micro journals, enabling open access for all. The S2O model is the most sustainable for societies to provide OA publications. Onward for other journals and for @asm.org as well!
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Why are H13 and H16 restricted to gulls? H13 prefers fucosylated α2-3 sialosides, which were distributed widely in the respiratory tract and intestines of gulls but not in the colon of ducks. How cool.
👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
February 28, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Why are H13 and H16 restricted to gulls? H13 prefers fucosylated α2-3 sialosides, which were distributed widely in the respiratory tract and intestines of gulls but not in the colon of ducks. How cool.
👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Hi everyone, to counter the doomscrolling, I would like to put out there that I am looking to recruit a postdoc to start this spring/summer- preferably someone with prior virology experience. Please forward. Thank you! #virologysky #lovevirology #sciencesky umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCP/job/Uni...
Postdoctoral Associate
Job Description Summary Organization Summary Statement: Andrew Broadbent, DVM, PhD, in the department of Animal and Avian Sciences at the University of Maryland (UMD), College Park, is recruiting a po...
umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
February 21, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Hi everyone, to counter the doomscrolling, I would like to put out there that I am looking to recruit a postdoc to start this spring/summer- preferably someone with prior virology experience. Please forward. Thank you! #virologysky #lovevirology #sciencesky umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCP/job/Uni...
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USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them
In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them
In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
www.nbcnews.com
February 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them
In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
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ein.az.gov/avian-influe... A third distinct H5N1 detected in cattle, Arizona reports
Avian influenza found in dairy cattle in Maricopa County | az2-dema-ein
On February 11, 2025 the Arizona Department of Agriculture (AZDA), working in conjunction with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), confirmed Arizona’s first identified H5N1 avian influ...
ein.az.gov
February 15, 2025 at 6:48 AM
ein.az.gov/avian-influe... A third distinct H5N1 detected in cattle, Arizona reports
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A third spillover of H5N1 into dairy cows...this time in Arizona. Genotype D1.1 again. Enhanced milk surveillance picked this up like in Nevada. Enhanced surveillance finds more cases...
February 15, 2025 at 1:46 AM
A third spillover of H5N1 into dairy cows...this time in Arizona. Genotype D1.1 again. Enhanced milk surveillance picked this up like in Nevada. Enhanced surveillance finds more cases...
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An H5N1 serosurvey paper was released in MMWR Weekly today . Three of 150 vets had detectable neutralizing or HAI antibodies.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
Notes from the Field: Seroprevalence of Highly ...
This report describes evidence of recent highly pathogenic avian influenza infection among three veterinary practitioners.
www.cdc.gov
February 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
An H5N1 serosurvey paper was released in MMWR Weekly today . Three of 150 vets had detectable neutralizing or HAI antibodies.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
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Dear Virology Community, please see ASV’s statement to our members and the scientific community. asv.org/asv-statemen...
ASV Statement for our Members | American Society for Virology
Our American Society for Virology (ASV) promotes the study and combatting of viruses, more than ever recognizing their importance and responding to them with research and education. Our academic…
asv.org
February 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Dear Virology Community, please see ASV’s statement to our members and the scientific community. asv.org/asv-statemen...
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looking for labs in blue states who will be hiring technicians (recent grads). i want to get a list together to share with some very talented UGs & would appreciate the info! Please repost if you don't mind! thanks :)
February 12, 2025 at 5:08 AM
looking for labs in blue states who will be hiring technicians (recent grads). i want to get a list together to share with some very talented UGs & would appreciate the info! Please repost if you don't mind! thanks :)
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This is bad news. It suggests reassortment of circulating H5N1 viruses with viruses containing N9 NA.
Although this indicates reassortment with avian viruses, it's still bad. Reassortment makes pandemics. The last 3/4 flu pandemics (and likely 1918 too) were reassortant viruses.
Although this indicates reassortment with avian viruses, it's still bad. Reassortment makes pandemics. The last 3/4 flu pandemics (and likely 1918 too) were reassortant viruses.
1st U.S. case of H5N9 bird flu (different from H5N1) reported on California duck farm
1st U.S. case of H5N9 bird flu reported on California duck farm - National | Globalnews.ca
The United States has reported its first outbreak of H5N9 bird flu in poultry on a duck farm in California, the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Monday.
globalnews.ca
January 27, 2025 at 10:43 PM
This is bad news. It suggests reassortment of circulating H5N1 viruses with viruses containing N9 NA.
Although this indicates reassortment with avian viruses, it's still bad. Reassortment makes pandemics. The last 3/4 flu pandemics (and likely 1918 too) were reassortant viruses.
Although this indicates reassortment with avian viruses, it's still bad. Reassortment makes pandemics. The last 3/4 flu pandemics (and likely 1918 too) were reassortant viruses.
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Really proud to share our preprint describing early adaptation of H5N1 to US dairy cattle, and showing how these mutations enhance the ability of the virus to infect other mammals, such as pigs and humans.
With @influenzal.bsky.social @vidhid.bsky.social @drclairesmith.bsky.social and many more!
With @influenzal.bsky.social @vidhid.bsky.social @drclairesmith.bsky.social and many more!
Polymerase mutations underlie adaptation of H5N1 influenza virus to dairy cattle and other mammals.
In early 2024, an unprecedented outbreak of H5N1 high pathogenicity avian influenza was detected in dairy cattle in the USA. The epidemic remains uncontrolled, with spillbacks into poultry, wild birds...
www.biorxiv.org
January 7, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Really proud to share our preprint describing early adaptation of H5N1 to US dairy cattle, and showing how these mutations enhance the ability of the virus to infect other mammals, such as pigs and humans.
With @influenzal.bsky.social @vidhid.bsky.social @drclairesmith.bsky.social and many more!
With @influenzal.bsky.social @vidhid.bsky.social @drclairesmith.bsky.social and many more!
Lab Christmas party (pictured)- check; department Christmas party- check; college Christmas party - check. Time for the holidays.
December 21, 2024 at 1:52 AM
Lab Christmas party (pictured)- check; department Christmas party- check; college Christmas party - check. Time for the holidays.
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Get ready for ASV 2025! The 2025 American Society for Virology meeting will be hosted by McGill University and held at the Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada from July 14 - 17, 2025. Abstract submission, travel award apps, and registration are now open! asv.org/asv2025/regi...
Register 2025 | American Society for Virology
The 44th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Virology! Dates: July 14 – 17, 2025 (Monday – Thursday) Palais des congrès de Montréal Host: McGill University *TEACHER TRAVEL GRANTS: Applications…
asv.org
December 4, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Get ready for ASV 2025! The 2025 American Society for Virology meeting will be hosted by McGill University and held at the Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada from July 14 - 17, 2025. Abstract submission, travel award apps, and registration are now open! asv.org/asv2025/regi...