Hilary Snaith
@hilarysnaith.bsky.social
Edinburgh resident, research developer for infectious diseases, curious explorer, yarn-lover!
Potatoes evolved from tomatoes - read all about it in this week's @cellpress.bsky.social
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The potato evolved from the tomato 9 million years ago
Recent Cell research covered by The Guardian, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and more.
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October 31, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Potatoes evolved from tomatoes - read all about it in this week's @cellpress.bsky.social
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Interesting reading in @cellpress.bsky.social this week in three papers that explore monoclonal antibodies against #mpox infection
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Issue: Cell
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October 31, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Interesting reading in @cellpress.bsky.social this week in three papers that explore monoclonal antibodies against #mpox infection
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Cheap drug could fight malaria by spoiling mosquitoes’ blood meal | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Cheap drug could fight malaria by spoiling mosquitoes’ blood meal
Field study in Kenya suggests innovative strategy has promise—but some researchers question its viability
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August 4, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Cheap drug could fight malaria by spoiling mosquitoes’ blood meal | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Interesting and somewhat sobering comment in @nature.com about the potential penalties of interdisciplinary research
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Researchers who ‘pivot’ into new fields should not be given a citation penalty
The COVID-19 pandemic showed the value of changing direction in research. It should be incentivized, encouraged and celebrated.
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June 6, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Interesting and somewhat sobering comment in @nature.com about the potential penalties of interdisciplinary research
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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🐕 Research Focus: From managing free-roaming domestic dog populations to the genomics of crossbred cattle 🐄
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Research Focus: From managing free-roaming domestic dog populations to the genomics of crossbred cattle
May 2025: A collection of publication highlights from Edinburgh Infectious Diseases over the past month.
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May 30, 2025 at 8:42 AM
🐕 Research Focus: From managing free-roaming domestic dog populations to the genomics of crossbred cattle 🐄
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Interesting particle in Science this week confirming the leprosy bacterium existed—and may have been widespread—in North and South America before European contact | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Leprosy was an American scourge long before Europeans arrived
Scientists find DNA from an enigmatic bacterium in 1000-year-old skeletons
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May 30, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Interesting particle in Science this week confirming the leprosy bacterium existed—and may have been widespread—in North and South America before European contact | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Many congratulations to #HostsPathogensGlobalHealth PhD student Mackenzie Moore for being awarded 1st place for first year PhD student posters at the R(D)SVS PGR Student Conference 🎉🎉🎉 @roslininstitute.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social 🧪
May 22, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Many congratulations to #HostsPathogensGlobalHealth PhD student Mackenzie Moore for being awarded 1st place for first year PhD student posters at the R(D)SVS PGR Student Conference 🎉🎉🎉 @roslininstitute.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social 🧪
Many congratulations - great to see this project getting underway🎉
Delighted to see launch of ARTIC-2 project - colleagues @aineotoole.bsky.social @arambaut.bsky.social and @rmcolq.bsky.social working with @pathogenomenick.bsky.social @articnetwork.bsky.social to develop low-cost pathogen genome sequencing 🧪🦠🧫
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May 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Many congratulations - great to see this project getting underway🎉
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Catch up on our latest newsletter packed with events, job listings and seminars happening in the EID community!
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May 20, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Catch up on our latest newsletter packed with events, job listings and seminars happening in the EID community!
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🎉 Thank you to all who attended our 14th Symposium last Friday 🎉
It was an amazing day with plenty of interesting talks, community building, poster sessions and a wonderful Ker Memorial Prize Lecture delivered by Prof Andy Waters from @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Read full report: shorturl.at/EswNv
It was an amazing day with plenty of interesting talks, community building, poster sessions and a wonderful Ker Memorial Prize Lecture delivered by Prof Andy Waters from @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Read full report: shorturl.at/EswNv
Bringing together the network - Edinburgh Infectious Diseases 14th Annual Symposium
May 2025: On Friday 16 May colleagues gathered at the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh for Edinburgh Infectious Diseases' 14th Annual Symposium. It was a successful day sharing research and bu...
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May 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
🎉 Thank you to all who attended our 14th Symposium last Friday 🎉
It was an amazing day with plenty of interesting talks, community building, poster sessions and a wonderful Ker Memorial Prize Lecture delivered by Prof Andy Waters from @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Read full report: shorturl.at/EswNv
It was an amazing day with plenty of interesting talks, community building, poster sessions and a wonderful Ker Memorial Prize Lecture delivered by Prof Andy Waters from @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Read full report: shorturl.at/EswNv
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What's up, and what's down - #Darwin deconstruction of the #darwin building as seen from #Ashworthlabs #biology #kingsbuildings @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social - 11 March to 20 May 2025 🏢🏗️🧪
May 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
What's up, and what's down - #Darwin deconstruction of the #darwin building as seen from #Ashworthlabs #biology #kingsbuildings @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social - 11 March to 20 May 2025 🏢🏗️🧪
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Please consider applying for a post doc in our lab if you have bioinformatics and wet lab skills, and are interested in parasites!
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Postdoctoral Research Associate
This project will seek to understand the basis of increased virulence after long term coinfection by a combination of genomic, transcriptomic and laboratory manipulation of the selected parasite lines...
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May 16, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Please consider applying for a post doc in our lab if you have bioinformatics and wet lab skills, and are interested in parasites!
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Many congratulations to our two poster prize winners - Rose Blake @roslininstitute.bsky.social and Anneza Abid @edinburghnapier.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉 #EIDsymp25
May 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Many congratulations to our two poster prize winners - Rose Blake @roslininstitute.bsky.social and Anneza Abid @edinburghnapier.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉 #EIDsymp25
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Final presentation of the day - Ker Memorial Lecture given by Prof Andy Waters @uofglasgow.bsky.social - Malaria parasite transmission: towards the end of the beginning?
May 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Final presentation of the day - Ker Memorial Lecture given by Prof Andy Waters @uofglasgow.bsky.social - Malaria parasite transmission: towards the end of the beginning?
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Shift in gears now as Ting Shi discusses new framework protocols being developed to guide future responses to emergence of Pathogen X, and importance of robust data to inform the guidelines #EIDsymp25
May 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Shift in gears now as Ting Shi discusses new framework protocols being developed to guide future responses to emergence of Pathogen X, and importance of robust data to inform the guidelines #EIDsymp25
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And now the final session before tea - @jrossfitz.bsky.social talking about his favourite organism - S.aureus #EIDsymp25
May 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
And now the final session before tea - @jrossfitz.bsky.social talking about his favourite organism - S.aureus #EIDsymp25
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Richard Wheeler keeping us all awake in the post-lunch session with a great talk about swimming in trypanosomatid parasites #EIDsymp25
May 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Richard Wheeler keeping us all awake in the post-lunch session with a great talk about swimming in trypanosomatid parasites #EIDsymp25
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Next up is Martha Kivecu discussing the origin of Plasmodium falciparum #EIDsymp25
May 16, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Next up is Martha Kivecu discussing the origin of Plasmodium falciparum #EIDsymp25
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An absolutely fascinating set of talks from first two sessions of the @uoe-eid.bsky.social annual symposium today, from ECAs and established researchers alike. Very excited about the next set of talks post lunch!
May 16, 2025 at 11:24 AM
An absolutely fascinating set of talks from first two sessions of the @uoe-eid.bsky.social annual symposium today, from ECAs and established researchers alike. Very excited about the next set of talks post lunch!
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Pigs are a mixing vessel for influenza A - Vayalena Drampa @roslininstitute.bsky.social discussing her work to study host factors required for Influenza replication #EIDsymp25
May 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Pigs are a mixing vessel for influenza A - Vayalena Drampa @roslininstitute.bsky.social discussing her work to study host factors required for Influenza replication #EIDsymp25
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Stew Burgess from the Moredun Research Institute, talking about the impacts and treatments for sheep scab - a major disease burden for UK sheep farmers and their flocks #EIDSymp25 @moredunfoundation.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Stew Burgess from the Moredun Research Institute, talking about the impacts and treatments for sheep scab - a major disease burden for UK sheep farmers and their flocks #EIDSymp25 @moredunfoundation.bsky.social
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Really interesting to hear about Amy Sweeny’s work on the changes in microbiome communities during aging in the wild sheep population on St Kilda #EIDsymp25
May 16, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Really interesting to hear about Amy Sweeny’s work on the changes in microbiome communities during aging in the wild sheep population on St Kilda #EIDsymp25
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Now for the short talks by early career researchers - first up Josh Richards talking about study of the microbiome in the mouse population on the Isle of May #EIDsymp25
May 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Now for the short talks by early career researchers - first up Josh Richards talking about study of the microbiome in the mouse population on the Isle of May #EIDsymp25
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Really interesting work by Kalyani Sharma to develop a simple point-of-care test for urinary tract infections @bachmanntill.bsky.social @edinuni-irr.bsky.social #EIDsymp25
May 16, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Really interesting work by Kalyani Sharma to develop a simple point-of-care test for urinary tract infections @bachmanntill.bsky.social @edinuni-irr.bsky.social #EIDsymp25
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And now @Kyriaki Neophytou describing her work on pathogen signalling to host cells via small RNAs #EIDsymp25
May 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
And now @Kyriaki Neophytou describing her work on pathogen signalling to host cells via small RNAs #EIDsymp25