Marion Koopmans
@marionkoopmans.bsky.social
Virologist, into emerging viral infections, one health, climate and health. Head viroscience department ErasmusMC, Rotterdam NL. Backup for the ex-bird platform. ORCHID 0000-0002-5204-2312; https://pure.eur.nl/en/persons/marion-koopmans .
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That "explosive" nature, however, could potentially be caused - as @arambaut.bsky.social lays out - by a combination of long(ish) term cryptic transmission, linked to sexual networks / sex work, followed by more recent detection and reporting.
Again, his thread:
bsky.app/profile/aram...
Again, his thread:
bsky.app/profile/aram...
A long thread about mpox and the context specific nature of outbreaks prompted by the large outbreak of MPXV Clade IIb happening at the moment in Sierra Leone:
May 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
That "explosive" nature, however, could potentially be caused - as @arambaut.bsky.social lays out - by a combination of long(ish) term cryptic transmission, linked to sexual networks / sex work, followed by more recent detection and reporting.
Again, his thread:
bsky.app/profile/aram...
Again, his thread:
bsky.app/profile/aram...
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For recent outbreaks of Clade Ib in the DRC, similar patters have been seen, although not the same "explosive" nature we're observing in Sierra Leone.
@marionkoopmans.bsky.social's paper:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@marionkoopmans.bsky.social's paper:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Epidemiological and genomic evolution of the ongoing outbreak of clade Ib mpox virus in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo - Nature Medicine
Genomic and epidemiologic data suggest that the rapid spread of mpox clade I in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has happened mostly through sexual contact within densely populated areas.
www.nature.com
May 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
For recent outbreaks of Clade Ib in the DRC, similar patters have been seen, although not the same "explosive" nature we're observing in Sierra Leone.
@marionkoopmans.bsky.social's paper:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@marionkoopmans.bsky.social's paper:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Een belangrijk vaccin dat mensen moet beschermen bij grote uitbraak #vogelgriep staat op losse schroeven nu de VS een contract met Moderna heeft opgezegd. @marionkoopmans.bsky.social: "Dit besluit gaat ongetwijfeld gevolgen hebben voor nieuwe vaccins."
eenvandaag.avrotros.nl/artikelen/vs...
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May 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Een belangrijk vaccin dat mensen moet beschermen bij grote uitbraak #vogelgriep staat op losse schroeven nu de VS een contract met Moderna heeft opgezegd. @marionkoopmans.bsky.social: "Dit besluit gaat ongetwijfeld gevolgen hebben voor nieuwe vaccins."
eenvandaag.avrotros.nl/artikelen/vs...
eenvandaag.avrotros.nl/artikelen/vs...
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Meest terecht verdiende onderscheiding Commandeur in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau is voor @marionkoopmans.bsky.social We hebben meer helden nodig als Marion. Laat haar een voorbeeld zijn voor velen en inspiratie voor alle jonge vrouwen aan het begin van hun wetenschappelijke carrière. 🥳
June 8, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Meest terecht verdiende onderscheiding Commandeur in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau is voor @marionkoopmans.bsky.social We hebben meer helden nodig als Marion. Laat haar een voorbeeld zijn voor velen en inspiratie voor alle jonge vrouwen aan het begin van hun wetenschappelijke carrière. 🥳
x.com/drcrystalhea... Vet saying it like It is
Crystal Heath DVM on X: "This is one of the clearest, most grounded breakdowns of what’s wrong with our current bird flu response—and what actually needs to happen next in terms of vaccination and why. I would also add that we need compel producers to stop relying on heatstroke-based methods to https://t.co/PWXUNOCIsL" / X
This is one of the clearest, most grounded breakdowns of what’s wrong with our current bird flu response—and what actually needs to happen next in terms of vaccination and why. I would also add that we need compel producers to stop relying on heatstroke-based methods to https://t.co/PWXUNOCIsL
x.com
May 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
x.com/drcrystalhea... Vet saying it like It is
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It’s mad. I wrote a few thoughts about it the other day. Since then someone posted that all the grants cancelled to date are ones started under the Biden administration. If this is all some mad political tit-for-tat it’s utterly pathetic and incredibly destructive.
bsky.app/profile/notj...
bsky.app/profile/notj...
Apparently US National Institutes of Health will stop all “funding to laboratories and hospitals outside the United States”, at least temporarily 😢
It sounds like the “why should we fund them” rhetoric they’ve played in other areas, with no understanding of the benefits they get, or
It sounds like the “why should we fund them” rhetoric they’ve played in other areas, with no understanding of the benefits they get, or
Exclusive: NIH to suspend funds for research abroad as it overhauls policy
Move by US biomedical agency threatens thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.
www.nature.com
May 2, 2025 at 10:15 AM
It’s mad. I wrote a few thoughts about it the other day. Since then someone posted that all the grants cancelled to date are ones started under the Biden administration. If this is all some mad political tit-for-tat it’s utterly pathetic and incredibly destructive.
bsky.app/profile/notj...
bsky.app/profile/notj...
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Interested in SARS-CoV-2 and pandemic preparedness? Join the #covipa symposium on June 2/3 in Heidelberg/Germany, with keynotes by @marionkoopmans.bsky.social, @sanderlab.bsky.social, Florian Krammer, Gülsah Gabriel and Andreas Wack: indico.dkfz.de/event/1169/
International Symposium on Pandemic Preparedness
CoViPa – Virological and immunological determinants of COVID-19 pathogenesis - lessons to get prepared for future pandemics: The research network CoViPa, funded by the Helmholtz Association, is dedica...
indico.dkfz.de
May 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Interested in SARS-CoV-2 and pandemic preparedness? Join the #covipa symposium on June 2/3 in Heidelberg/Germany, with keynotes by @marionkoopmans.bsky.social, @sanderlab.bsky.social, Florian Krammer, Gülsah Gabriel and Andreas Wack: indico.dkfz.de/event/1169/
www.nature.com/articles/d41... what we dreaded happened
Exclusive: NIH to end billions of dollars in foreign research grants
Move by US biomedical agency jeopardizes thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.
www.nature.com
May 2, 2025 at 6:31 AM
www.nature.com/articles/d41... what we dreaded happened
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Voor welke dilemma’s komen wetenschappers te staan nu de VS de aanval opent op academische vrijheid? Op 20 mei organiseren de KNAW en @debalie.bsky.social een debatavond, met o.a. @marionkoopmans.bsky.social. Meer info en tickets: bit.ly/3YOXl0j
#academischevrijheid #wetenschap #maandvandevrijheid
#academischevrijheid #wetenschap #maandvandevrijheid
April 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Voor welke dilemma’s komen wetenschappers te staan nu de VS de aanval opent op academische vrijheid? Op 20 mei organiseren de KNAW en @debalie.bsky.social een debatavond, met o.a. @marionkoopmans.bsky.social. Meer info en tickets: bit.ly/3YOXl0j
#academischevrijheid #wetenschap #maandvandevrijheid
#academischevrijheid #wetenschap #maandvandevrijheid
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April 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Viroloog Marion Koopmans (Erasmus MC) is gekozen als lid van de National Academy of Sciences. Haar onderzoek richt zich op opkomende infecties met speciale nadruk op het ontrafelen van routes bij het ontstaan en de verspreiding van ziekten op het grensvlak tussen mens en dier.
April 21, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Viroloog Marion Koopmans (Erasmus MC) is gekozen als lid van de National Academy of Sciences. Haar onderzoek richt zich op opkomende infecties met speciale nadruk op het ontrafelen van routes bij het ontstaan en de verspreiding van ziekten op het grensvlak tussen mens en dier.
April 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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As I understand this, these are contextual analysis with general llm's and not specifically trained llm's on a certain topic. General llm's are worse at this.
Diagnostics is done with specifically trained deterministic Ai what is really different from generative Ai.
Thanks for sharing.
Diagnostics is done with specifically trained deterministic Ai what is really different from generative Ai.
Thanks for sharing.
April 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
As I understand this, these are contextual analysis with general llm's and not specifically trained llm's on a certain topic. General llm's are worse at this.
Diagnostics is done with specifically trained deterministic Ai what is really different from generative Ai.
Thanks for sharing.
Diagnostics is done with specifically trained deterministic Ai what is really different from generative Ai.
Thanks for sharing.
See lots of enthusiasm about generative AI in different areas of medicine. This systematic review shows that optimism is not supported by current evidence, except in urology and dermatology. From promise to validation as a valley of death www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A systematic review and meta-analysis of diagnostic performance comparison between generative AI and physicians - npj Digital Medicine
npj Digital Medicine - A systematic review and meta-analysis of diagnostic performance comparison between generative AI and physicians
www.nature.com
April 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
See lots of enthusiasm about generative AI in different areas of medicine. This systematic review shows that optimism is not supported by current evidence, except in urology and dermatology. From promise to validation as a valley of death www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Paper by Phd student Kesha Kroh under guidance of @CarmenEmbregts and @Corine_GvK studying fundamental aspects of infection with different rabies viruses. Rabies is 100% lethal, and understanding why there is no effective host response is crucial pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40208887/
A comparative analysis of the dendritic cell response upon exposure to different rabies virus strains - PubMed
Rabies is a viral zoonotic disease that causes over 60,000 human deaths annually worldwide. Natural infections lack a virus-specific immune response, leading to a near 100% fatality rate unless immedi...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
April 19, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Paper by Phd student Kesha Kroh under guidance of @CarmenEmbregts and @Corine_GvK studying fundamental aspects of infection with different rabies viruses. Rabies is 100% lethal, and understanding why there is no effective host response is crucial pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40208887/
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The Wuhan CDC has nothing to do with the origin of COVID-19. Virus genetic engineering and culturing was not their trade (samples were sent to Beijing/Shanghai). They did not have collection of bat viruses from Yunnan. I was told that staff at WCDC did not hear about the outbreak until late Dec.
A heavily redacted Jan 2023 assessment by the US National Intelligence Council was just made public via FOIA.
It contains the confirmation that, while leaning lab leak, the Department of Energy was not considering the Wuhan Institute of Virology as the source.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
It contains the confirmation that, while leaning lab leak, the Department of Energy was not considering the Wuhan Institute of Virology as the source.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
April 16, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The Wuhan CDC has nothing to do with the origin of COVID-19. Virus genetic engineering and culturing was not their trade (samples were sent to Beijing/Shanghai). They did not have collection of bat viruses from Yunnan. I was told that staff at WCDC did not hear about the outbreak until late Dec.
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👏🏽Congratulations to Prof. @marionkoopmans.bsky.social for receiving the ESCMID Award for Outstanding Contributions in the Field of Infection!
We’re proud to celebrate Professor Koopmans, a key member of the Ecraid Coordinating Committee, for receiving this award! Read more: bit.ly/AwardESCMID
We’re proud to celebrate Professor Koopmans, a key member of the Ecraid Coordinating Committee, for receiving this award! Read more: bit.ly/AwardESCMID
April 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
👏🏽Congratulations to Prof. @marionkoopmans.bsky.social for receiving the ESCMID Award for Outstanding Contributions in the Field of Infection!
We’re proud to celebrate Professor Koopmans, a key member of the Ecraid Coordinating Committee, for receiving this award! Read more: bit.ly/AwardESCMID
We’re proud to celebrate Professor Koopmans, a key member of the Ecraid Coordinating Committee, for receiving this award! Read more: bit.ly/AwardESCMID
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We a looking for a Postdoc!
Interested in virology, stem-cell derived models, glycans?
Apply before 29th of October!
@thijskuiken.bsky.social @lisabauervirus.bsky.social @marionkoopmans.bsky.social @rpdevrieslab.bsky.social
www.werkenbijerasmusmc.nl/en/vacancy/1...
Interested in virology, stem-cell derived models, glycans?
Apply before 29th of October!
@thijskuiken.bsky.social @lisabauervirus.bsky.social @marionkoopmans.bsky.social @rpdevrieslab.bsky.social
www.werkenbijerasmusmc.nl/en/vacancy/1...
Vacature: Postdoc Virology
The department of Viroscience at the Erasmus MC and the department of Chemical Biology & Drug discovery at Utrecht University have joined forces to identify functional glycan receptors for influenza A...
www.werkenbijerasmusmc.nl
April 17, 2025 at 10:52 AM
We a looking for a Postdoc!
Interested in virology, stem-cell derived models, glycans?
Apply before 29th of October!
@thijskuiken.bsky.social @lisabauervirus.bsky.social @marionkoopmans.bsky.social @rpdevrieslab.bsky.social
www.werkenbijerasmusmc.nl/en/vacancy/1...
Interested in virology, stem-cell derived models, glycans?
Apply before 29th of October!
@thijskuiken.bsky.social @lisabauervirus.bsky.social @marionkoopmans.bsky.social @rpdevrieslab.bsky.social
www.werkenbijerasmusmc.nl/en/vacancy/1...
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Listening to @marionkoopmans.bsky.social giving the ESCMID excellence award lecture “Towards pandemic prevention, moonshot or utopia?” at #ESCMIDGlobal
@escmid.bsky.social
@escmid.bsky.social
April 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Listening to @marionkoopmans.bsky.social giving the ESCMID excellence award lecture “Towards pandemic prevention, moonshot or utopia?” at #ESCMIDGlobal
@escmid.bsky.social
@escmid.bsky.social
Incredible treat when traveling back from Vienna. The flight crew @KLM thanked me and invited me into the cockpit for landing. With clear skies, the impressive dashboards and nice conversations, we descended into Amsterdam. What a treat! Thanks team, this was very special
April 15, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Incredible treat when traveling back from Vienna. The flight crew @KLM thanked me and invited me into the cockpit for landing. With clear skies, the impressive dashboards and nice conversations, we descended into Amsterdam. What a treat! Thanks team, this was very special
scheduled to give a talk at the European Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases conference about addressing anti-science in our community. Looking for examples, experiences. suggestions?
April 11, 2025 at 5:54 PM
scheduled to give a talk at the European Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases conference about addressing anti-science in our community. Looking for examples, experiences. suggestions?
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@rpdevrieslab.bsky.social @debbyvanriel.bsky.social @marionkoopmans.bsky.social
Please help us sharing!
Please help us sharing!
April 9, 2025 at 7:06 AM
@rpdevrieslab.bsky.social @debbyvanriel.bsky.social @marionkoopmans.bsky.social
Please help us sharing!
Please help us sharing!
and another vacancy in our department! Great project, in dynamic team
Join us! We are looking for a highly motivated PhD Student to join our teams and investigate glycan-virus interaction at @erasmusmc.bsky.social
🍬Glycans
🦠Viruses
🫁🧠Organoids
🧬 Genetic Engineering
Apply here 👇
www.werkenbijerasmusmc.nl/en/vacancy/1...
🍬Glycans
🦠Viruses
🫁🧠Organoids
🧬 Genetic Engineering
Apply here 👇
www.werkenbijerasmusmc.nl/en/vacancy/1...
Vacature: PhD position Virology
The department of Viroscience at the Erasmus MC and the department of Chemical Biology & Drug discovery at Utrecht University have joined forces to identify functional glycan receptors for influenza A...
www.werkenbijerasmusmc.nl
April 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
and another vacancy in our department! Great project, in dynamic team