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MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis @mrc-outbreak.bsky.social · Dec 11
NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! This week Dr @eonore.bsky.social speaks with Dr Darlan Candido about historical transmission of poliovirus, immunity, cross border transmission and data availability👇
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Find out more about historical and current spatiotemporal patterns of wild and vaccine-derived poliovirus spread in this Nature Microbiology paper 👇
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Historical and current spatiotemporal patterns of wild and vaccine-derived poliovirus spread - Nature Microbiology
Vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 currently spreads similarly to historical poliovirus—unidirectionally across neighbouring countries at a median velocity of 2.3 km per day. International borders are ...
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December 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! This week Dr @eonore.bsky.social speaks with Dr Darlan Candido about historical transmission of poliovirus, immunity, cross border transmission and data availability👇
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December 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Find out more about robust phylodynamic inference and model specification for HIV transmission dynamics in this Elsevier Epidemics publication 👇
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December 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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It is #WorldAIDSDay! For this special #ScienceInContext Dr Fabricia Nascimento & Prof Sanjay Mehta join @eonore.bsky.social to speak about phylodynamic inference, HIV transmission, migration, genome sequencing & ethics
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December 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Find out more & visit the CABBAGE platform 👇
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Antimicrobial resistance portal
Query, filter and download experimental AMR records and in silico predicitions of antimicrobial resistance
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November 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! It is World Antimicrobial Resistance #AMR Week. @eonore.bsky.social speaks with Dr Emily Dickens about CABBAGE, a new portal for comprehensive, global, curated AMR data for @who.int priority pathogens👇
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November 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Surveillance getting GNASTy! Improving our ability to detect variants that haven’t been seen before! Optimizing nanopore adaptive sampling for pneumo surveillance in @genomeresearch.bsky.social 👇 doi.org/10.1101/gr.2... @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @rebecca-and.bsky.social @ebi.embl.org
Optimizing nanopore adaptive sampling for pneumococcal serotype surveillance in complex samples using the graph-based GNASTy algorithm
An international, peer-reviewed genome sciences journal featuring outstanding original research that offers novel insights into the biology of all organisms
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November 19, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! @eonore.bsky.social joined by Dr Samuel Horsfield on diagnostic & surveillance methods & GNASTy improving our ability to detect variants that haven’t been seen before👇
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November 19, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Read the full publication by Nic Steyn & @krisparag.bsky.social on the robust uncertainty quantification in popular estimators of the instantaneous reproduction number in the @amjepi.bsky.social👇
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November 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! This week, Dr @eonore.bsky.social speaks with Dr @krisparag.bsky.social about methods to estimate the instantaneous reproduction number and approaches to estimate uncertainty 👇
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November 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Find out more about the @PacciProgramme 👇
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November 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext this week @eonore.bsky.social speaks with Dr Romain Silhol, Dr Serge Niangoran and Kelly McCain to speak about a modelling workshop on HIV, HPV & cervical cancer in Côte d'Ivoire👇
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November 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Find out more about this global initiative & insights from the team aiming to better understand dengue & Zika transmission, characterise arbovirus genetic diversity to inform public health strategies 👇
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International collaborative effort to understand dengue and Zika | Imperial News | Imperial College London
An international team launched the DeZi network to understand how the viruses spread, interact, and cause disease across Africa and Asia.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Today we're kickstarting the Dengue & Zika Immunology & Genomics Multi-Country (DeZi) Network funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social with contributions from @temasek.bsky.social @neasg.bsky.social #UNITEDengue
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International collaborative effort to understand dengue and Zika | Imperial News | Imperial College London
An international team launched the DeZi network to understand how the viruses spread, interact, and cause disease across Africa and Asia.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! This week @eonore.bsky.social speaks with @chownbioinf.bsky.social about fungal disease, Aspergillus fumigatus and interactions with the soil it lives in. Harry shares his passions and insights from his work - one to watch 👇
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Ep 134 Science in Context Fungal disease with Dr Harry Chown
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October 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Read the full paper published in @thelancet.com HIV on the probability of vertical HIV transmission: a systematic review and meta-regression, here 👇
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October 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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NEW EPISODE #ScienceinContext! This week, @eonore.bsky.social is joined by @mkwalters3.bsky.social to speak about HIV, vertical transmission, the impact of starting ART before & during pregnancy, and the importance of testing & treatment throughout pregnancy and breastfeeding 👇
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October 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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NEW PUBLICATION! Read this full paper published today in @natureportfolio.nature.com Medicine on global risk of selection and spread of Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein 2 and 3 gene deletions👇

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Global risk of selection and spread of Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein 2 and 3 gene deletions - Nature Medicine
A modeling approach to assess the global risk of Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein 2 and 3 gene deletions identifies ten priority African countries for surveillance and could inform malaria control policies.
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October 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! @eonore.bsky.social is joined by @ojwatson.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social to speak about the spread of hrp2/3 deletions, collaboration with the @who.int & what this research means for malaria control within the current funding climate👇
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October 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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NEW PUBLICATION! Check out this work in Nature Portfolio Communications quantifying the impact of a broadly protective sarbecovirus vaccine in a future SARS-X pandemic 👇
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Quantifying the impact of a broadly protective sarbecovirus vaccine in a future SARS-X pandemic - Nature Communications
Broad-spectrum vaccines have been proposed as a tool for rapid response to emerging infectious disease threats and are in pre-clinical development. Here, the authors use mathematical modelling to assess the potential impacts of broadly protective sarbecovirus vaccines for a hypothetical “SARS-X” outbreak.
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October 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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NEW PUBLICATION! Check out this work in Nature Portfolio Communications quantifying the impact of a broadly protective sarbecovirus vaccine in a future SARS-X pandemic 👇
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Quantifying the impact of a broadly protective sarbecovirus vaccine in a future SARS-X pandemic - Nature Communications
Broad-spectrum vaccines have been proposed as a tool for rapid response to emerging infectious disease threats and are in pre-clinical development. Here, the authors use mathematical modelling to assess the potential impacts of broadly protective sarbecovirus vaccines for a hypothetical “SARS-X” outbreak.
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October 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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CONGRATULATIONS! We celebrate the successful viva of Janetta Skarp who focussed on the gaps in knowledge regarding the quality of countries' outbreak response & the costs of outbreak response measures, & how these gaps could be addressed
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October 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Check out this publication @natureportfolio.nature.com Communications on modelling the transmission of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in camel populations and the potential impact of animal vaccination👇 doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Modelling transmission of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in camel populations and the potential impact of animal vaccination - Nature Communications
Outbreaks of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in humans are driven by spillover from camels, and vaccines for camels are in development. Here, the authors use mathematical modelling to explore transmission dynamics in camels and investigate potential impacts of vaccines.
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September 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! This week @eonore.bsky.social speaks with @amydighe.bsky.social about MERS-CoV in camels, vaccination strategies & how this can help prevent MERS-CoV in humans 👇
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September 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Interested in Climate Amplified Diseases and Epidemics (CLIMADE)? Find out how this consortium predicts, tracks and controls diseases and epidemics in the most affected countries in the world 👇
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Climade – Climate Amplified Diseases and Epidemics
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September 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM