Peter Simmonds
@psimmond.bsky.social
Virologist, interested in virus evolution and innate immunity (and how they are linked). A member of the ICTV and striving to bring greater virus community engagement and understanding of virus taxonomy.
https://www.utu.fi/en/people/peter-simmonds
https://www.utu.fi/en/people/peter-simmonds
Very excited to let you know about the ICTV's new publication format for taxonomic changes and developments. These are summaries of all of the ratified changes in virus classification in the previous year summarised in this overview article:
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Virus taxonomy proposal summaries: a searchable and citable resource to disseminate virus taxonomy advances
Taxonomic classification of cellular organisms requires the publication of descriptions and proposed names of species and the deposition of specimens. Virus taxonomy is developed through a different s...
www.microbiologyresearch.org
August 15, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Very excited to let you know about the ICTV's new publication format for taxonomic changes and developments. These are summaries of all of the ratified changes in virus classification in the previous year summarised in this overview article:
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Reposted by Peter Simmonds
The promised ICTV paper on species names and how they differ from virus names is now published in mSphere:
“Virus species names have been standardized; virus names remain unchanged”
doi.org/10.1128/msph...
“Virus species names have been standardized; virus names remain unchanged”
doi.org/10.1128/msph...
Virus species names have been standardized; virus names remain unchanged | mSphere
The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV; https://ictv.global/) is a committee of the Virology Division of the International Union of Microbiology
Societies that provides oversight and...
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April 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The promised ICTV paper on species names and how they differ from virus names is now published in mSphere:
“Virus species names have been standardized; virus names remain unchanged”
doi.org/10.1128/msph...
“Virus species names have been standardized; virus names remain unchanged”
doi.org/10.1128/msph...
Extraordinary and terrible, an eye opening summary of what's currently going on in US science by Paul Bieniasz:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We are witnessing the destruction of science in America | Paul Darren Bieniasz
If we stay on this administration’s course, future life-saving medicines may never be invented
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Extraordinary and terrible, an eye opening summary of what's currently going on in US science by Paul Bieniasz:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reposted by Peter Simmonds
Join us for an ICTV webinar on how to find information about viruses and virus taxa using the ICTV web site
Date: March 11, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM CDT; 15:00 UTC
For more information: ictv.global/news/webinar...
Register here: uab.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Date: March 11, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM CDT; 15:00 UTC
For more information: ictv.global/news/webinar...
Register here: uab.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
February 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Join us for an ICTV webinar on how to find information about viruses and virus taxa using the ICTV web site
Date: March 11, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM CDT; 15:00 UTC
For more information: ictv.global/news/webinar...
Register here: uab.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Date: March 11, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM CDT; 15:00 UTC
For more information: ictv.global/news/webinar...
Register here: uab.zoom.us/webinar/regi...