New preprint alert! 📣

We use Logan, a new database of SRA-wide genome assemblies, to look for an emerging virus in prawns. If you've ever spent too long trying to track down a known sequence in SRA data, this database is a real game changer.

lnkd.in/e9S5GhPc

New preprint alert! 📣

We use Logan, a new database of SRA-wide genome assemblies, to look for an emerging virus in prawns. If you've ever spent too long trying to track down a known sequence in SRA data, this database is a real game changer.

lnkd.in/e9S5GhPc

I am incredibly honoured to have received the Mauro E. Martignoni Award from the Society for Invertebrate Pathology for my work describing a novel iridovirus, voted for unanimously by the committee

A fun week in Puerto Varas, Chile taking in the breathtaking Andes scenery and talking about viruses!

📢 New preprint describing a novel iridovirus infecting cockles!

For the first time, we provide the full genome for a bivalve-infecting iridovirus and characterise it infecting the haemocytes of moribund cockles in the UK.

Follow the link below to find out more ⬇️

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Last week I was at the HM Treasury funded Shared Outcomes Fund, Coastal Health, Livelihoods and Environment programme symposium.

It was exciting to see how our cockle pathogen work fits into the wider aims of the programme to improve our understanding of the health of coastal ecosystems 🌊🐚

We are excited to announce that we will be running the Genomics of Fish Pathogens Workshop at the 22nd European Association of Fish Pathologist (EAFP) Conference in Heraklion 2025! 🧬🐟🦪

Details of costs and how to sign up are linked below ⬇
eafp2025.org/bioinformati...

We are excited to announce that we will be running the Genomics of Fish Pathogens Workshop at the 22nd European Association of Fish Pathologist (EAFP) Conference in Heraklion 2025! 🧬🐟🦪

Details of costs and how to sign up are linked below ⬇
eafp2025.org/bioinformati...

Are you interested in bivalves and/or emerging pathogens? If you are, Anna Tidy's 1st first author paper is now available to read as a preprint! 🎉

The paper describes a novel genotype of Marteilia cocosarum infecting cockles in The Wash estuary, UK.

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Last week I was at Cefas’s PhD Student Conference presenting some of the work from my PhD and was humbled to win best presentation in my session and best overall presentation! A huge thanks to Daniel Zeichner MP for taking time out of a busy schedule to present the prizes!

We had a great turnout for the European Association of Fish Pathologists (EAFP) fish pathogen genomics workshop earlier this week! The participants went from command line basics to identifying and characterising a bacterial species causing disease in fish from a whole genome sequencing dataset.