Got a great idea for a metagenomic virus discovery project but not sure what to do next? We are running a 5 day hands on workshop in beautiful Stellenbosch, South Africa with experts from around the world. Applications are open until 31st July. climade.health/2025/06/22/m...

Interested in metagenomic virus discovery but don't know where to start? In collaboration with CERI and a group of virus discovery experts from around the world, we'll be running a 5 day hands-on workshop in virus discovery.
Find out more here: climade.health/2025/06/22/m...

After just short of nine years in the Holmes group, it’s come time for me to move on and stop spending Eddie’s money. I’ve had an incredible time working with everything from Antarctic ticks to Brazilian bird poo. But I’m excited to be starting a Humboldt fellowship and joining FLI in Germany

We love hearing about weird viruses with @marypetrone.bsky.social to wake us up for the last day of #AVS

A great intro to our work on a crazy Tassie devil virus from @julienmelade.bsky.social in the #AVS science bites session. Find out more at poster 102 this evening

A fantastic talk on RNA virus diversity in Australian soil from our dirt queen and master of giant trees @royalfizzbin.bsky.social #AVS

@julienmelade.bsky.social and I are so excited to present our work on Tassie devil viruses at AVS this week that we went and found one

We saw a record number of young goannas out at the farm near Mudgee this year. We guess this is a result of the mouse plague a few years ago? We always had a few old adults that would come to see what we were up to but this year we had 6-7 young fellas. Some were pretty aggressive too

Holmes lab second annual(?) writing retreat kicking off with gorgeous weather in the central coast. Thanks to the boss man. I promise we’ll be smashing out papers after this 👩‍💻