Garry Myers
garry-myers.bsky.social
Garry Myers
@garry-myers.bsky.social
Professor and Director, Australian Institute for Microbiology & Infection (AIMI) | https://tinyurl.com/UTSAIMI | Lead, Vaccine & RNA Design Centre | FASM | FRSB | 2024 Fulbright Distinguished Chair of Life Science and Agriculture, Kansas State University
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The authors of this piece are anti-vax ivermectin scammers who think SARS2 was a vaccine-bioweapon made via a Fauci x PLA GOFROC collab, yet they straight up copied “proximal origin” from the title of the lab leak community’s most hated paper of all time. For their own H5N1 lab leak paper. 🤣
January 28, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Regionalised vaccine manufacturing could offer a path forward for equitable vaccine access and rapid response to outbreaks.

On the cover, a new Comment explores the collaboration and action required to shift to a regionalised approach.

Read this & more: tinyurl.com/3dma8e9u
January 24, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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#IDSky #MedSky required reading:

Multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacterial infections

Nenad Macesic, Anne-Catrin Uhlemann, Anton Peleg

Review in @thelancet.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1016/S014...
January 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Introducing Nature Reviews Biodiversity! This Review explores the relationship between emerging infectious diseases and biodiversity loss, and how both are connected to global environmental changes in the Anthropocene. https://go.nature.com/42fzUQk 🧪
January 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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In the conversations on vaccine hesitancy we do not talk enough about the rising vaccine hesitancy among pet owners. This also presents important public health concerns that need to be addressed. This article clearly outlines some of the risks of this trend.
theconversation.com/vaccine-hesi...
Vaccine hesitancy among pet owners is growing – a public health expert explains why that matters
About 4% of dogs and 12% of cats remain unvaccinated against rabies, posing risks for society.
theconversation.com
January 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Whoa! When a large language of life model generates a protein equivalent to ~500 million years of evolution.
@science.org
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Simulating 500 million years of evolution with a language model
More than three billion years of evolution have produced an image of biology encoded into the space of natural proteins. Here we show that language models trained at scale on evolutionary data can gen...
science.org
January 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Published Friday, the National One Health Framework to Address Zoonotic Diseases and Advance Public Health Preparedness in the U.S.

The dominant word seems to be "coordinate", which, yeah, needed
Federal One Health Coordination
Learn about the new framework (NOHF-Zoonoses), and CDC's federal coordination to advance One Health.
www.cdc.gov
January 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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January 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Our technique for studying strain-level IgA binding in the microbiome is out now at @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social! Fascinated by IgA since Sean Spencer told me about it, here we make some fundamental discoveries about strain-level IgA dynamics in the healthy human gut (1/5) doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Metagenomic immunoglobulin sequencing reveals IgA coating of microbial strains in the healthy human gut - Nature Microbiology
Metagenomic immunoglobulin sequencing (MIg-seq) uncovered patterns of IgA antibody binding of bacterial strains in the healthy human gut microbiome.
doi.org
January 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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💥 My 2024 Mile Marker: The inside scoop on how America lost control of the Bird Flu, opening the door for another pandemic.

"We're in a terrible situation" said @angierasmussen.bsky.social

🧵Here's how we got here & how to get out @kffhealthnews.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
How America Lost Control of the Bird Flu, Setting the Stage for Another Pandemic - KFF Health News
Exclusive reporting reveals how the United States lost track of a virus that could cause the next pandemic. Problems like the sluggish pace of federal action, a deference to industry, and neglect for ...
kffhealthnews.org
December 20, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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Here is a sneak peak of the new sequencing technology I have been working on together with many others. Much more to come in 2025!

www.illumina.com/science/geno...
Introducing constellation mapped read technology
Constellation technology utilizes a highly simplified NGS workflow that enables on-flow-cell library prep that completely eliminates standard library prep prior to sequencing Standard cluster generati...
www.illumina.com
December 21, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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Our paper out today:
“Spillover is an ecological process… While the human health issues arising from spillover events…are addressed by epidemiological and biomedical countermeasures…, the ecological aspects of spillover necessitate ecological solutions”

🧪🌏

t.co/cL4qY5Pwnk
Ecological countermeasures to prevent pathogen spillover and subsequent pandemics - Nature Communications
In this Perspective, the authors discuss the importance of preventing zoonotic spillover to prevent pandemics. They highlight mechanisms by which environmental changes can enable spillover, identify e...
t.co
March 27, 2024 at 11:10 AM
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I’m pleased to share the publication of my latest first-author manuscript. I would like to thank @mehrad-hamidian.bsky.social, Eradah Abu Sabah, and @garry-myers.bsky.social—as well as our collaborators, Patrick McGann and Francois Lebreton.
@aimi-uts.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/jac/article/...
Genomic analysis of early ST32 Acinetobacter baumannii strains recovered in US military treatment facilities reveals distinct lineages and links to the origins of the Tn6168 ampC transposon
AbstractObjectives. To study the population structure and genomic characteristics, including antimicrobial resistance genes, plasmid types and surface poly
academic.oup.com
December 18, 2024 at 12:22 AM
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#vaccine #pediatrics
Today’s vaccine post will be the most famous Covid vaccine conspiracy- that they are causing a ton of cardiac deaths (TLDR, no they are not). To understand this claim requires a couple of different sources, so this will be a fairly long thread.
December 15, 2024 at 6:39 PM
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A new @science.org article from 30+ leading international scientists including several @jcvi.org researchers, examines the potential dangers of building ‘mirror life’ — organisms composed entirely of mirror-image biological molecules. 🧪
December 12, 2024 at 7:28 PM
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Wow just wow. I did not have on my bingo card an mRNA therapeutic for treating pre eclampsia. A VEGF tropic mRNA resolved maternal hypertension until pregnancy in a mouse model of the condition. Really fascinating science.
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Placenta-tropic VEGF mRNA lipid nanoparticles ameliorate murine pre-eclampsia - Nature
A platform for mRNA lipid nanoparticle delivery to the placenta to treat pre-eclampsia is shown to improve fetal and maternal health in mice and has potential clinical applications in obstetric d...
www.nature.com
December 12, 2024 at 12:52 PM
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For those wondering why we seem to be so behind when it comes to effective mucosal vaccines against respiratory viruses, this really excellent overview from leaders in the field offers a great summary:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

few additional points for those who want a bit more detail🧵:
Challenges for developing broad-based mucosal vaccines for respiratory viruses - Nature Biotechnology
Nature Biotechnology - Challenges for developing broad-based mucosal vaccines for respiratory viruses
www.nature.com
December 7, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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Resistance to one antibiotic can make bacteria resistant or sensitive to another antibiotic, opening paths for combinatorial treatments. A study in Nature Microbiology presents an approach to systematically discover and understand such antibiotic relationships. https://go.nature.com/49of3Mk 🧪
December 7, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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And this was also clear from an unpublished paper from 2018 which showed that the closest virus to SC2 at the WIV was RaTG13 (Ra4991). As this study was prior to the pandemic there was no reason to hide anything. But the progenitor of SC2 was not there because they never had it. End of.
December 6, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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Have you ever wondered how knocking out every single gene in the human genome, one by one, might affect your intracellular pathogen of interest? We did, & boy was it a wild ride! Happy to share our preprint discovering the essential host genome for Cryptosporidium -

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 6, 2024 at 1:15 PM