At the 8th Nordic Conference of Antiviral Treatments Strategies and Drug Resistance at the beautiful Norrlands Nation in Uppsala, arranged by my co-supervisor Johan Lennerstrand 🧪 #Science #Antivirals #HIV #SARSCoV2 #Hepatitis #Virology

Whole genome sequencing allows tracking mutations and how their abundance changes over time. These are important, they are responsible for how the virus spreads, for how the virus evades the immune system, and are also responsible for causing resistance against drugs.
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This has helped us track which variants of the virus are present in the population at different times. Waves of different variants come and go, spreading from one continent to the next.
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In a collaboration between Region Uppsala, Region Dalarna and Region Örebro we nanopore sequenced SARS-CoV-2 to track resistance mutations affecting monoclonal antibodies pemivibart and sipavibart #COVID19 treatments.
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Been a while since I used adaptive sampling, and first time since some new upgrades were listed in the MinKnow update notes. Looking forward to analysing the results. 🧪 #Nanopore #Sequencing #Microbiology

Used DALL-E through #ChatGPT to generate a very specific clipart for a presentation in a course I'm taking. Just needed a few small manual edits in paint. net and then it was ready. Very handy. #AIart

This figure shows the mutations we found in the receptor binding domain of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. As well as how their relative abundance changed over time.

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Dropping my entire Zotero library into VOSviewer turns out to be a fun way of showing my science interests and how various research topics and previous student projects are connected.