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Robert Dyrdak
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1/ 🚀 Exciting news: we’ve just released the first Nextclade dataset for Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68), developed in collaboration with the European Non-Polio Enterovirus Network (ENPEN).

👉🏻 Check out the dataset on Nextclade! clades.nextstrain.org?dataset-name...

#EVD68 #Enterovirus #OpenData
November 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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📢New job posting!📢
Are you excited by the idea of building global infrastructure to make pathogen sequencing more accessible, interpretable, and equitable? 🧑🏻‍💻🧬

My group at @swisstph.ch has an opening working with ARTIC2, @pathoplexus.org, & Loculus - read on!

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July 25, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Review 📺 Ocean with David Attenborough, a cry to protect our oceans

https://go.nature.com/3Scvsf4
‘Powerful and horrifying’ — David Attenborough’s latest film is a cry to protect our oceans
The seas could save us from climate change, but only if we save them first, legendary naturalist and broadcaster argues in a vivid film.
go.nature.com
May 23, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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My lab, at Karolinska, in Stockholm, is looking for a PhD student with a computational/quantitative background to work on probabilistic/generative models of proteins (structure and sequence). The research will involve methods development, and applications in vaccine design.
May 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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April 2, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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The vaccine against Shingles helps protect against dementia, results of a natural experiment, adding to prior evidence
"implications are profound"
New @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com/articles/s41...
A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia - Nature
Using a natural experiment that avoids common bias concerns, this study finds that the live-attenuated shingles vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis within a follow-up period of...
nature.com
April 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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A recent study found that cervical cancer deaths in young women have plummeted since the introduction of the human papillomavirus vaccine.
As Cervical Cancer Deaths Plummet, Experts Credit HPV Vaccine
HPV can cause a variety of cancers, including cervical. New mortality data for women under 25 point to the success of the HPV vaccine.
buff.ly
March 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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NEW 57 spike mutations SALTATION from South Africa this time it seems to be BA.3 derived
you can see all the details here
github.com/cov-lineages...
kudos to South African scientists who discovered it
BA.3 saltation with 57 spike AA mutations, South Africa · Issue #2909 · cov-lineages/pango-designation
github.com
March 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM