Are bats tolerant of all viruses? With a comparative -omics approach, we show that Egyptian fruit bat cells show both antiviral and pro-inflammatory immune responses to infection with Zika virus while our Jamaican fruit bat cells are not susceptible.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our study highlights geographic hotspots correlating with areas of diminished smallpox vaccination coverage and heightened zoonotic outbreak risks.

@viralemergence.org, led by PhD student Katie Tseng with @danjbecker.bsky.social, @colincarlson.bsky.social @roryjgibb.bsky.social and Pilar Fernandez

🚨Excited to share our latest research published in @commsbio.bsky.social , where we've developed a predictive model that integrates both host ecological traits and viral genomic features to identify potential reservoir hosts for Orthopoxviruses, including mpox virus.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

New preprint up! Really happy to have this study come together. We delve into predicting reservoirs of orthopoxviruses, including mpox virus, using ML models that integrate ecology and viral genomics 🦠🧬🐭
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...