A novel member of Hantaviridae in prairie voles, USA; Ortohantavirus sagercreekense as also recently recognized by ICTV. For the discovery and characterization of SACRV : www.nature.com/articles/s44...
@emerginginfections.bsky.social

Please note the very viral XI European Meeting on Viral Zoonoses in 20-23 September in St.Raphaël, France: early bird registration (and abstract deadline) extended to 26 May.
www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...

Our EU-funded project REFINE has finally kicked off! Super proud to be part of this inspiring initiative with great scientists from across Europe and Australia. We aim to address the escalating challenge of mosquito-borne orthoflavivirus infections.
www.refine-project.org/news/refine-...
#EU #HADEA

Wendy Barclay and I are recruiting a postdoc for a project investigating the evolution of swine influenza viruses and how this impacts future pandemic potential.

Job is based at Imperial's South Kensington campus. Drop me a DM/email for more details.
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

New preprint out now! The history of some RNA virus lineages that infect vertebrates might date back to our invertebrate ancestors.

Read more here: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

primalscheme3 is now live at primalscheme.com!

Key features
- Handle up to 20% target diversity
- Create panels for multiple targets
- Improved multiplexing, allowing 10x more primer per reaction

Preprint to follow

If you do dengue virus sequencing +/- phylogenetic analysis, check out our new system for classifying lineages.

Led by Verity Hill, this was a large collaborative effort by dengue researchers from 14 countries.

Paper -> journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Website-> dengue-lineages.org

Can colleagues amplify this appeal to journals and journal editors to open accounts on Bluesky, please? @MicrobioSoc @TrendsMicrobiol @CellCellPress @JBacteriology @jbiolchem @Nature @ScienceMagazine @PNASNews @MolMicroEditors @NAR_Open @NatureMicrobiol @NatureComms @ASMicrobiology 🙏
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