@PostdocPat

*now AssProfPat - Virologist at the University of Nottingham. Interested in detecting and sequencing viruses known and unknown in people and animals.

 Nottingham, England
tinyurl.com/Postdocpat
Joined November 2018
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Neil Oldfield@NjOldfield27 Aug 2024
Students urged to top up vaccines before term time bbc.com/news/articles/cx2n3l…

Students urged to top up vaccines before term time

Students should be vaccinated against meningitis, HPV and measles, a health authority says.

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Dr Emma Hodcroft@firefoxx6627 Aug 2024
One of the reasons I've been quiet on Twitter for a few months is because I've been working on something big - something I'm really happy to share now! Pathoplexus.org A new, open-source database for pathogen sequence sharing. 👐🧬🌎 1/12

Pathoplexus | Home

Pathoplexus is a new, open-source database dedicated to the efficient sharing of human viral pathogen genomic data, fostering global collaboration and public health response.

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Identification of a potential genotype 9 of HCV (but need more sequences!). This one from patient in Guyana academic.oup.com/jid/advance…

Identification of 2 Novel Subtypes of Hepatitis C Virus Genotype 8 and a Potential New Genotype...

Two new hepatitis C virus (HCV) subtypes belonging to genotype 8 and a potentially new genotype may be circulating in low- and middle-income countries. Mor

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Matt Loose@mattloose7 May 2024
We are holding an event on Thu 27 Jun 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM: CNS Rapid Diagnostics Information Day - this will cover our research only use of @nanopore in looking at tumours. The meeting is in person and requires registration, but is free to attend. tickettailor.com/events/cnst…
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Just one week left to apply for the “OneZoo” PhD programme on understanding the role of the environment in zoonoses onezoo.uk (some virus-y ones involving myself there too if interested)
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Rachael Tarlinton@RTarlinton22 Jan 2024
One week to go before this closes @OneVirology . Note official applications have to be made via the university jobs portal (not direct to academics) though we are of course happy to be contacted and talk about what we are looking for jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacanc…

Jobs at the University of Nottingham

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Michael Baym@baym19 Jan 2024
If there was only one scientific practice I could teach to every scientist regardless of stage or field I think it would be: look at the data. Spot check it. Find a few data points and trace them through to see if they make sense. Look at the raw data. Don't just do analyses.
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***Top of the Christmas Snots*** Which respiratory virus will claim the coveted Christmas 2023 number one slot for England?! A seasonal thread of UKHSA data!
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UK detects its first human case of swine flu strain | Swine flu | The Guardian (another reason why surveillance of viruses of animals and humans is so important!) theguardian.com/world/2023/n…
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Jonathan Ball@JonathanKBall27 Nov 2023
Please keep the #SwineFlu UK case in perspective. It isn't yet a pandemic. And if it had the potential to be so, most people would have cross-reactive immunity from the #H1 strains they have probably already seen.
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One Virology@OneVirology23 Nov 2023
Nottingham BBSRC DTP recruitment pages are live! nottingham.ac.uk/bbdtp/our-r… Members of @OneVirology are primary and co-supervisors of several listed projects across the themes of Agriculture and Food Security, Bioscience for Health and Biotechnology.
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Lots of COVID hindsight going around today. I checked back, and I didn't bother asking my Virology WhatsApp (support) group about it till January 8th. Retrospective testing in Nottingham found cases going back to 21st Feb that were missed. microbiologyresearch.org/con…

Retrospective screening of routine respiratory samples revealed undetected community transmission...

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Charles Chiu
@cychiu984 Aug 2023
A single read that prompted a nationwide CDC investigation! Please read about another win for CSF mNGS at UCSF. @UCSFHospitals @UCSFPrecision @UCSF_Catalyst @Chiulab_UCSF @dmaccannell @Bob_Wachter thelancet.com/journals/lanmi…

Transmission of yellow fever vaccine virus through blood transfusion and organ transplantation in...

This investigation substantiates the use of metagenomic next-generation sequencing for the broad-based detection of rare or unexpected pathogens. Health-care workers providing vaccinations should...

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Dr. T@GertrudRey3 Aug 2023
Have you ever wondered why some #viruses circulate primarily in the winter and others are more prevalent in the summer? Although we don’t have a clear answer to this question, a combination of factors is likely responsible. A 🧵, also at virology blog. 1/
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ProMED@ProMED_mail1 Jun 2023
PRO/EDR> Echovirus 11 - France: severe neonatal infection promedmail.org/promed-post/?…
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New Research: Case report: Clearance of longstanding, immune-deficiency-associated, vaccine-derived polio virus infection following remdesivir therapy for chronic SARS-CoV-2 infection: The global polio eradication campaign has had remarkable… frontiersin.org/articles/10.… #immunology
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Jonathan Ball@JonathanKBall4 May 2023
#Postdoc interested in doing research exploring the link between #viruses and #MultipleSclerosis, then this project between @unibirmingham and @UniofNottingham @wolfsonvirology might be one for you... jobs.ac.uk/job/CZL535/resear…
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This Gisaid story is absolutely wild and well worth a read! The virology community*really* needs to make submission to ENA and/or Genbank as easy as to Gisaid.
Martin Enserink@martinenserink19 Apr 2023
My colleague @sciencecohen and I spent months investigating @GISAID and the mysterious man behind it, Peter Bogner. Here's what we found. science.org/content/article/…

The ‘invented persona’ behind a key pandemic database

GISAID offers a safe space to post viral genomes. Peter Bogner, its perplexing creator and overseer, may be jeopardizing its future

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biohub
@biohub4 Apr 2023
Looking for a point + click platform for analyzing sequencing data? CZ ID now supports metagenomic analysis with @nanopore ✳️ Upload Nanopore sequencing data ✳️ No coding required ✳️ Interactive reports ✳️ Download reports Learn more about the pipeline bit.ly/42TCIQX

Chan Zuckerberg ID: The free, cloud-based metagenomics platform

Real-time pathogen detection, microbiome characterization and outbreak detection for researchers

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Emma Thomson@emcat130 Mar 2023
Our investigation into the aetiology of unexplained acute hepatitis in Scottish children is now online nature.com/articles/s41586-0…. We released the early data within the UK HSA technical reports on the 6th May 2022 gov.uk/government/publicatio… and as a preprint during the outbreak. 1/11

Adeno-associated virus 2 infection in children with non-A–E hepatitis

Nature - A case–control study investigating the causes of recent cases of acute hepatitis of unknown aetiology in 32 children identifies an association between adeno-associated virus...

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Emma Thomson@emcat125 Jul 2022
Our @CVRinfo investigation into the Scottish outbreak of unexplained hepatitis in children is now online as a preprint medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…. In this study, we used metagenomic and semi-agnostic target enrichment next generation sequencing to identify viruses in affected cases.

Adeno-associated virus 2 infection in children with non-A-E hepatitis

An outbreak of acute hepatitis of unknown aetiology in children was first reported in Scotland in April 2022.[1][1] Cases aged <16 years have since been identified in 35 countries.[2][2] Here we...

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