Robert Dyrdak

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

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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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‘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.

Review 📺 Ocean with David Attenborough, a cry to protect our oceans

https://go.nature.com/3Scvsf4

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.

Congratulations to a decade filled with impressive accomplishments! 🥳🎉

Just out "Making sense of the virome in light of evolution and ecology" doi.org/10.1098/rspb... from super ⭐ team @meganawallace.bsky.social @duckswabber.bsky.social @jemmageoghegan.bsky.social @ryanmimrie.bsky.social @eddieholmes.bsky.social @xavh.bsky.social in Proc B @royalsocietypublishing.org

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...

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...

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.

A recent study found that cervical cancer deaths in young women have plummeted since the introduction of the human papillomavirus vaccine.

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

Very cool and well deserved! 💫👏

Similar trend in Sweden, XEC accounting for about 35% but no major increase in cases during transition from KP.3.1.1
www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/folkhalsorap...

Congratulations! 🎉