what can be better than global RNA virome and Dolja?
Nothing for me.. :)
Join RNA virus club (by @rdrpsummit.bsky.social ) already tomorrow:
Thu, Feb 12, 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US 🇺🇸, Canada🇨🇦)
(or 7pm London time 🇬🇧)
for an hour with one and only Prof. Valerian Dolja (Oregon State University)
Also, I hope that this newfound love for hispanics that a lot of the scientific community seem to have developed results in more collaboration with scientists in LATAM and higher research activity there, on an equal, decolonized way.
Good thing is that pro american football is less boring than its college version.
I’d rather watch a real football match between Iran and New Caledonia tho, but go hawks
Where’s himym now? I started watching it again for the 6th time and they removed it from Netflix
🚨New paper 🚨
Can protein language models help us fight viral outbreaks? Not yet. Here’s why 🧵👇
1/12
Our paper on the Genomic Epidemiology of DENV2/3 in Colombia and the Americas is finally out @cp-cellreports.bsky.social, check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Big thanks to my collaborators @lambod50.bsky.social, @viralverity.bsky.social, @nathangrubaugh.bsky.social, and many others!
Phold's manuscript is now available @narjournal.bsky.social thanks to @susiegriggo.bsky.social @npbhavya.bsky.social @vijinim.bsky.social @linsalrob.bsky.social @martinsteinegger.bsky.social @milot.bsky.social @eunbelivable.bsky.social & others not on bsky #phagesky academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
Merry Christmas! ✝️❤️🎄
Variations in annual dengue intensities are explained by temperature anomalies
Our new work led by Abbey Porzucek, @rafalpx.bsky.social, @colincarlson.bsky.social, Dan Weinberger to develop a method to compare relative dengue intensity between years and countries.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
That’s so cool!
Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetics under the Infinite Sites Model https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41292938/
Well deserved, congrats Spyros!
Way to go @lambod50.bsky.social !
Had a flashback from my variant spotter days😌
x.com/RicardoRH_ID...
I’m a third-gen Red Sox fan, but seeing my little town full of people wearing Mariners hats and shirts instead of handegg teams merch was beautiful.
Anyways, congratulations to the LA Dodgers
yale's beautiful campus from overhead
🚨 We're about to start reviewing applications, but there's still time to reach out for our postdoc position on climate change impact attribution! If you have experience with attribution science or climate epidemiology, and want to help us launch the Global Burden of Climate Change Study, reach out!
Excited to share our study reporting the first Sin Nombre virus (SNV) genome sequences from the Northwestern U.S., and the first ever from a vole host.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Honored to be featured in WSU’s “Q&A with a Graduate Student.” I talk about my path, current work, and the role of mentorship (special mention to my PI, @stephseifertphd.bsky.social) and collaboration in advancing my research goals. Full Q&A: vetmed.wsu.edu/qa-with-grad...
There’s been a bunch of new approaches looking at deep viral evolutionary history. We’ve put together a mini review highlighting some recent advancements in structural phylogenetics and time-dependent rate models and what they could do for the field 🦠
🔗 journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....
Added this to my reading list!
Your paper on Flavis sparked in me an interest for structural phylogenetics, thank you for sharing Jon!
The Global Burden of Climate Change Study Working Group
We may have a one-year postdoctoral position opening! We're looking for someone with experience in attribution science OR very strong skills in climate epidemiology to come help us launch a Global Burden of Climate Change Study. Remote possible for the right person; aim to raise $ for a second year.
@viralverity.bsky.social, @nathangrubaugh.bsky.social, and Salim Mattar (not on BSKY) — for making this work possible.
Huge thanks to my co-authors: Vaneza Tique-Salleg, Daniel Echeverri-De la Hoz, @lambod50.bsky.social, Daniela Paternina, @msantosvega.bsky.social, Daniela Torres, Diana Davalos, Eduardo López-Medina, Mallery I. Breban, German Arrieta, Jorge Miranda, cont.
Antigenic mapping showed dominant lineages occupy distinct antigenic clusters with substitutions at neutralizing epitopes.
These shifts likely enabled escape from homotypic immunity, with implications for population susceptibility to secondary infection.
For DENV-2II_F.1.1.2 (introduced from SE Asia), we found ≥5 independent introductions into Colombia since 2020.
Markov jump analyses confirm that Colombia acts as a bridging node for viral exchange between South & North America — acting as both source and sink in the continental network.
DENV-2III_D.2 circulated undetected in Colombia for a decade before resurging in 2021.
Phylogeography shows repeated exports to the Caribbean, Ecuador, and Venezuela, often years before detection.
This underlines how asymptomatic/under-sampled infections can reshape regional epidemics.
Colombia reported an unprecedented 321,907 dengue cases in 2024.
Our data show:
• Successive lineage replacements (DENV-2III_D.2 → DENV-2II_F.1.1.2)
• Resurgence of DENV-3III_C.2 after years of absence.
• Climatic anomalies from El Niño boosted Aedes vector suitability, driving transmission peaks.
It’s my pleasure to share our new preprint, which I had the opportunity to lead, and which has been in the making since 2022.
In this work, we used climate data, phylogeography, and antigenic profiling to uncover the dynamics of DENV spread in Colombia.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Thanksssss!!!
What list do I need to follow so there’s science and not politics on my Bluesky timeline?
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