Excited to have been a part of this. Using scalable unsupervised machine learning we were able to identify and track new growing SARS-CoV-2 lineages. No sequence alignment or phylogenetics required. About 2 days on a laptop to process all sequences in GISAID. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Excited to announce a postdoc position in my group! 🦠📈🧪 Come help us understand variability in immune responses to influenza vaccination, especially repeat vaccination, using data from a randomized trial and more. Great collaborators, methods, and problem. cobeylab.uchicago.edu/p/join-us

Important new study of persistent SARS-CoV-2 infections and Long Covid —1-3 per 100 people > 1 month —0.1-0.5% >2 months —High rebounding viral loads in many suggest actively replicating virus —>50% higher risk of Long Covid www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our paper on persistent SARS-CoV-2 infections (PIs) is now published in Nature! Some key findings: - PIs are much more common than we thought - PIs are associated with higher odds of long COVID - Reinfections with genetically similar viruses are rare www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Virus genomics peeps: - phyloscanner now uses RAxML next-gen or IQtree for better trees - shiver now handles unpaired reads (PacBio, NanoPore) as well as paired (Illumina) - our virtual machine with both pre-installed has had a much needed update github.com/ChrisHIV/shi... github.com/BDI-pathogen...

New fellowships now live in Medical Science at UoB. Springboard fellowship to pay you for two years to develop and apply for your first independent fellowship. Obviously Micro more than welcome. Email me for more info edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Birmingham Springboard Fellow - College of Medical and Dental Sciences - 103214 - Grade 7/8

The College of Medical and Dental Science (MDS) of the University of Birmingham offers pump-priming postdoctoral fellowship awards to early career researchers to support development of their independe...

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One week left to apply to the Social Lives of Viruses 2024! 50-person meeting on viral sociality, from virology to evolution, in Puerto Rico this June. All welcome; free accommodation and registration. Apply here: forms.gle/SvgCix9Njr8r... #SocialViruses #ViroSky #MicroSky #EvoSky

Asher Leeks@asherleeks.bsky.social · 3y ago

Announcing the Social Lives of Viruses 2024! Do you study social evolution in viruses? Do you want to? Join us in Puerto Rico this June for a 50-person meeting dedicated to viral sociality. All costs covered. Apply here: forms.gle/sHTEcHJjryDh... #ViroSky #MicroSky #EvoSky #SocialViruses