Rhys Parry
@rhyshparry.bsky.social
Virologist at the University of Queensland. #virology #virusevolution #rnavirology
🏆 #MicroSeq2026 has plenty of awards on offer! 💰Cash prizes for best talks are sponsored by @aussocmic.bsky.social @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social and #MGen. Plus, loads of merch on offer for the best question of each session! 🖊️📔 Register here to submit an abstract👇 trybooking.com/events/landing/1610956
Calling all students and ECR virologists! 🦠 The AVS Young Virologist Symposium 2026 is coming to hubs across Australia and New Zealand this August–October. Free registration: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... Submit an abstract by 31 July: drive.google.com/uc?export=do... Find your nearest hub 👇
Inaugural post! We are a brand new lab @pasteur.fr studying how pathogen antigens evolve and how we can exploit these proteins' evolution to make better vaccines! Read a few words from the currently sole member of the lab @spyroslytras.bsky.social below! 😁 www.pasteur.fr/en/research-...
Predicting viral evolution with AI
Spyros Lytras is one of four young scientists selected in 2025 to lead new research groups at the Institut Pasteur. He has headed the “Antigen Evolution & Design laboratory” 5-year Group (G5) since Ju...
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Extended deadline 31 May! 🚨 Please RT! Join us in Copenhagen, for #HCVFlavi2026! The international conference on Hepatitis C Virus, Flaviviruses and Related viruses. 🗓️ September 14–17, 2026 ⏳Abstracts: May 31; Early Registration: June 14 hcv-flavi2026.org #Antivirals #HCV #Flavivirus #Vaccines
Home - HCV-FLAVI 2026
Days Hours Minutes Seconds Program Registration Abstracts Organizing Committee Social Events Welcome to HCV-Flavi 2026 We warmly invite you to join the 32nd International Symposium on Hepatitis C Viru...
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#AVS13 award applications are open for the AVS Rising Star Award and AVS Young Award, recognising outstanding early- and mid-career virologists in Australia and New Zealand. Recipients will be awarded and announced at the national conference. Closes Sun 9 Aug 2026. www.avs2026.org/travelgrants...
Abstract submissions and registration are now open for #AVS13, the 13th Australasian Virology Society Meeting 2026, held 7–10 Dec at the National Wine Centre, Adelaide. Abstracts close Fri 24 July 2026. Submit: www.avs2026.org/submissions Register: www.avs2026.org/registration
Today @who.int declared a PHEIC—a public health emergency of international concern—for the Bundibugyo ebolavirus outbreak in DRC/Uganda without convening an Emergency Committee. That is unprecedented. The situation is catastrophic. Six experts explain why: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKag...
We Responded to Ebola. Here's Why This Outbreak Terrifies Us. | Read & subscribe: celinegounder.com
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Under the IHR (2005), @drtedros.who.int, the Director General of WHO, having consulted the States Parties where the event is occurring, has determined that the Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus in DRC & Uganda constitutes a public health emergency of international concern bit.ly/3P4ZDac
📝 SFTSV NSs protein is a novel tick antiviral RNAi suppressor — out now in PNAS 🧵#SFTSV www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
SFTSV NSs protein is a tick antiviral RNAi response suppressor | PNAS
Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV) is an emerging tick-borne phenuivirus causing high mortality in humans. While the nonstru...
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A virus doesn’t become a pandemic simply because it’s deadly.
Hantavirus is very different to COVID. Here’s why the ‘Andes virus’ won’t cause the next pandemic
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My ANDV #Hantavirus @nextstrain.org phylogenies now pull directly from @pathoplexus.org to incorporate all seqs I'll continue to improve them, & will keep them updated Change the Tip Labels in the left-hand menu. You can see links to all builds, plus tanglegrams at: nextstrain.org/groups/hodcr...
#AVS2026 – Watch this space! The 13th Australasian Virology Society Meeting is coming to Adelaide (7–10 Dec) at the National Wine Centre. Join virologists from across Australasia for a program spanning virus discovery, immunology, vaccines, clinical and structural virology. www.avs2026.org
For cash-strapped and early-career researchers, archived data sets can fuel new science go.nature.com/41pxVXX
How I squeeze fresh science from public data
For cash-strapped and early-career researchers, archived data sets can fuel new science.
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Applications are now open for the 2026 Metagenomic Virus Discovery workshop in Stellenbosch, South Africa Last years workshop brought together a fantastic community of researchers and our teachers were able to provide one-on-one support to each participant Find out more at mvdworkshop.com
Applications are open for the 2026 Metagenomic Virus Discovery Workshop! The Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation, Stellenbosch University is hosting a 5 day hands-on workshop run by experts in the field from around the world Find out more at our website mvdworkshop.com
Imposter syndrome? This man referred to pipetting as being “on the tools” to the technician fixing the BSC today.
We found a viral Trojan Horse: a virus can hide inside another virus.This one surprised us: deltaviruses don’t just borrow a helper virus. They can travel inside it. A literal Trojan Horse “virus-in-a-virus” route into cells. 🤯 Kudos to 1st author @viroscope.bsky.social and co-authors !
Deltaviruses spread through a viral Trojan Horse
Hepatitis D-like satellite viruses, known as deltaviruses, have been recently discovered in a wide range of animals. These viruses are thought to expr…
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Great news for the toxic PI that wants RNA seq data analysed in under a minute.
Alejandro Montenegro@aemonten.bsky.social · 5mo agoI'm sorry, 50 what now? "We present a GPU implementation of kallisto for RNA-seq transcript quantification (...). For a large dataset of 295 million reads, runtime drops from 40 minutes to 50 seconds" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Wonderful to host @jonathonmifsud.bsky.social at UQ today for the SCMB Seminar Series. An excellent journey using protein structural information to study viral evolution across deep time, including new insights into the evolutionary history of Flaviviridae (RIP) and viral membrane fusion mechanisms.
It took a while, and many many people, but the offflu wildlife working group has brought together a (MASSIVE) overview of avian influenza epi and surveillance, 2020-20 👉 offlu.org/publications...
@mbhall88.bsky.social was an absolute tour de force on this project, taking something we all had little experience in (linear plasmids, and gram positive bugs!) and turning it into an exciting, novel, and detailed report on an emerging pathogen. A must read!
Michael Hall@mbhall88.bsky.social · 5mo agoUntil joining @loolibear.bsky.social's lab in July, I embarrassingly hadn't had much experience with plasmids. So when I started, Leah said "here you go, have a look at this dataset". What a fun ride this has been. Preprint out today and thread below www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
Excited to share our new paper on producing recombinant bat antibodies! 🦇🧬 Out now in Frontiers in Immunology: www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm... #bat #antibodies #immunoglobulin #chiroptera #antiviral
Frontiers | Cloning, expression and characterisation of antigen-specific recombinant bat immunoglobulin from the black flying fox (Pteropus alecto)
Bats are natural reservoir of viruses that cause severe disease in livestock and humans. Recent high-profile spillover events have directed significant atten...
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A little over 12 months ago, 150 scientists from 16 countries gathered in Geelong to reflect on the past 30 years of henipavirus research, current developments and future directions. The outcomes of that meeting are detailed in our recent publication in EID below. wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
Integrating Prevention and Response at the Crossroads of Henipavirus Preparedness, Hendra@30 Conference, 2024
Hendra@30 Henipavirus Conference, 2024
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Thanks to a post on iNaturalist, and a series of serendipitous events, an Australian flowering plant thought extinct for almost 60 years has been rediscovered. au.news.yahoo.com/photo-leads-...
Photo leads to rediscovery of Aussie species plant almost 60 years after 'extinction'
The incredible find was only possible due to a series of 'serendipitous' events. Find out more.
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I'm excited that our review paper on superinfection exclusion in insect-specific flaviviruses is now published. This comprehensive review summarizes the experimental data on the ability of different ISFs to cause SIE and suggests future pathways in SIE research: www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/18...
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Global solidarity in genomic surveillance improves early detection of acute respiratory virus threats. "Importantly, these benefits cannot be attained by siloed expansion in countries that already possess strong capacity." Well done to the team! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Global solidarity in genomic surveillance improves early detection of acute respiratory virus threats - Nature Communications
Respiratory virus genomic surveillance output is unevenly distributed globally. Here, the authors show that addressing this imbalance could substantially reduce the time to first detection o...
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An interesting way to look at encoded structural characters to build alignments and trees downstream. This takes structural phylogenetics one step further in the post-AlphaFold era. #Evolution #Science #StrPhy On Confidence Assessment in Structure-Aware Alignments doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
Structome-AlignViewer: On Confidence Assessment in Structure-Aware Alignments
Abstract. Protein structure-based comparison provides a framework for uncovering deep evolutionary relationships that can escape conventional sequence-base
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Check out our new print that combines dense sequencing and phylodynamics to uncover a bunch of 😎 things about an understudied virus. - Doesn't evolve for 10 months a year ✅ - Uses some mossies for maintenance, others for spread ✅ - Established in Northeast for ~300 years ✅
Ellie Bourgikos@ebourgikos.bsky.social · 7mo ago🦟📄 New preprint! Our first large-scale phylodynamic study of Jamestown Canyon virus (JCV) reveals how mosquito ecology shapes the evolution, persistence, and spread of this understudied arbovirus in North America. Read it here! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
