Viral Informatics, Biostatistics, and Evolution (VIBE) Lab
@vibelab.co.uk
We use newly emerging data and computational methods to investigate cross-species transmission of RNA viruses and their evolution! More info: https://vibelab.co.uk/ Based at @cvrinfo.bsky.social Managed by @liambrierley.bsky.social
Does your PhD DTP allow 3-month placements? Excited by computing, bioinformatics, software dev? Interested in translating academic research into real world health protection? Apply to this UKHSA internship in collab with us on early bird flu pandemic warnings! gla-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/person...
Followed by another @vibelab.co.uk member Dr Jamie Herzig showing how to tease apart genuine 'host signatures' in viral genomes from phylogenetic signal, also with graph neural nets! #ViBioM2026 @evbc.bsky.social
Dr Haley Stone opening #ViBioM2026 showing our work to predict virus-tissue compatibility using graph neural nets! @evbc.bsky.social
🦅 What’s driving the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) across Europe? Using machine learning and wild bird ecology, a new study from @L_Brierley & colleagues reveals a shift towards year-round risk in cold, low-lying regions of NW Europe. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ecology and environment predict spatially stratified risk of H5 highly pathogenic avian influenza clade 2.3.4.4b in wild birds across Europe - Scientific Reports
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) represents a threat to animal and human health, with the ongoing H5N1 outbreak within the H5 2.3.4.4b clade being one of the largest on record. However, it rem...
nature.com
🚨📝 New work via @thepandemicinst.bsky.social now preprinted! We took ~19000 sequences of avian influenza virus and trained machine learning models on >40000 genomic/proteomic features - the resulting ensemble can predict zoonotic potential with AUC=0.95. More below! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
An AI for an AI: identifying zoonotic potential of avian influenza viruses via genomic machine learning
Avian influenza remains a serious risk to human health via zoonotic transmission, as well as a feasible pandemic threat. Although limited zoonotic cases have resulted from the current epizootic outbre...
biorxiv.org
Happily kicking off my Bluesky account with our new preprint exploring how post-pandemic shifts in immunity have changed the risk of future zoonotic coronavirus emergence. Check it out here: 🔬📄 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... Excited to connect and discuss! #Virology #Epidemiology #Science
Post-pandemic changes in population immunity have reduced the likelihood of emergence of zoonotic coronaviruses
Infections caused by endemic viruses, and the vaccines used to control them, often provide cross-protection against related viruses. This cross-protection has the potential to alter the transmission d...
medrxiv.org
🚨👨🏽🔬👩🏿🔬𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁! Work with us to develop supervised learning and graph analysis of the evolutionary and genomic links between viruses, the tissues they can infect, and the hosts that can be infected. 3y role based at @cvrinfo.bsky.social, apply by 18 Mar: vibelab.co.uk/blog/25-02-1...
3y postdoc role available in computational biology! | VIBE Research Lab
Work with us in a three year postdoc research role! The role will develop supervised learning and graph analysis methods to understand the evolutionary and genomic links between viruses, the tissues t...
vibelab.co.uk
Really proud to share our preprint describing early adaptation of H5N1 to US dairy cattle, and showing how these mutations enhance the ability of the virus to infect other mammals, such as pigs and humans. With @influenzal.bsky.social @vidhid.bsky.social @drclairesmith.bsky.social and many more!
Polymerase mutations underlie adaptation of H5N1 influenza virus to dairy cattle and other mammals.
In early 2024, an unprecedented outbreak of H5N1 high pathogenicity avian influenza was detected in dairy cattle in the USA. The epidemic remains uncontrolled, with spillbacks into poultry, wild birds...
biorxiv.org
Something I'm very proud of: @viralemergence.bsky.social has spent years now using ML models to figure out which orthopoxviruses could pose a risk to human health (left) and trace them back to their animal hosts (right) Links: www.cell.com/patterns/pdf... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
BK. Titanji@boghuma.bsky.social · 2y agoEarlier this year an immunocompromised patient succumbed to a borrealpox (formerly alaskapox) infection. Only 7 human cases have been reported in history, the other 6 have been mild. Detailed case report now in CID. Orthopoxviruses are a growing threat. ##IDSky🧪 academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...
🔍🦠🦗 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲! Work with us, @martashocket.bsky.social and Max Farrell to build information systems and large language models to capture key biological host-pathogen relations from literature - that could control crop pests or conserve biodiversity!
