The lecture hall is packed already for the very first session (>900 participants registered!) 😳
Prof. Wendy Barclay is kicking off the scientific session with insights into Influenza virus host range.
#gfv2026
A 3x3 grid of coloured images of influenza virus particles in the style of an Andy Warhol screen print. Image credit Naina Nair / Ed Hutchinson (MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research)
🚨New Influenza Tool🚨
Interested in IAV mutations?
Looking for markers of mammalian adaptation?
Frustrated by converting between IAV numbering systems?
The #Flu-MutationExplorer, a new tool from @cvrbioinfo.bsky.social and @royalvetcollege.bsky.social, is here to help:
flu-gdb.cvr.gla.ac.uk
(1/n)
Das IFG Berlin würde durch die geplanten Einschnitte von einem der besten zum möglicherweise schlechtesten #Informationsfreiheitsgesetz Deutschlands fragdenstaat.de/artikel/exkl...
Abstrakte Komposition auf hellgrauem Hintergrund mit sich überlagernden geometrischen Formen: eine horizontale Form mit grünem bis rosafarbenem Farbverlauf, ein solides blaues Dreieck, das einer Kiefer ähnelt, braune halbkreisförmige Hügel, hellgrüne organische Kleckse, eine orangefarbene Ansammlung hoher Dreiecke, ein blasser mintfarbener Kreis und ein violetter Halbkreis mit vertikalen Balken. Text: Forschungsumfeld des Jahres 2026. Bewerbungen bis zum 1. März 2026. Logos der Jungen Akademie und der VolkswagenStiftung
📣Ihr forscht und arbeitet in einem richtig guten Umfeld? Euer Team ist einfach super? Dann bewerbt euch bis zum 01.03. für die Auszeichnung "Bestes #Forschungsumfeld 2026". Gemeinsam mit der @volkswagenstiftung.de suchen wir nach inspirierenden Vorbildern!
www.diejungeakademie.de/de/projekte/...
Poster für den Workshop mit Logos vom BMFTR, EU, DZIF, HZI und PCR4ALL
Pandemic Preparedness braucht Translation: Wissenschaft → Praxis. PREPARE-EU Workshop „Translating European Expertise to Pandemic Preparedness“ am 28./29.4. (EU-Projekt #PCR4ALL). Wir freuen uns über eingereichte Abstracts! Anmelden: www.helmholtz-hzi.de/media-center...
Are you doing a PhD or research Masters in Virology? Want to be part of a community of like-minded researchers from across the UK and Ireland?
We're excited to announce the first annual conference run by and for postgraduate research students in Virology. Please sign up, and please spread the word!
An art-deco inspired logo reading 'Influenza Update Meeting' in a Charles Rennie Mackintosh format
SAVE THE DATE!
The 2025 Influenza Update Meeting will be held @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social on the 15th and 16th December - @nicolerobb.bsky.social is leading the organisation for this year's event.
We hope you'll join us there - please repost!
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The venue with “Welcome-Slide” projected. Hosts having the opening talk.
Photo of the campus biotech hall.
Talk by E. Hodcroft on Enterovirus phylogenetics with slide projected
Talk by K. Schrober on COVID-19 hypervaccination with slide projected
Back from the “Emerging Viruses and New Vaccines” symposium in Geneva by @gcevd.bsky.social. Highlights: Martin Beer on zoonotic influenza, @firefoxx66.bsky.social on enterovirus evolution, @kischober.bsky.social on COVID‑19 hypervaccination, and David Heymann on poxvirus eradication. Great event!
The UK has announced a case of avian flu virus #H5N1 detected in a sheep (on a farm with infected birds). I think some of the significance of this (and the wider picture) is being missed in a lot of the reporting. So a short thread...
🧪 #IDsky
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H5N1 Join the webinar today at 13.00 CET
What research is important to prepare and respond to #H5N1 influenza outbreaks?
Join the WHO webinar TODAY at 13:00 CET as experts explore:
✅ Knowledge gaps & priority research areas
✅ Regulatory pathways for mRNA vaccines & novel approaches
✅ Therapeutic options
Register now 👉 bit.ly/4iT0nrS
Image with text that reads: It's happening now: I know it's totally overwhelming but here are just a handful of things happening in US Science & public health RIGHT NOW. I need you to know, so you can realise how you are being defrauded from a healthy, disease free future, with thriving science. I need you to know, so you can tell others.
Huge thanks to my sister for helping put these together.
If an #H5N1 pandemic starts tomorrow or in three months, there will be little mystery as to how it happened. The conditions are all there. They have been for a while.
So in some ways the more interesting question to me at the moment is: Why aren’t we in a pandemic yet?
Story here, 🧵 to come:
🧪#IDSky