I-Ting Tu
@itingtu.bsky.social
PhD researcher @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social in the Wellcome Trust Integrative Infectious Biology | Investigating pathogens at #wildlifelivestock #marineterrestrial interfaces🦇🦭in 🇵🇪 | Wildlife vet | Rhino fan🦏
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I-Ting Tu
@itingtu.bsky.social
· Nov 11
My 1st first-author paper is out as a preprint! Excited to share the fascinating story of marine-feeding vampire bats 🌊🦇 We found that marine-diet bats were exposed to #H5#AvianFlu 🦠 from marine wildlife and could potentially spread it to livestock via blood feed🩸
doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.09.686930
doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.09.686930
Our H5 avian flu in marine bat story is in News from Science 🌊🦇🦠 thanks @martinenserink.bsky.social for covering it! Also excited to see my MSc lecturer @thijskuiken.bsky.social commented on it!
📰 News link
www.science.org/content/arti...
🔬Preprint
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
📰 News link
www.science.org/content/arti...
🔬Preprint
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Vampire bats may have contracted H5N1 bird flu in Peru, raising worries about further spread
Bats could form a bridge between marine and terrestrial mammals, scientists say
www.science.org
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Our H5 avian flu in marine bat story is in News from Science 🌊🦇🦠 thanks @martinenserink.bsky.social for covering it! Also excited to see my MSc lecturer @thijskuiken.bsky.social commented on it!
📰 News link
www.science.org/content/arti...
🔬Preprint
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
📰 News link
www.science.org/content/arti...
🔬Preprint
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
My 1st first-author paper is out as a preprint! Excited to share the fascinating story of marine-feeding vampire bats 🌊🦇 We found that marine-diet bats were exposed to #H5#AvianFlu 🦠 from marine wildlife and could potentially spread it to livestock via blood feed🩸
doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.09.686930
doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.09.686930
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
My 1st first-author paper is out as a preprint! Excited to share the fascinating story of marine-feeding vampire bats 🌊🦇 We found that marine-diet bats were exposed to #H5#AvianFlu 🦠 from marine wildlife and could potentially spread it to livestock via blood feed🩸
doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.09.686930
doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.09.686930
It was such a fun and exciting experience participating in the 3-Minute thesis competition, and I came second in 2025 at Glasgow🦇🥈 Thanks to my very intriguing blood-feeding bats🩸🦠! @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @uofglasgow.bsky.social
youtu.be/fkZOgAS3Izo?...
youtu.be/fkZOgAS3Izo?...
I-Ting Tu - Vampire Bats, Their Food, and the Next Outbreak - From Sea to Land
YouTube video by Researcher Development University of Glasgow
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July 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
It was such a fun and exciting experience participating in the 3-Minute thesis competition, and I came second in 2025 at Glasgow🦇🥈 Thanks to my very intriguing blood-feeding bats🩸🦠! @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @uofglasgow.bsky.social
youtu.be/fkZOgAS3Izo?...
youtu.be/fkZOgAS3Izo?...
Our new paper on bat influenza transmission dynamics is out. Check it out 👀🦇🦠 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Dynamics of influenza transmission in vampire bats revealed by longitudinal monitoring and a large-scale anthropogenic perturbation
Common vampire bats maintain bat-associated influenza virus H18N11 across Peru.
www.science.org
February 10, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Our new paper on bat influenza transmission dynamics is out. Check it out 👀🦇🦠 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Really enjoyed the first day of the Influenza Update Meeting at the University of Glasgow! So nice to be introduced to the flu community - kind and helpful people! Very grateful for the opportunity to share my work! Special thanks to @socialinfluenza.bsky.social!
December 2, 2024 at 10:51 PM
Really enjoyed the first day of the Influenza Update Meeting at the University of Glasgow! So nice to be introduced to the flu community - kind and helpful people! Very grateful for the opportunity to share my work! Special thanks to @socialinfluenza.bsky.social!