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Ben Longdon @blongdon.bsky.social · 1d

Research assistant + postdoc position on a NERC funded project working w @darrenobbard.bsky.social and collaborating with @savebutterflies.bsky.social on the ecological and evolutionary drivers of the virome of UK moths @uniexecec.bsky.social. Descriptions below and links here benlongdon.com/join/

Our local beach - blue waters and white sand

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Metagenomic Virus Discovery workshop @virus-metagenomics.bsky.social · 2d

Just under 6 weeks until the metagenomic virus discovery workshop kicks off in Stellenbosch, South Africa. We're excited to be bringing together a fantastic group of speakers and teachers with expertise in all aspects of virus discovery from around the world.

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MicroSeq2025 @microseqasm.bsky.social · Sep 1

✨ #MicroSeq2025 Plenary Highlight! ✨
Dr Jackie Mahar is an evolutionary virologist & bioinformatician based at CSIRO, managing projects on NGS-based phylogenomics of zoonotic & animal viruses for pathogen discovery, surveillance & viral ecology.
Register👇
trybooking.com/events/landing/1424679

Photograph of Dr Jackie Mahar, a researcher based at Agriculture Victoria Research. Her portrait is decorated with cartoons of microbes. Dr Jackie Mahar is an invited plenary speaker for MicroSeq2025.

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MicroSeq2025 @microseqasm.bsky.social · Jul 14

📣Calling Australian/NZ ECRs and PhD Students 📣 Abstract submission and registration for MicroSeq2025 opens July 21! Abstracts for both medium-length and lightning talks will be welcome.

MicroSeq2025 is an ECR and PhD student-friendly online meeting focused on the interface between sequencing technology and microbiology. being held on 3rd and 4th September, 2025. Registration and abstract submission opens on July 21, 2025 and abstracts are due August 8, 2025. Participants can register at microseqconference.com.

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Erin Harvey @erinharvey.bsky.social · Jul 5

Got a great idea for a metagenomic virus discovery project but not sure what to do next? We are running a 5 day hands on workshop in beautiful Stellenbosch, South Africa with experts from around the world. Applications are open until 31st July. climade.health/2025/06/22/m...

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Erin Harvey @erinharvey.bsky.social · Jul 2

Interested in metagenomic virus discovery but don't know where to start? In collaboration with CERI and a group of virus discovery experts from around the world, we'll be running a 5 day hands-on workshop in virus discovery.
Find out more here: climade.health/2025/06/22/m...

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Erin Harvey @erinharvey.bsky.social · Jun 27

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Erin Harvey @erinharvey.bsky.social · Jun 27

I’m so excited to finally have this work published. Fantastic work from @julienmelade.bsky.social culturing a virus identified through metagenomic virus discovery methods

Eddie Holmes @eddieholmes.bsky.social · Jun 26

First isolation of a mammalian chuvirus, bizarrely from Tasmanian Devil facial tumour cells. Work led by @julienmelade.bsky.social and @erinharvey.bsky.social. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Isolation of an infectious mammalian chu-like virus from tumor cells of the endangered Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii)

Jingchuvirales are single-stranded negative-sense RNA viruses classified into five families, including the Chuviridae.1 Jingchuviruses were first foun…

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Katy Brown @thekatybrown.bsky.social · May 27

I'm thinking of organising a meeting on endogenous viral elements (RNA, DNA and retroviral) - if you'd potentially be interested, please fill out the form here - forms.gle/wrCiWMw4yXZe... - so I can gauge interest. Please RT or share with anyone maybe interested! 🧪🧬🖥️🦠 #virology #bioinformatics

EVE Meeting Expression of Interest

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Erin Harvey @erinharvey.bsky.social · May 23

After just short of nine years in the Holmes group, it’s come time for me to move on and stop spending Eddie’s money. I’ve had an incredible time working with everything from Antarctic ticks to Brazilian bird poo. But I’m excited to be starting a Humboldt fellowship and joining FLI in Germany

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micamer.bsky.social @micamer.bsky.social · Mar 11

We would love feedback on a new NCBI-BLAST service we are launching today: sky-blast.com

Under the hood it's the same BLAST executable and databases provided by NCBI, with a replica of the NIH's interface - providing an alternative to the US gov service that's less congested, faster & more reliable

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Feb 26

The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

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Cameron Webb @mozziebites.bsky.social · Feb 26

I know all the headlines about the recent Japanese Encephalitis death in NSW state “a man from Sydney” but please keep in mind that there is currently no evidence the virus is active in mosquitoes along the east coast (inc. Sydney). https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/news/Pages/20250225_01.aspx

News - NSW records first death of person with Japanese encephalitis since 2022

NSW Health continues to urge the public to be vigilant and take precautions against mosquitoes as NSW records its first death of a person with Japanese encephalitis (JE) since May 2022.

www.health.nsw.gov.au

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RdRp Summit @rdrpsummit.bsky.social · Feb 19

The abstract submission & registration for #RdRpSummit2025 is NOW OPEN!!! 🎉🙌
Do you work on RNA virus discovery using RdRps? Are you joining the #ViBioM2025 in Portugal?
Consider submitting your research in one of our sessions!
More info: RdRp.io

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Viral Informatics, Biostatistics, and Evolution (VIBE) Lab @vibelab.co.uk · Feb 18

🚨👨🏽‍🔬👩🏿‍🔬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...

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Colin Parrish @colinparrish.bsky.social · Jan 9

Who appointed the ICTV or its members and gave them authority? Taxonomy should facilitate clear and accurate communications. For many viral Families constantly changing names (not just binomials) have consistently created confusion - and been largely ignored by workers in the field.

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Eddie Holmes @eddieholmes.bsky.social · Dec 12

Turns out that metatranscriptomic sequencing of animal gut contains can identify exotic plant viruses that are biosecurity threats. Work led by Jackie Mahar and Solomon Maina. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Detection of exotic biosecurity threat ribgrass mosaic virus and novel tobamoviruses through metatranscriptomic sequencing of animal gut content

Ribgrass mosaic virus (RMV) and related viruses of the genus Tobamovirus (Virgaviridae) are cruciferous plant pathogens that represent a threat to global horticultural systems. In Australia, they are ...

www.biorxiv.org

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Erin Harvey @erinharvey.bsky.social · Dec 14

Within the order jingchivirales it seems random what has been classified vs not. Within the family some of the genera are not monophyletic and again, what is classified vs not seems random

Erin Harvey @erinharvey.bsky.social · Dec 14

Don’t even get me started on the chuviridae…

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Sabrina Sadiq @royalfizzbin.bsky.social · Dec 4

Now @erinharvey.bsky.social is taking us through increasingly weird viruses in increasingly weird marsupials. Tassie devils, antechinus, numbats, oh my! #AVS12

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Erin Harvey @erinharvey.bsky.social · Dec 4

Im always excited for a chance to talk about marsupials 🦘

Australasian Virology Society @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social · Dec 4

Welcome to the last day of #AVS12 Kicking off our Virus evolution session is our invited speaker Erin Harvey @erinharvey.bsky.social discussing the Macro-scale evolution of mammalian viruses. Aussie Marsupials are one of the basal lineages within mammals and are an interesting group for discovery.

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Erin Harvey @erinharvey.bsky.social · Dec 4

We love hearing about weird viruses with @marypetrone.bsky.social to wake us up for the last day of #AVS

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Erin Harvey @erinharvey.bsky.social · Dec 4

A great intro to our work on a crazy Tassie devil virus from @julienmelade.bsky.social in the #AVS science bites session. Find out more at poster 102 this evening

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Erin Harvey @erinharvey.bsky.social · Dec 4

A fantastic talk on RNA virus diversity in Australian soil from our dirt queen and master of giant trees @royalfizzbin.bsky.social #AVS

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Erin Harvey @erinharvey.bsky.social · Dec 3

@julienmelade.bsky.social and I are so excited to present our work on Tassie devil viruses at AVS this week that we went and found one

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