Philippe Lemey's lab

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[PLOS Biology @PLOSBiology]

How fast do #viruses spread in the wild? @sdellicour @LemeyLab &co compare dispersal metrics from #phylogeographic analysis of viral #epidemic genomes with dispersal capacity of diverse viruses, revealing host movement-related discrepancies #PLOSBiology https://t.co/pH3MnR7NKo

[Jelle Matthijnssens @JMatthijnssens]

It was an honor to host the #ViBioM2024 meeting in #Leuven @ the #RegaInsitute the last 3 days! Great science @ the interface of #Virology & #Bioinformatics! Fantastic to welcome old friends and make new ones! Hope to see you all again in Lisbon @ #ViBioM2025 🦠 🖥️

[Simon Dellicour @sdellicour]

Please RT, the Spatial Epidemiology Lab (https://t.co/9SrgXZJfJe, @ULBRecherche) is hiring: I am looking for a post-doc to work on spatial models helping to target under-immunised communities during vaccination activities in the DRC: https://t.co/OSVNepzEfM

[Simon Dellicour @sdellicour]

How fast are viruses spreading in the wild? Check out our latest study now available as a preprint on bioRxiv: https://t.co/JkUpOaUhLb. A study performed with Paul Bastide, Pauline Rocu, Denis Fargette, Olivier Hardy, @suchard_group, Stéphane Guindon, and @LemeyLab (1/7)

[Tiago Gräf @GrafTiago]

In this study we have analyzed almost 300k SARS-CoV-2 genomes, most of them generated by COVIGEN network which played a central role in strengthening genomic surveillance in Latin America and the Caribbean region. We then inferred the diffusion patterns of Gamma, Lambda and Mu.

[European Virus Bioinformatics Center @EVirusBioinfC]

Leishmania braziliensis populations in rainforests have low-prevalence single viral lineages, while more dispersed hybrid #parasites show increased #viral #prevalence, #diversity, and #spread. [EVBC involved: @LemeyLab] https://t.co/2UEoCQEuIF

[European Virus Bioinformatics Center @EVirusBioinfC]

Here we go again: Mark your calendars for the International #VirusBioinformatics Meeting 2024 and join us in Leuven, May 28-30, 2024! Organized together with @KU_Leuven and @ULBruxelles.
Stay tuned for more updates and registration details. #SaveTheDate #ViBioM2024

[Simon Dellicour @sdellicour]

Proud to announce that our latest collaborative study on the projected decline in European bumblebee populations in the 21st century has just been published in @Nature: https://t.co/jjqcF7rpkp - @frsFNRS @ULBRecherche (1/9)

[Simon Dellicour @sdellicour]

Our latest study, in which we used a phylogeographic approach to investigate the endemic signature of rabies virus (RABV) circulation in Cambodia, has just been published in Molecular Ecology: https://t.co/dMXcSA3nHd

[Joseph Tsui @JoeTLH]

Excited to see our paper now online https://t.co/tVhieL9SeS! By integrating a dataset of ~116,000 Omicron genomic sequences with epi and human mobility data, we investigate the invasion dynamics of Omicron BA.1 into England and its local dissemination at multiple spatial scales.

[Spyros Lytras @SpyrosLytras]

We got a new preprint up on @biorxivpreprint !! The recency and geographical origins of the bat viruses ancestral to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 🦇🦠🗺https://t.co/6HaF2XAISE

[Simon Dellicour @sdellicour]

Our new study on main SARS-CoV-2 variants having spread in New York City (late 2020 - early 2022) has been published in @PLOSPathogens: https://t.co/fZZSjlzNTI (1/5)

[European Virus Bioinformatics Center @EVirusBioinfC]

Massively parallel #GPU algorithms enable more efficient inference techniques for #phylogenetic models with increasing number of sequences. [preprint co-authored by EVBC members @LemeyLab @suchard_group] https://t.co/3Vth8wC0TR

[Simon Dellicour @sdellicour]

The study that we conducted with Steven Van Borm and Géraldine Boseret from @sciensano on the atypically pathogenic avian influenza H3N1 epidemic that occurred in Belgium in 2019 has just been published in @CDCgov Emerging Infectious Disease journal: https://t.co/IXcxoMvWwZ

[European Virus Bioinformatics Center @EVirusBioinfC]

Early Genomic #Surveillance and #Phylogeographic Analysis of Getah Virus, a Reemerging #Arbovirus, in Livestock in China. [co-authored by EVBC members @sdellicour @suchard_group @LemeyLab] https://t.co/adDkOqJ8zY

[European Virus Bioinformatics Center @EVirusBioinfC]

Predicting the evolution of the #Lassa virus endemic area and population at risk: introduced into a new suitable region, the #spread might remain spatially limited over the first decades. [co-authored by EVBC members @suchard_group @LemeyLab @sdellicour] https://t.co/iqkvR8W65T

[European Virus Bioinformatics Center @EVirusBioinfC]

Summary of the #Bayesian #phylogenetic framework and conceptualization of a variety of methods to improve posterior approximations via Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling. #inference [Review co-authored by EVBC members @suchard_group @LemeyLab] https://t.co/zjw94FLEZR

[Sebastian Lequime @S_Lequime]

Very pleased to see @LiYiqiao92's work on Pestivirus endogenous viral elements (EVEs) in shrew genomes now out in MBE! https://t.co/iOKz6T6wxN A short thread about the key points: