Amy Fitzpatrick

RNA viruses at UCD | @amyhfitzpatrick.bsky.social |
IRC postdoc | virology & bioinformatics🦠| Ballet and book lover 🩰 | Eurovision fanatic 🇮🇪🇮🇹🇩🇰

[TeenyTimbre @Timbre_Breda]

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Many if you may wonder why #adoptees are so angry at the >6 month rule which excludes them from the #financialredress of the #motherandbabyhome scheme.
This is the medical report that prospective adoptive parents had to get from their GP after 1970

[Guido Papa @guidovir_]

🚨We’re #hiring!

🧑‍🔬#Postdoc position is available in my newly established group at the University of Milan 🇮🇹 to study viral replication factories and develop innovative #antiviral strategies based on #TPD 🧬🦠

Join us for this exciting science! 🔬

🔗 Details below

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[Sharok shekarriz @SharokShekarriz]

A lot of what looks like microbial engraftment after FMT might actually be noise. Using placebo sequencing and culture-enriched metagenomics, we sort signal from noise. Our latest from the Surette lab: https://t.co/cKESkWUZRj
@surette_m @Farncombe_GI @IMAGINE_SPOR @machealthsci

[Toni Gabaldón @toni_gabaldon]

We are looking for a Doctoral Candidate with a #bioinformatics background to use metagenomics to study microbial pathogens in non-clinical niches as part of #SPOILCONTROL @MSCActions DN DC5 - Pathogenic Flora https://t.co/GBNHsqjhfW

[Pat O Toole @potooleifj]

There is a massive divergence between the proposals farmers are putting forward to combat bovine TB and those being made by @agriculture_ie
But something needs to happen soon, as reactor rates spiral out of control
https://t.co/fxKs2A9gte

[Prof. Dr. Kenneth Dumack @KDumack]

🚨 3-year Postdoc position! Join the Aquatic Ecosystem Analysis group @UniKoblenz. 🔬 Microbial #ecology, #protists, #algae, #plankton & flexibility | 💻 Environmental -omics 📅 Apply by May 15 | 🔗 https://t.co/8aEbEj3vWQ | https://t.co/QW0a1SnXzQ
Please share! @protistologists

[Ming "Tommy" Tang @tangming2005]

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"Just do a quick analysis."

If you're a bioinformatician, you've heard this before.

But here's the truth 👇

[Nature Microbiology @NatureMicrobiol]

Out Now! A broadly protective human antibody for GI genogroup noroviruses https://t.co/oBRJleScgy #Norovirus #HumanAntibody #GIgenogroup

[Ivana Bacik @ivanabacik]

Today’s report is disappointing but not surprising.

It is clear we cannot simply appeal to any sense of moral duty from religious orders to ensure justice.

Our @labour Redress Bill would compel institutions to pay up and close legal loopholes.

[Simon Sin @sywsin]

🦇🎣🦇 Happy to share our study on 🐟fish-eating 🦇#bats! Our findings reveal, for the first time, that Rickett's big-footed #myotis (Myotis pilosus) consumes marine fishes. It consumes more 🐠fish during the dry season, and more 🦋insects during the wet months.

[Alfredo Castello @Alf_Castello]

🚨🚨News: Interested in the proteome configuration that makes a cell permissive or hostile to virus infection? Why mRNA levels do not fully reflect the proteome status after interferon treatment? See the new paper from @castello_lab and Mohammed lab https://t.co/LVJYpF2TSs

[Phage Directory @phagedirectory]

.@tamsin_redgwell (Copenhagen University Hospital) and colleagues published a new paper on #prophage induction in infant gut microbiomes, showing most prophages were actively induced and may modulate host bacterial functionality through accessory genes.

https://t.co/mpE6MCJEyh

[Hasindu Gamaarachchi @Hasindu2008]

Introducing cornetto, an adaptive genome assembly paradigm using @nanopore adaptive sampling.
- greatly reduces cost per genome assembly
- reference agnostic, so works for non-humans
- assembly just using saliva
- & many more
Relies on 2 excellent software #readfish & #hifiasm.

[Paul Cotter @pauldcotter]

Big congratulations to @Metagymomics on the successful defence of his PhD thesis today. Thanks ever so much to examiners @SarahLebeer and Hilary Browne & chair Frank Peters. Well done also to fellow proud supervisors @sligomicrobe @calumari_walsh and @VanSinderenLab

[Huiluo Cao 曹慧荦 @hlcao]

Non‐differential gut microbes contribute to hypertension and its severity through co‐abundances: A multi‐regional prospective cohort study - Liu - 2025 - iMeta - Wiley Online Library https://t.co/p2WwBLIHO5

[Cllr. Noelle Brown @BrownNollieb]

Not one single penny contributed to the appalling Redress Scheme from religious orders. Compel them to pay and make them accountable for decades of human rights abuses.#MotherAndBabyHomes

[biohub @biohub]

"Next generation Snippy will allow a detailed comparison of the world's bacterial genomes.” @torstenseemann & @wytamma are building #OpenSource software to better understand how bacteria evolve + defeat antibiotics

[J.O.K.Emmanuel🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @EmmanuelKuffo15]

Great session at the Virology Symposium at #Microbio25 today. Huge thanks @MicrobioSoc for the opportunity to present some of our work on phages of S suis.

[Mahony Lab @JenniferMahony7]

Well done @EmmanuelKuffo15 It's great to see Bonnie and Clyde in the headlines!!

[John Kenny @jgskenny]

Great talk today by ⁦@EmmanuelKuffo15⁩ at #Microbio25 on his phage targeting of the pig pathogen Strep suis. ⁦@JenniferMahony7⁩ ⁦@Pharmabiotic⁩ ⁦@TeagascFood⁩ ⁦@egmanzanilla⁩