Assistant Professor in Virus Genomics @LSHTM @MRC_Uganda; former #MSCA Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow&postdoc @sangerinstitute VirusGenomics&DPhil @OUCRU_Vietnam
OUT NOW: SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance from March 2020 - January 2021 in Uganda reveals the emergence and spread of the lineage A variant (A.23.1).
Led by @mlcotten13 @LSHTM@MRC_Uganda
https://t.co/a0lG6HmKOZ
@JeremyFarrar@macroliter@GISAID @LSUHSEVTLab @edwardcholmes @mlcotten13 Many thanks Jeremy for the kind words and support. It's a big change but lots of exciting work to do
@JeremyFarrar@macroliter@GISAID @LSUHSEVTLab @edwardcholmes We reported variant changes over time in Uganda:
https://t.co/yL0eFABxQv
& preprint here:
https://t.co/5RCy0jF6m8
Vietnam, a leader in pandemic performance, has 93.8 million people, only 35 covid deaths (1 in 2.8 million, lowest risk in the world) and <2,500 cases
It also has the highest support for vaccines
https://t.co/93Drmv9ECj @TheLancet
coronaSPAdes combines ideas from biosyntheticSPAdes, rnaSPAdes, metaSPAdes and metaviralSPAdes to improve the resconsruction of coronavirus genomes. Early access snapshot is available at: https://t.co/yvqKqSNk0D. Please contact us for questions, suggestions and other feedback 2/2
While the physical government response to #COVID19 dominate the headlines, the Vietnamese hand washing video going viral on #TikTok is a great reminder that social science CAN scale to meet these challenges. Once again Asia leads the way with innovation https://t.co/y76kw4OwhA
In Vietnam I had the chance to sit down with some of our @ObamaFoundation leaders and alumni from across the Asia Pacific. From combating climate change in Vietnam to evaluating social impact in Indonesia, they're doing extraordinary work and expanding their impact together.
Learn about UN-Water family’s integrated #MonitoringSDG6 initiative, a framework to support countries collect and use water & sanitation data and report on global progress towards #SDG 6. https://t.co/DZlrw9QDdo
@UNECE@UNESCO @UNEnvironment @FAO@WHO@UNHabitat@UNICEF@WMO
James Coyne @CoyneoftheRealm exposes bogus mindfulness paper as an "experimercial" and gets it retracted over undeclared financial conflicts of interest. Mindfulness is nearly 100% b.s.; kudos to Coyne https://t.co/uNRijMNKhM via @ivanoransky
Here's a thread about a preprint we (@trvrb and I) put up on @biorxivpreprint. It's the last bit of work that I did in Seattle before leaving. It's called "The ability of single genes vs full genomes to resolve time and space in outbreak analysis": https://t.co/keEARoztrA
Excellent and well-designed Individual-based Model (eVIVALDI) developed by @doctor_jams to investigate the interplay between bacteriophages, antibiotics and environmental structure and how they affect microbial competition outcomes https://t.co/8dNsBxwKdE
Our paper 'Network controllability analysis of intracellular signalling reveals viruses are actively controlling molecular systems' now published in @SciReports: https://t.co/SE1Sy4cNJM where we compare #controllability of a #virus infected #network versus -the uninfected state.
Connecting the Virome and the Microbiome: New method uses 3C and sequencing to capture physical contacts between phages and bacterial hosts, addressing a fundamentally important question in the microbiome field https://t.co/v6JmNKkxLU
Ever wonder what happens to phages following an FMT? Lovely paper from @Lorr_Draper et al in the phage lab. Long-term colonisation with donor bacteriophages following successful faecal microbial transplantation https://t.co/TC11q6ZR4n