@wellcometrust PhD @UofG_IIB @UofG_SBOHVM | Investigating pathogens at #wildlifelivestock #marineterrestrial interfaces🦇🦭in 🇵🇪 | Wildlife vet | Rhino fan🦏
Joined March 2019
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7 Jul 2025
Breaking my Twitter silence to share a great PhD opportunity I'm co-supervising at @UofGSBOHVM. Funded project on rewilding, ticks & zoonotic disease risk across Scotland 🇬🇧 and the Italian Alps 🇮🇹
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I-Ting Tu retweeted
24 Mar 2025
🦠 Bird Flu Update: New research highlights evolving risks of bird flu, including potential impacts on pets and the virus's ability to mutate. Stay informed and take the necessary precautions to protect your furry friends. 🐱🚨
Read more with the link in our bio!
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I-Ting Tu retweeted
22 Mar 2025
🎉PhDone!!*🎉 This week marks the end of 4 fab years at @UofGlasgow ! Feel very fortunate to have worked with so many excellent people in
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Papers on marine mammal viruses and modelling of host tropism incoming! 🐋 🦠 🦭 🧬
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I-Ting Tu retweeted
18 Mar 2025
Come do a PhD with me using LLMs and comparative methods to understand the emergence of companion animal viruses! 🧠☠️🕸️🐕🐈🖥️
Fully funded 3.5 year PhD based at @UofGSBOHVM
@CVRinfo supervised by myself, Margaret Hosie, and Willie Weir
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Our paper is out🦇🦠
🦇 Understanding bat flu and the risks it carries
@Megan3Griffiths, @DanielStreicker & colleagues reveal how flu spreads in vampire bats, highlighting potential risks for cross-species transmission and future outbreaks.
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I-Ting Tu retweeted
16 Jan 2025
We're recruiting a lab technican to carry out virus pseudotype assays, PCRs and epigenetic ageing of bats to support a #wellcome funded project on bat rabies. Apply by 12 Feb! jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research-… @CVRinfo @UofGSBOHVM @BatsGoViral
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I-Ting Tu retweeted
18 Dec 2024
Mortality of Elephant Seals, pengiuns, and albatross in the Kerguelen and Crozet archipelago confirmed as HPAI. This constitutes a substantial range expansion for the virus. Looking forward to seeing the genome sequences.
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Really enjoyed the first day of the Influenza Update Meeting at @UofGlasgow! 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 @CVRHutchinson
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One thing I love about my fieldwork is that I got to meet generous people who helped us collect hair of their animals so I have a better idea of what the🦇 feed on. I’ll be back in touch with them once I analyse the samples! Ofc this couldn’t be done without my brilliant team!
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I-Ting Tu retweeted
23 Apr 2024
🚨 We have outlined some recommendations around selecting diagnostic assays for HPAI in the Antarctic setting as this will influence interpretation of results, as exemplified by our concerns around whether HPAI was present in apparently health penguins.
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I-Ting Tu retweeted
18 Apr 2024
Given all the interest in dairy cattle, I've added relevant documents, reports, updates, papers (new and old) to my HPAI resource page
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I-Ting Tu retweeted
🦇 New publication explores self-spreading vaccines to protect wildlife from deadly pathogens such as rabies.
@Megan3Griffiths explains the complex interdisciplinary work behind this innovative technology.
Article: gla.ac.uk/research/az/cvr/en…
Paper: science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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I-Ting Tu retweeted
18 Apr 2024
Cattle are, of course, the central reservoir for influenza D viruses (a different virus species). Lots of scope for interesting work still to be done on influenza viruses in cattle.
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I-Ting Tu retweeted
15 Apr 2024
I’m still accepting applications for this PhD on bat virus dynamics in Neotropical bats until end of April. Please RT!
2 Apr 2024
i'm recruiting for a new PhD student at @UofOklahoma to conduct field and theoretical studies of bat virus dynamics, focused on molossids in Belize! see below and our lab website for more information and how to apply: beckerlab.weebly.com/join.ht…
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I-Ting Tu retweeted
14 Apr 2024
While the biggest impact has been on pinnipeds, and dairy cattle are all the rage currently, this graph really demonstrates the diversity of mammals which have been infected with HPAI to date. Detailed data in the @EFSA_EU quarterly reports.
13 Apr 2024
Interesante revisión sobre influenza aviar en fauna silvestre, recién publicada 👉 avmajournals.avma.org/view/j… @Bureli
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I-Ting Tu retweeted
7 Apr 2024
This is the 2nd study reporting prospecting (i.e. visiting other colonies) in Northern gannets from colonies affected by highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). Breeding gannets are not known to prospect. They usually only move between their nest and the sea where they feed...
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Back to the field! Opened a barbershop for the bats 💈a question popped up from my last field trip - does diet (🦭vs 🐖) affect vampire bat stress level? We need a good amount of hair for both stable isotopes and cortisol analyses - a dog paw trimmer turned out to be very useful!
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I-Ting Tu retweeted
26 Mar 2024
Good to see this pre-print now published. Excellent description of HPAI spread in sea lions of south america - down the pacific coast, and back up the Atlantic coast. Huge impact on these animals.
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