Bioinformatics, phylogenetics, open science, coding, bikes and cycling, ranting. I no longer post here - find me @bljog.bsky.social
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Joseph Hughes retweeted
📢 After 14 years of successful leadership, Prof Massimo Palmarini has stepped down as CVR Director.
Prof Emma Thomson, a leading expert in emerging infectious diseases, will act as Interim Director, continuing the CVR’s vital work in virus research.
🔗 gla.ac.uk/news/headline_1146…
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Joseph Hughes retweeted
17 Jan 2025
As a @WOAH Collaborating Centre, we’re excited to announce our 8th annual Viral #Bioinformatics & #Genomics training course, starting 16 June 2025! 🧬@CVRinfo.
📅 Register by 30 April:
👉 bit.ly/VBGCourse2025
📲 Or scan the QR code to join.
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Joseph Hughes retweeted
16 Jan 2025
“It is really hard for infectious diseases to effectively stop being specialists and move over into a new species. So, when that happens, it is striking and concerning”— Microbiology Society member, Ed Hutchinson, in the Guardian yesterday buff.ly/4hfxPrU
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6 Nov 2024
Our @NorthWestBio1 PhD project applying natural language processing to virology literature is now open for applications: gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/docto…
Get in touch with if you are interested and want to find out more.
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Joseph Hughes retweeted
29 Sep 2024
Countries neighboring Rwanda still need to know which are the 7 of the 30 districts in Rwanda that report Marburg. Although cases centered in Kigali among ICU staff, it still matters whether any cases reported near DRC, Burundi, Tanzania, or Uganda afro.who.int/countries/rwand…
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Joseph Hughes retweeted
26 Sep 2024
Unveiling Expansion in situ genome sequencing: a revolutionary leap in spatial genomics! ExIGS enables simultaneous nanoscale mapping of gDNA and proteins in single cells.
It's been an incredible journey co-leading this work with @z_chiang , @CarolineComenho , @JD_Buenrostro
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14 Sep 2024
Wouldn't it be nice to have a beautiful street art on Sinclair drive to inspire the kids walking to @BattlefieldPS and the toddlers in @SinclairNursery
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Joseph Hughes retweeted
10 Jul 2024
Our new preprint showing how protein language models (PLMs) can help us understand viral proteins is now available! We used ESM-2 to investigate what PLMs know about the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein from a single sequence to evolutionary trajectories.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Joseph Hughes retweeted
24 Jun 2024
Welcome speech from @CVRinfo director Prof. Palmarini for our 7th Annual Viral Bioinformatics course. We enjoyed BBQ🍖🔥
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Joseph Hughes retweeted
28 Jun 2024
Our viral #Bioinformatics course has come to an end! 🎉@CVRinfo This year we had 17 participants from Europe/Asia/Africa/Americas🌍.Thank you all! Also thanks to all instructors on the courses : @blJOg @SrikeerthanaK @DerekCVR @RichardJOrton @vbsreenu @QuanGuCVR @robertson_lab
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Joseph Hughes retweeted
5 Jun 2024
Last couple days to apply for our Research Assistant/Associate role working on NLP for cancer mutations. Come work with us @GlasgowCS! jobs.ac.uk/job/DHO579/resear…
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Joseph Hughes retweeted
Discover how to apply #bioinformatics to answer biologically relevant viral questions!
Join the global #virology community in-person to exchange knowledge & present your research at #VGE24
📅 Dates: 6-8 November
📎 Find out more & join the mailing list: bit.ly/3QZwjiL
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Joseph Hughes retweeted
30 May 2024
Today we celebrate the first #InternationalDayOfPotato!
Recognising the importance of the crop in addressing environmental threats to #agrifood systems 🥔🌟
Our research has produced #potatoes more resilient to drought, disease and climate change.
More: bit.ly/4bDNRcO
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Joseph Hughes retweeted
29 May 2024
A little under 1 week left to apply for these posts, so if working in a busy and growing #cryoem facility sounds like your thing, get in touch! The portal closes on 4th June, 23:45 UK time
8 May 2024
We are on the hunt for 3 cryo-EM scientists to work across all aspects of the facility. If you're interested in working in a cryo-EM facility, helping users, delivering training and growing our facility, please check out our positions. Deadline: 4th June gla.ac.uk/research/az/cvr/fa…
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Joseph Hughes retweeted
21 May 2024
Come work with us 🦠🛜💻👇
21 May 2024
Still time to apply for our HPC Sys admin post to support our bioinformatics & computational biology research @CVRbioinfo in @CVRinfo & @BiottofnI @UofGSii. Application deadline extended to 29th May, gla.ac.uk/research/az/cvr/ab… apply here gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/ -vacancy ref 144330
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Joseph Hughes retweeted
20 May 2024
Identification of a potential genotype 9 of HCV (but need more sequences!). This one from patient in Guyana academic.oup.com/jid/advance…
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Joseph Hughes retweeted
13 May 2024
Vertebrate genomes contain millions of DNA sequences derived from ancient viruses.
In work published today in Genome Biology, we provide a panoramic overview of these endogenous viral elements.
shorturl.at/eGLX7
#Evolution #Virology #Genomics
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