Group Leader @RoslinInstitute. Interested in avian genomics - host responses to viral infections and environmental adaptation 🐥
Joined June 2018
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Jacqueline Smith retweeted
22 May 2025
📣New Research Topic open for submission!
Accepting manuscripts on topics related to host innate immune responses to avian- and bat-borne viruses.
Led by Dr. Efstathios Giotis (University of Essex), Jacqueline Smith (Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh) and Xing-Yi Ge (Hunan University).
➡️See more and submit: fro.ntiers.in/iCWk
🗓️Deadline: 29th October 2025
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Congratulations to all co-authors on publication of this paper investigating regions of the chicken genome potentially involved in HPAI resistance #chicken #flu #HPAI #H5N2 @roslininstitute @MDPIOpenAccess mdpi.com/1422-0067/25/18/100…
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A single nuclei study of chicken immune organs. Now on #BioRxiv. A great genomics resource - congratulations to all authors 🐔
doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.05.6…
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Jacqueline Smith retweeted
5 Jun 2024
H5N1 Is Increasingly Adapting to Mammals
New preprint "shows clear mammal-to-mammal transmission of the virus."
Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
UC Davis report:
ucdavis.edu/health/news/h5n1…
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24 May 2024
A genome assembly for the Lapland Longspur is now available in NCBI: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/ge…
#avian #genome #NCBI @wzuhou @SimoneMeddle @krausejs
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Delighted to announce that a new @nf_core preprint manuscript has just gone live!
A collaboration with @EuroFaang, the paper covers updates to @nextflowio and @nf_core, and describes the experience of the @EuroFaang adopted @nf_core.
Let's dive in...🧵
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25 Mar 2024
I am co-editing a Special Issue in Applied Sciences entitled 'Applied Genomics and Bioinformatics for the Poultry Industry'.
If you have a suitable paper, then please consider publishing here.
Deadline: 20th September 2024
mdpi.com/journal/applsci/spe…
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8 Feb 2024
An excellent review of avian chromosome evolution @darrenkgriffin
doi.org/10.3390/cells1304031…
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Jacqueline Smith retweeted
7 Feb 2024
We are hiring - job vacancy in Edinburgh Genomics lab. Come and join the amazing team here. Click link for more details
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26 Jan 2024
Congratulations to @RachmanMifta on her very nice paper on selective sweep analysis of heat stress in Nigerian chickens @OlivierHanotte @TadelleD and Almas and Oladeji #chicken #heatstress #genome
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Jacqueline Smith retweeted
24 Jan 2024
Last week to apply...
24 Jan 2024
Interested in the disease ecology of avian influenza in seabird populations around the UK? First of two post-docs to join our ECOFLU project now live. Get in touch for full info. Closing date 31st January edin.ac/41waifC
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18 Jan 2024
The white crowned sparrow genome is now available! Congratulations to @wzuhou and all co-authors @SimoneMeddle @KasiaMiedzinska @krausejs @J_H_Perez #johnwingfield #scientificreports #sparrow #genome
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23 Dec 2023
Congratulations to colleagues on their publication highlighting the importance of promoter regions during duck domestication #duck #genomics @BMCBiology
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Jacqueline Smith retweeted
22 Dec 2023
Selection on the promoter regions plays an important role in complex traits during duck domestication dlvr.it/T0TPHg
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Jacqueline Smith retweeted
15 Dec 2023
Ancient DNA reveals how a chicken virus evolved to become more deadly | University of Oxford ox.ac.uk/news/2023-12-15-anc…
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