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Congratulations to UCL’s Dr Gemma Murray on receiving a prestigious Wellcome Career Development Award, recognising her pioneering research into bacterial evolution and antimicrobial resistance. @ugiatucl.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

Gemma Murray awarded prestigious Wellcome Career Development AwardDr Gemma Murray has been awarded a Wellcome Career Development Award to lead pioneering research into the hidden role of commensal bacteria in antimicrobial resistance (AMR).www.ucl.ac.uk

Here it is, your jam packed schedule for The Cosmic Shambles Forest at this year’s Latitude Festival. Two stages of science, comedy, music, poetry and more, a Museum Street and vendors to explore plus other Shambles shows around the festival. Download the Latitude app for any last minute changes!

Fascinating talk ahead: Dr @lucyvandorp.bsky.social on recovering ancient DNA from mummies, museum collections & even Jeremy Bentham’s auto-icon — and what it reveals about disease, migration & evolution.

#ICP2026 Stockholm is over, but ICP will return... in 2028! #ICP2028 will be hosted by Trinity College Dublin 🎉☘️🇮🇪

Congratulations to PhD Student Cameron Ferguson for winning the best presentation at the annual postgraduate research symposium for his talk on "The Genomic Landscape of Post-Black Death Epidemics in Northern Europe and the Caucasus".

We are advertising a PhD studentship to study the effects of mitochondrial function on cell motility in flies. The project is supervised by myself, Nick Lane and @fcamus.bsky.social, in collaboration with Anna Franz at UCL, @stramerlab.bsky.social at KCL and Michael Sixt at ISTA. Please repost!

UCL’s Lunch Hour Lectures are returning with a fascinating deep dive into ancient DNA. Dr @lucyvandorp.bsky.social will explain how genetic traces from mummies, museum objects and even Bentham’s auto‑icon are reshaping our understanding of human history and disease. www.ucl.ac.uk/events/event...

Bentham and Beyond: Learning through Genomes, Collections and CollaborationsIn this lecture, Dr Lucy van Dorp will discuss ancient DNA research, including how DNA is recovered from historical objects such as Jeremy Bentham.www.ucl.ac.uk

S13: Perspectives on paleo-omics: defining functional evolution of ancient viruses in the era of big data 🗓️ Wed Jul 1, 1:20pm 🔗 smbe2026.org/programme

Wonderful UCL Genetics Institute away day at the @nhm.org. A chance to hear exciting research updates, discuss and debate. Thank you to all speakers and organisers.

After 15 years of reporting on infectious disease outbreaks, what continues to fascinate me about them is the challenge of making high-stakes decisions under uncertainty. The hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius is a perfect example My story in @science.org is here (and a thread to come): 🧪 #IDsky

What to do with the passengers on the cruise ship hit by hantavirus?Past studies of Andes virus offer scant evidence on transmission risks, and have sparked debatewww.science.org

A nice way to kick-off the weekend! Just saw that our @molbioevol.bsky.social paper was published! 🎉 Congrats to Finley Grover-Thomas for doing an amazing job, and massive thanks to co-supervisor @aidaandres.bsky.social, and collabs @lucyvandorp.bsky.social @proffballoux.bsky.social!! 🥳

Young children who attend nursery get sick more often than those who don’t, but will have fewer illnesses during early school years, finds a new review of evidence by parent-scientists including Dr @lucyvandorp.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social and Dr Leo Swadling @uclmedsci.bsky.social

Frequent infections in nursery help toddlers build up immune systemsYoung children who attend nursery get sick more often than those who don’t, but they will go on to have fewer illnesses during early school years, finds a new review of evidence by a group of parent-s...www.ucl.ac.uk

Have you ever wondered why children starting nursery/daycare pick up so many germs? I certainly did, and with a crack team of parent-scientists/clinicians, we set out to answer that question. Is childcare a germ factory or an immune bootcamp? journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Germ factories or immune boot camps? Infection and immunity in childcare settings | Clinical Microbiology ReviewsSUMMARYChildcare outside the home is a common experience for many children in high-income countries. It is associated with an increase in the incidence of infectious diseases—not just for the child bu...journals.asm.org

Come join us! We are looking for a Professor or Associate Professor of Computational Genomics in Health and Disease at University College London. Details 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Post funded by UCL Health Strategy.

"These viruses have been co-evolving with human populations for well over 2,000 years, underscoring a deep, ongoing shared history between virus and host”: Dr @lucyvandorp.bsky.social on her ancient DNA analysis of human herpes viruses @ugiatucl.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

First ancient human herpesvirus genomes document their deep history with humansAnalysis of ancient DNA has confirmed that certain human herpesviruses became part of the human genome thousands of years ago, in a study involving a UCL researcher.www.ucl.ac.uk

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... It's finally out! Meriam Guellil expertly led this project from the first HHV6 detection to the final paper. We found both human herpesviruses 6A and 6B in ancient remains going back 2500 years.

Tracing 2500 years of human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B diversity through ancient DNAFirst ancient HHV-6 genomes reveal 2500 years of phylogenetic continuity and provide insights into the endogenization of HHV-6A.www.science.org

Reconstructing the histories of ancient pathogens with @poojaswali.bsky.social of @ugiatucl.bsky.social at the @lien-london.bsky.social meeting. Makes me want to learn every one of these stories!

PhD candidate Cedric Tan from @ucl.ac.uk @ugiatucl.bsky.social is exploring how pathogens and antimicrobial resistance jump between species, supported by a scholarship from A*STAR Singapore and @astar-gis.bsky.social. #UCLSingapore #UCLHealth www.ucl.ac.uk/global/case-...

The 2026 EMBL symposium 'Reconstructing the human past using ancient and modern genomics' is live with a fantastic invited speaker lineup! Abstract deadline 9 June. If work is ongoing, plan for Heidelberg in September😉. Organised by Maanasa Raghavan, @matejahajdi.bsky.social, Choongwon Jeong & me.

Great to have Dr Hrushikesh Loya give a fantastic talk on his tool Ghostbusters: A Genome-Wide Genealogical Approach to Uncovering Hidden Admixture Events in Human Evolution 👻