It's go time!
MsEE LabA year on from our inaugural State of the Lab post, the lab is revving up and getting ready to go. Now it’s time to do some research! mseelab.substack.com/p/brewing-re...
🦠 🧬 🇨🇴 • pathogens + evo + synbio + modeling • prof and lab leader at @mseelab.org • banner pic by Melanconnie
A study I regularly circle back 2 from Dr. Pablo Cardenas-Ramirez, PI of @mseelab.org. Just now making use of the amazing computational tool (Opqua) that it introduces. With it, 1 can model fitness landscape scale ?s (e.g. valley crossing) @ the host-parasite scale www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Tetsu is an incredible scientist, mentor, and all-around person—can't recommend this lab enough. So stoked to be neighbors and get projects rolling!
Tetsuhiro HarimotoI’ll be starting a lab as an Assistant Professor at Cornell @cornellengineering.bsky.social in 2026! We’ll combine synthetic biology and materials science to engineer microbes into living materials & therapies. We're recruiting PhD students & postdocs - please get in touch! 🔗 harimotolab.com
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Noémie LefrancqIncredibly excited to share that our manuscript was just published in @nature.com ! What a way to start the new year! 🎉 https://buff.ly/4gyYCzx We present phylowave, a framework that enables to learn the fitness dynamics of pathogens from phylogenies. 🧵 A thread... 1/n #IDSky #IDModelling
Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository. (The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)
Building on the UShER tree of millions of SARS-CoV-2 genomes maintained by Angie Hinrichs, Hugh Haddox and Georg Angehrn (and others in @matsen.bsky.social lab and @jbloomlab.bsky.social) have looked into how the neutral mutation rate varies along the genome: [1/N] www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Tears In Rain Episode 5 is live!!! I hung out with @daniellebeckman.bsky.social where she told us about her experiences as a student in Brazil that shaped her current interests in viruses inside the human brain. I hope you enjoy! Please like and subscribe for more! youtu.be/27AtqcYNHa8
Really proud to share our preprint describing early adaptation of H5N1 to US dairy cattle, and showing how these mutations enhance the ability of the virus to infect other mammals, such as pigs and humans. With @influenzal.bsky.social @vidhid.bsky.social @drclairesmith.bsky.social and many more!
I’m pleased to share that we FINALLY submitted our latest manuscript on SARS-CoV-2 cryptic lineages and what they tell us about the origins of COVID-19. This was a ton of work. medrxiv.org/cgi/content/... 1/
It is that time of the year again when @odedrechavi.bsky.social and I do our annual “your favorite paper of the year” thread. Now only on Bluesky! Please link to your favorite paper in the comments and say a few words why you loved it so much. Happy holidays and happy reading!
I’ve updated SARSCoV2 RBD antibody-escape calculator w new deep mutational scanning data of Yunlong Cao & Fanchong Jian. My interpretation: antigenic evolution currently constrained by pleiotropic effects of mutations on RBD-ACE2 affinity, RBD up-down position & antibody neutralization