@vjlab.bsky.social
Infectious diseases, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong
We would love feedback on a new NCBI-BLAST service we are launching today: sky-blast.com
Under the hood it's the same BLAST executable and databases provided by NCBI, with a replica of the NIH's interface - providing an alternative to the US gov service that's less congested, faster & more reliable
Screenshot of email stating "The subaward and the associated amounts listed above will need to be removed from the current and future year awards, and any other amounts budgeted for activities related to the Hong Kong research must also be removed. No rebudgeting of these funds is permitted, and no involvement or collaboration with researchers in Hong Kong or China is permitted in connection with the activities of this award, regardless of whether any funds are transferred," with the "no involvement" clause highlighted.
I received a surprising and disturbing request from NIH on Friday. They wrote to cancel a subaward to Hong Kong on one of my grants. (This was disturbing but not surprising.) They also ordered us not to interact with our collaborators in Hong Kong on any work under the award:
27.04.2025 19:26 β π 246 π 156 π¬ 12 π 9
Cambodia reports second fatal human #H5N1 case in 2025 in a 2 y/o child from Prey Veng province on Feb 25. Exposure to sick and dead chickens near his home.
#Avian #influenza remains a serious threat. Strengthening #OneHealth surveillance and response is critical. #BirdFlu
Seems population immunity should be useful for forecasting flu, right? Using cross-sectional, age-representative neutralizing titers measured in the summer of 2017 in Philly, we find that the clade to which we infer the greatest susceptibility dominated the next season. Even more, we found...
27.10.2023 16:06 β π 23 π 16 π¬ 2 π 0
Evolution of clade 2.3.4.4b HA genes and early migration patterns of resurgent HPAI
Our article 'The episodic resurgence of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5 virus' has been published in Nature. Please read the paper here: rdcu.be/doT6Y.
19.10.2023 04:23 β π 31 π 19 π¬ 1 π 0
Really excited to see our perspective piece on the different ways Omicron lineages have evolved over the last 1.5 years is out now! Really nice collaboration between variant trackers and academics (including a lot of the Pango team).
17.10.2023 08:41 β π 33 π 17 π¬ 4 π 0
Are you interested in SARS-CoV-2 evolution but struggle to recall the huge Omicron family tree (reminiscent of the Bible/Silmarillion: βHK.1 son of EG.5 son of XBB son of BA.2β)
Check this gorgeous Sankey diagram in @UKHSA bi-weekly variant update π€©
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Excited to see our investigation into the evidence that global sequencing data contains evidence of molnupiravir usage (including potential clusters of onward transmission) published today!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
