Jon Farrow

This is going to be a great event!

21.02.2025 15:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Cool new project alert! ⚡

Sequencing multiple respiratory viruses across two winters in the same year by working across hemispheres of the globe. 🌍

This is how we get prepared for the next pandemic.

10.02.2025 14:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A large group watching a panel discussion on the main stage of the Fesrival of Genomics.

Today’s highlight of the #FOG2025 was a panel featuring four leaders of incredible bioresources.

I might have expected they’d be competitors, but instead they’re colleagues with a shared mission.
@genomicsengland.bsky.social
@bioresourcencl.bsky.social
@ukbiobank.bsky.social
@Our Future Health

30.01.2025 19:10 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Fascinating to listen to @ewanharrison.bsky.social talk about the microbiome in your nose, and the technology that he’s developing with the @gsugenomics.bsky.social to bring down the cost of sequencing 20+ viruses from the same sample.

29.01.2025 12:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Adam Rutherford speaking at the festival of genomics to a packed crowd.

…Less good hearing that the twin study was founded by the Eugenecist Galton.

@adamrutherford.bsky.social with a tour-de-force on the “pernicious history” of our field at #FOG2025

Always important to remember the context of our work. Eugenics ideas are still around, not just from the past.

29.01.2025 10:54 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Tim Spector, founder of Zoe, talking about twin studies at the festival of genomics

As the father of twins, love hearing Tim Spector talk about how important twins are for understanding the interplay between genetics and environment at #FOG2025

@flgenomics.bsky.social

29.01.2025 10:16 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

A packed room at the festival of genomics, listening to a talk

At the Festival of Genomics with @gsugenomics.bsky.social today!

If you’re here and want to find out more about how the GSU is using genomics to improve global human health, let’s meet up!

#FOG2025 @flgenomics.bsky.social

29.01.2025 10:05 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

A consensus statement on dual purpose pathogen surveillance systems: The always on approach

We need "Always On" pathogen surveillance that lets us:

1) Stay prepared for the next pandemic

2) Save lives in the meantime by better targeting our response to threats like flu, RSV, malaria, dengue, etc.

journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

20.11.2024 16:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0