Tom Connor

From @torstenseemann.bsky.social at @pha4ge.bsky.social Conference; "We are stealing from research money to support public health."

We need dedicated funding for maintaining & supporting public health infrastructure & pipelines. Not just startup, not just in pandemics.

Excited to announce the start of ARTIC2! 🎉

ARTIC2 builds on the success of ARTIC aiming to make sequencing more equitable and accessible. 🤝🧬

EVE Group at @swisstph.ch is a key team member - we'll be helping make sequences easier to store and share via Loculus & @pathoplexus.org ! 🌎

More below! 👀👇🏻

Looks like a great course in a great location!

Lovely to be here in The Gambia - have had a fantastic couple of days doing training already with the ARTIC project; now for some discussions around public health genomics and cloud computing. Very pleased to have been able to help organise this and help set the scene this morning.

Applied Bioinformatics & Public Health Microbiology (21-23 May 2025) is open for registrations!
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Pandemics need to be killed in the cradle. Even though we don’t know if these mutations make H5N1 a pandemic virus, we know they raise the potential risk. Eliminating viruses with human adaptive mutations and preventing further adaptation should be the absolute top priority.

Global genomic diversity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in bronchiectasis Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the most common pathogen in the bronchiectasis lung, associated with worsened outcomes. P. aeruginosa genomic studies in this context have been limited to single-country, Eur...

Out now: genomics analysis of Pseudomonas in bronchiectasis — expanding geography & increasing 10-fold publicly-available genomes. High diversity between patients, key genes undergoing parallel evolution or diversification, differences & similarities to CF. www.journalofinfection.com/article/S016...

Also worth saying that when you get a mouse, is worth looking up what sort of a grip etc you use, as well as taking into account your hand size - again lots of gaming advice around that which is worth reading to get a comfy fit!

Logitech MX mechanical and MX master mouse! Though depends slightly on hand size etc. Can’t go back to a non-mechanical keyboard now! Otherwise have a look at a gaming keyboard and mouse - as these are often quite customisable in terms of their ergonomics!

Have to say, the difference in scientists posting etc here vs most of what I seemed to get on my feed over there is quite stark. The exodus from the other place is quite noticeable now.