Raphaëlle K

A targeted amplicon sequencing panel for cost-effective high-throughput genotyping of Aedes aegypti The mosquito Aedes aegypti is the primary vector for several medically significant arboviruses, including dengue, Zika, chikungunya, and yellow fever. Studying the genetic diversity of Ae. aegypti is ...

🚨 New preprint alert! We have developed a targeted amplicon sequencing panel for Aedes aegypti. We believe it is a powerful and cost-effective tool for studying #mosquito #population #genetics. Curious how it matches up to WGS? Check out our preprint to find out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I don't know if this is just a reflection of the times that we find ourselves in, but our Research Programmer position received just under a thousand applications (984, to be precise!) in the first week of posting - we had to pull it down as a result...

The Postdoc position is still open!

@cnrsecologie.bsky.social regrette profondément l'adoption de cette loi à la vision court-termiste & ses conséquences graves sur l’environnement, qui méprise santé & bien-être de la population & le rôle des espèces sauvages dans la prod. agricole. La communauté scientifique n'a pas été entendue.

About - Andersen Lab Learn more about the Andersen Lab, as well as jobs and career opportunities.

Are you looking for a Postdoc or Research Programmer position? Want to work as part of highly collaborative infectious disease programs that have direct relevance to global health?

Well, we got you covered!

Learn more 👇

andersen-lab.com/about/

Aedes albopictus (asian tiger mosquito)

🦟 Bioinformatics Research Scientist position open in my lab in Nice (FR) to study Aedes mosquito retrotransposons & their interactions with arboviruses collab w/ @salehlabparis.bsky.social & @lambrechtslab.bsky.social
Apply: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/359830
Please boost! #ArboRetro #Bioinformatics

Exclusive: NIH suspends dozens of pathogen studies over ‘gain-of-function’ concerns Trump executive order leads to pauses on U.S.-funded research into TB, influenza, COVID-19, and other diseases, dismaying some scientists

“The studies targeted by NIH include both relatively low-risk, routine work and higher risk experimentation that is essential for developing new drugs and vaccines, several researchers told ScienceInsider”
🧪 #IDsky
www.science.org/content/arti...

WHO panel favors natural origin of COVID-19 virus but decries missing evidence New report doesn’t rule out that SARS-CoV-2 leaked from a lab in China, but says evidence for scenario remains “speculation”

Le comité SAGO de l'OMS a publié un rapport de 78 pages sur l'origine de la pandémie de Covid-19.
Il y a déjà beaucoup d'approximations et même de désinformation dessus. Pour un résumé honnête et instructif, lisez la référence journalistique sur le sujet, Jon Cohen dans Science

In 2019, NIAID proposed an ambitious scientific network focused on pandemic preparedness, research, and response - the "CREID Network".

Ten centers kicked off just as the pandemic was taking off, playing critical roles throughout.

We were just notified the whole network is terminated.

Reason? 👇

Super happy to see the communication of the wonderful team of the french NRC in Réunion island on the current CHIKV epidemic out today ! #IDSky
Highlights on the epidemic lineage:
-ECSA-2
-linked to central African strains
-E1-A226V
-emergence in early August 2024

For more details 👇👇

Genomic epidemiology of Mpox virus in Sierra Leone This post has been updated to include new sequences, new analysis, and revised estimates. Background Sierra Leone confirmed its first Mpox case on January 10, 2025, with the Minister of Health declar...

We have updated estimates for the Mpox outbreak in Sierra Leone. We estimate that the G.1 lineage started to diversify in SL around 16 November, suggesting 1-2 months of circulation before detection. G.1's estimated growth corresponds to a doubling time of ~2 weeks: virological.org/t/genomic-ep...

The spread of Mpox in Sierra Leone is unlike anything we have ever seen - and we have been keeping an eye on this bug in the region for >15 years.

Given geographical spread, 50/50 men vs women, this is no "sexual network".

This could be the next one.

clt.npha.gov.sl/outbreak.aspx

An important reminder that measles vaccines save millions of lives every year across the world.

The measles vaccine is arguably the most life-saving vaccine in use.

Our latest article from @scientificdiscovery.dev and @spoonerf.bsky.social: ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...

Our consortium's paper on Mpox in West Africa is finally out today: "Genomics reveals zoonotic and sustained human Mpox spread in West Africa" rdcu.be/emGKq. Extremely fortunately to get to work with such an exceptional team of African public health scientists, and our partners!

Mosquito-borne viral disease sweeping Indian Ocean islands Safety issues with the only available vaccine complicates response to chikungunya

Mosquito-borne viral disease sweeping Indian Ocean islands | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

#CDC reports that as of 5/8, there have been 1001 confirmed measles cases in 31 jurisdictions. There have been 14 outbreaks (≥3 cases) so far in 2025 & 93% of the total confirmed cases are linked to one of the outbreaks.
13% of these cases have needed hospital care. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...

Historic pandemic treaty is a triumph in a world being torn apart Global agreement on a pandemic preparedness plan came against all the odds. Now all parties must follow good intentions with concrete actions.

Global agreement on a pandemic preparedness plan came against all the odds. Now all parties must follow good intentions with concrete actions.

https://go.nature.com/44NmE6F

We're looking for a PhD student to join us at Vilnius University in Lithuania. We work on RNA virus evolution computationally but we'd like to generate more mosquito RNA virus sequence data. Official ad: www.gmc.vu.lt/en/doctoral-.... Please share & continue reading if interested.

Perspective on Immunological drivers of zoonotic virus emergence, evolution, and endemicity, written with some of my favourite people. Read it before its thoughtcrime! authors.elsevier.com/c/1ks2e3qNrU...

US map via scienceimpacts.org visualization of economic loss due to IDC cuts to 15% as part of Feb 7, 2025 executive order, with shading denoting intensity of cuts.

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.

Find out how your community may be impacted.

Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org

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If even Jeffrey Goldberg is saying "there's too much preemptive obeying for my taste" then the winds are indeed shifting.

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump » Le ministre de la recherche a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant que son or...

French researcher, going to a conference in Houston, was forbidden entry to US; his work and personal electronics were both confiscated.

Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Opinion | We Were Badly Misled About Covid (Gift Article) The same dangerous mistakes. The same lack of candor.

Well worth a read. Not because of the content - it's total horseshit - but because it's a prime example of what happens when you mix anti-science, conspiracism, arrogance, and a total lack of expertise.

Maybe one day NYT OpEds will engage with the actual science 🤷‍♂️.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...

Do you know what’s great about vaccines? We can stop outbreaks in the first place, so we don’t have to discuss half-witted hypotheticals about the precise circumstances we’d rather have kids exposed to a deadly, disabling virus…

Today marks the beginning of OpenRxiv, which replaces bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world's largest preprint platform for life and medical science
openrxiv.org/introducing-...
@openrxiv.bsky.social

Frustrating to see science communicators posting videos about how a person with measles infects 18 others on average, without mentioning this is in a *fully unvaccinated* population.

Measles can spread quickly in under vaccinated pockets of the population, but we don’t need to overstate risk.

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A 4-Year-Old Boy Dies of Ebola in Uganda as U.S. Pulls Back on Help The Trump administration has canceled at least four of the five contracts with organizations that helped manage the outbreak in Uganda.

Claims that Uganda's #Ebola outbreak was under control appear to have been premature. This child's family sought care in 3 hospitals before he died. So more cases will likely follow. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/h...

US shutdown of HIV/Aids funding ‘could lead to 500,000 deaths in South Africa’ Cuts could result in 500,000 deaths over the next 10 years in the country, research suggests

US shutdown of HIV/Aids funding ‘could lead to 500,000 deaths in South Africa’: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

When an epidemic hits, how long does it take to get going with common epidemic analysis tasks?

A couple of weeks ago, we asked representatives from over a dozen UK organisations and universities who work actively on epidemic analysis and modelling how long the below tasks would take them....

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WHO Africa has shared info on the unidentified illness in DRC in its weekly bulletin.

It highlights the “significant public health threat” and “urgent action needed”.

As of 15 Feb, 419 cases and 45 deaths (CFR 10.7%) identified.

Ebola and Marburg have been ruled out.