Ryan M. Imrie (he/him)

Woodcut of a Highland Cow (Ed Hutchinson, 2025). The highland cow is staring rather pugnaciously through a square frame, possibly because it is very keen to inform you that it is a member of a predominantly Scottish breed of cattle and that the bovine H5N1 outbreak under discussion is, in fact, currently confined to the mainland USA

If you don't pasteurise it, how long can H5N1 influenza viruses stay infectious for in milk?
We had a look at this in a new preprint with ‪@cvrinfo.bsky.social‬, @roslininstitute.bsky.social‬, ‪@pirbrightinst.bsky.social‬ & the APHA (1/N)
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

29.05.2025 10:18 — 👍 26    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 4

phylogeny of Drosophila species and barplots showing mean mortality to 4 bacterial pathogens and a control

First paper from @hongbo1900.bsky.social PhD "Varying phylogenetic signal in susceptibility to four bacterial pathogens across species of Drosophilidae" co-supervised by @benraymond.bsky.social and team
@hansonmark.bsky.social
@ryanmimrie.bsky.social
@sarahkwalsh.bsky.social sky.social

22.04.2025 11:03 — 👍 18    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1

Unbiased #microbio25 guide to day 3! Come along to Daniel Weir’s talk (14:45) on tunnelling microtubules induced by IAV 🔬; Maria Manali’s talk (16:15) on IAV & RSV coinfections inc. possible hybrid virus particles 🦠; and me (17:03) talking about cross-immunity and emergence of novel coronaviruses 📈

02.04.2025 08:18 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Just out "Making sense of the virome in light of evolution and ecology" doi.org/10.1098/rspb... from super ⭐ team @meganawallace.bsky.social @duckswabber.bsky.social @jemmageoghegan.bsky.social @ryanmimrie.bsky.social @eddieholmes.bsky.social @xavh.bsky.social in Proc B @royalsocietypublishing.org

02.04.2025 07:46 — 👍 52    🔁 22    💬 1    📌 2

And the day 2 talks #microbio25: Make sure you catch Verena Schultz's talk on equine ISGs affecting influenza viruses (14:45); Kieran Dee's talk on airway culture RNA virus coinfections (16:03); and Matt Turnbull's talk on H5N1 internal genes in bovines (16:51) 🤓🥼🦠

01.04.2025 09:31 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

A 100% unbiased guide to day 2 of #microbio25! The posters @12pm: Be sure to check out @sarahkwalsh.bsky.social poster on single cycle H5N1 viruses 🦠; Hanting Chen's poster on dogs as mixing vessels of IAVs 🐶; and Junsen Zhang's poster on inactivation of IAVs in milk through pasteurisation 🥛

01.04.2025 09:29 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Obligatory “on way to MicroSoc” announcement… #microbio25

..come see us presenting in the Antiviral Innate Immunity forum Kaitie Donovan on IFNs) and a poster on Wednesday (Aaron Canton Bastarrachea on flu environmental monitoring).

I will also be co-chairing the exciting Virosphere forum Wed pm!

01.04.2025 05:44 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Excited to be at my first @microbiologysociety.org annual conference with the Hutchinson Lab @socialinfluenza.bsky.social! Please come and find me at poster 005 (block A) if you want to talk about biosafe methods to study HPAIV H5N1 🦠

31.03.2025 16:56 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Very excited to be at my first #microbio2025 conference! If emerging infectious diseases, coronaviruses, adaptive immunity or epidemiological modelling interest you come see my talk in the Viruses: Adaptive Immunity session on Wednesday 👨‍⚕️🦠🔬

31.03.2025 16:59 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Post-pandemic changes in population immunity have reduced the likelihood of emergence of zoonotic coronaviruses Infections caused by endemic viruses, and the vaccines used to control them, often provide cross-protection against related viruses. This cross-protection has the potential to alter the transmission d...

Happily kicking off my Bluesky account with our new preprint exploring how post-pandemic shifts in immunity have changed the risk of future zoonotic coronavirus emergence.

Check it out here: 🔬📄
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to connect and discuss! #Virology #Epidemiology #Science

19.03.2025 13:33 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 2