Decoding Infection and Transmission

Revolutionizing infectious disease surveillance: Multi-omics technologies and AI-driven integration

Integrating #multiomics with #AI is transforming #InfectiousDisease surveillance and #pandemic preparedness, enabling outbreak prediction while raising bioinformatics and data-sharing challenges central to #OneHealth precision public health.

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📢 @snsf.ch Project Funding 2026 — Independent research projects

Covers research costs, staff salaries, and collaboration & dissemination activities

🧑‍💻 Online info event: 10 Feb 2026, 13:30–15:00 CEST
⏳ Submission deadline: 1 Apr 2026, 17:00 CEST

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Non academic (Cardiff, UK)
Advanced Epidemiological Data Scientist in infectious disease modelling and surveillance
at Public Health Wales
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2468

💉 Join the KEMRI_Kenya - Wellcome webinar: Vaccine Bioprocessing Overview – Upstream & Downstream Operation Steps

📅 12 Feb 2026
⏰ 2:00–3:30 PM EAT
💻 Online

Register here: shorturl.at/ZzfMx

NMCR-6, a novel nonmobile colistin resistance gene in Vibrio bacteria: full characterization and global perspective

This #DIT study identifies and characterizes NMCR-6, a novel nonmobile #Colistin resistance gene in Vibrio species, highlighting its global prevalence and the environmental determinants driving its clinical dissemination.
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Recurring diphtheria outbreaks in Nigeria: A holistic review of challenges, knowledge and strategic recommendations for control

This holistic review evaluates the multifaceted challenges of Nigeria's recurring #Diphtheria outbreaks and proposes strategic, evidence-based recommendations to curb the spread and enhance #PublicHealth resilience. #Epidemiology

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Postdoc (Fort Collins, USA)
RIsk assessment and response modeling of African swine fever in wild pigs
at @Colorado State University
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2467

Looking to build a foundational knowledge of #InfectiousDisease modelling?

Join our hybrid short course delivered by LSHTM and @ukhsa.bsky.social introducing key modelling tools and practical applications.

Runs from 15 - 26 June 2026

Apply by 15 May 2026👉 bit.ly/3bw2bWH

📢👩‍🔬 Call for Young Investigator Award Committee Members
⚠️ Closes Feb 9, 2026

🌍 The 75th ASTMH Annual Meeting brings together global leaders in tropical medicine & global health
📅 Nov 18–22, 2026 | 📍 Maryland, USA

More details: shorturl.at/GIhdH

Mosquitoes as pesticide disseminators: Advancing pyriproxyfen-based technologies for next-generation vector control

#Pyriproxyfen is a low-toxicity #InsectGrowthRegulator disrupting mosquito development, with dissemination stations and boosted sterile/incompatible techniques helping fight #InsecticideResistance and strengthen global #VectorControl.
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Genome-wide identification of characteristic nucleotide fragments for surveillance and subtype typing of influenza A viruses

Conserved and subtype-specific nucleotide fragments across #InfluenzaAvirus genomes enable accurate rapid detection & HA-based subtyping via #multiplexPCR, providing a scalable framework for #MolecularSurveillance & diagnostic assay development.

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Funding: First and Next Generation scholarships.

📣Scholarship opportunity📣

@lshtm.bsky.social is offering a range of widening participation scholarships to tackle barriers to further education.

🎓Next Gen Scholarships - home students, on-campus.

🎓LSHTM First Gen Scholarship - distance learning MSc.

⏰Deadline 27 March 26

Apply👉 bit.ly/4qhlurn

CLOSING SOON: Postdoc (London, United Kingdom)
Research Assistant or Associate in Viral Computational Genomics
with @nfaria.bsky.social
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2451

🌍 Join the Global Malaria & Gender CoP Q1 webinar on Malaria Funding Cuts & Child Mortality and why gender-responsive malaria interventions matter

📅 5 Feb 2026
⏰ 14:00 GMT
💻 Online

Convened by the Centre for Advocacy Studies, University of Ghana

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Sexual development in apicomplexan parasites: past and future

This review highlights progress in #SexualDevelopment of #ApicomplexanParasites—spanning #gametogenesis, #fertilization, and infective stages—while outlining future work in #HostInteractions, and transmission-blocking targets.
#IDSky #EpiSky

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World malaria report 2025: Growing biological threats, shrinking resources

This commentary examines the World Malaria Report 2025, revealing a persistent high incidence and noting how rising biological resistance & stagnant funding threaten to reverse decades of progress in global malaria eradication. @unistra.fr
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5 weeks left to submit your abstract if you would like to present at the UK VBD Conference 2026 in Liverpool! forms.cloud.microsoft/e/j9hjJbCnRS

⏰Last call to register for the Global Health EDCTP3 Info Day 2026!

If you are planning to apply to the 2026 calls for proposals, take advantage of this opportunity and register.

🗓️ 5 February 2026
🕘 9:00-13:00 CET
🖥️ Online

🔗 Register: www.global-health-edctp3.europa.eu/events/globa...

#InfoDay26

📢 Call for Applications: Postdoctoral fellowship programme

EMBL invites applications for the EIPOD-LinC Fellowship Programme—a fully funded 3-year postdoctoral fellowship supporting interdisciplinary research worldwide 🌐

🗓️ Deadline: 2 Feb 2026
🔗 Apply here 👉 shorturl.at/M5vtK

Decoding the Bite: Sensory cues, host heterogeneity, and pathogen manipulation in mosquito host-seeking behavior

This review describes the multi-modal sensory mechanisms driving mosquito host-seeking behavior, while elucidating how physiological traits & #Pathogen-induced #VOC manipulations create heterogeneous biting patterns.
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Genomic insights into disease vectors: Divergent evolution of mosquitoes, tsetse flies, sand flies and kissing bugs

This review highlights how #genomic architecture shapes the capacity of #InsectVectors— #mosquitoes, #TsetseFlies, sand flies, and #kissingbugs—to transmit pathogens, revealing differences in genome size, immune pathways, and symbiotic adaptations.
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📢 Call for a postdoctoral position in virology

📍 Institute of Virology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria
🕘 5 years | Full-time
📅 Starting 1 April 2026

🔗 Apply: virologie.i-med.ac.at/postdoctoral...

#CapacityStrengthening @geroldlab.bsky.social

Postdoc (Stanford, USA)
Modeling neglected tropical diseases (particularly schistosomiasis) and public health control strategies
with Nathan Lo
at Stanford University
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2464

Save the Date!

Trends in the minimum inhibitory concentrations for four agents against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in bloodstream infections in China: a 6-year multi-center study from 2017 to 2022

This multicenter study identified a significant longitudinal trend of decreased #Vancomycin sensitivity with improved #Linezolid susceptibility, providing critical regional insights into the evolving #AntibioticResistance landscape of #MRSA.
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📢 @who.int EPI-WIN #webinar:
#Zika: ten years after the public health emergency 🦟

Date: 2 February 2026 13:00 – 14:30 CET (Virtual meeting)

www.who.int/news-room/ev...

Nipah virus disease cases reported in West Bengal, India: very low risk for Europeans Based on current information, the risk of infection for people from Europe travelling to or residing in the area is assessed as very low.

🌍 Nipah virus cases in India: ECDC highlights very low risk for Europe.

Based on current information, we assess the risk of infection for people from Europe travelling to or residing in the area as very low.

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#IDsky #EpiSky #PublicHealth #Nipah #ECDC

🦠 Call for Applications: Advancing innovation against infectious diseases

🔬 Global Health EDCTP3 offers a 3-year leadership training for mid-career biomedical & clinical researchers from sub-Saharan Africa

🗓️ Deadline: 1 Feb 2026

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World Neglected Tropical diseases Day

On World Neglected Tropical diseases Day, #DIT underscores the need to integrate sustainable interventions into healthcare, ensuring equitable access to diagnostics and therapeutics.

For articles on NTD: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/deco...

Circadian rhythm of mosquitoes: Blood feeding and disease transmission

The SEIVR model enhances the traditional #SEIR framework by adding a “vulnerable” compartment, accurately predicting cases, #hospitalizations, and recoveries to better guide #PublicHealth planning and resource allocation.
#IDSky #EpiSky #ImmunoSky

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