Tagged: flu virus

Monday micro – evolution in action! - Infectious Thoughts

Siouxsie Wiles • Dec 16, 2013 •

• e coli,
• evolution,
• flu virus,
• H7N9,
• Nature,
• Patreon,
• PLoS,
• Rebecca Watson,
• Salvation Army

This week’s Monday Micro is all about microbial adaptation, with two interesting new papers just out. The first relates to the H7N9 strain of bird flu that appeared in China earlier this year; as of the most recent WHO report there have been 137 lab confirmed cases with 45 deaths. There is currently no vaccine available against H7N9, … Read More

Monday Micro – citizen science & the scary viruses - Infectious Thoughts

Siouxsie Wiles • Jun 03, 2013 •

• Albert Osterhaus,
• American Society for Microbiology,
• Anna Dumitriu,
• ASM,
• citizen science,
• David Coil,
• flu virus,
• Graham Hatfull,
• H5N1,
• H7N9,
• Jonathan Eisen,
• NSABB,
• phage,
• Rob Dunn,
• Ron Fouchier,
• Twitter,
• uBiome

I’ve recently returned from Denver, Colorado where I was attending the American Society of Microbiology’s (ASM) annual conference. It was one of the biggest conferences I’ve ever been to: approximately 7,100 attendees, nearly 230 sessions, 19 workshops, and over 2,500 posters. All in just 4 days. Exhausting! With such a huge amount going on, the organisors had developed a smart … Read More