🦟 New study on #Usutu and #WestNile #virus dynamics in the Netherlands out in @natcomms.nature.com! 7 years of collaborative studies in birds and mosquitoes by many in the #OneHealth PACT consortium, with Reina Sikkema & @marionkoopmans.bsky.social. → rdcu.be/eCf1f Some key findings: 1/4

Very interesting and diverse week with @OneHealthPact! Mosquito identification, wild bird catching and metagenomic sequencing for arboviral surveillance in wildlife. @BlomRody @TjommeM @MarionKoopmans @Essenburgpark

Beautiful phylogenomic study of Maverick transposons of vertebrates: @josegabrielnb and @ArisKatzourakis conclude that Mavericks represent an ancient lineage of mostly aquatic dsDNA viruses, which integrated into animal host genomes and have persisted for ~ 419 million years!

Mosquito identification with the @OneHealthPact. @JGvanderBeek @BugproofBugprof

71 #SARSCoV2 sequences from #Suriname available @GISAID and integrated in @nextstrain analysis. Results from collaboration between Academic Hospital Paramaribo (AZP), Bureau voor Openbare Gezondheidszorg and @ErasmusMC. @MarionKoopmans @1986Bom @Rimo42

Interesting consultancy opportunity with Unicef Brasilia: linking real-time data on human spatial mobility to epidemiological modelling of vector borne diseases.

Many thanks and huge congrats to the exceptional organizers, speakers and lecturers of #caddeworkshop19! This training brilliantly took us from MinION sequencing to integrating genetic data with epidemiology, spatial analysis and modeling for outbreak investigation @CaddeProject