Teams in the Democratic Republic of the Congo & Uganda have now shared the first sequences from the current Ebola (Bundibugyo virus) outbreak using Pathoplexus, just days after cases were confirmed. Read more about the response to Bundibugyo virus here: pathoplexus.org/news/2026-05...

Celebrating excellence in research ✨ Big congrats to #AdrianLison and #XianggeLuo on receiving the #ETH Medal for their doctoral research 👏🏽 on infectious disease surveillance and tumour heterogeneity, respectively > tinyurl.com/6kzc9dep @ethz.ch | @tanjastadler.bsky.social | #NikoBeerenwinkel

Mulberry, Pilarski, Dinger, and @tanjastadler.bsky.social present a phylodynamic method that generalizes the traditional birth-death approach to model cellular dynamics to an age-dependent phylodynamic model. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molb... #evobio #molbio

We have an open Assistant Professor position (tenure track) @ethz.ch in Computational Immunology - ethz.ch/en/the-eth-z... Please apply / share!

What’s it really like to work & study at #ETHZurich D-BSSE in #Basel? 🎬 Our new film shares first-hand insights from staff members themselves. 🎥 Full film on YouTube: youtu.be/Kw-NEcVCr1k @ethz.ch #AcademicResearch #LifeSciences #Biotechnology #Interdisciplinary #DBSSE

Thrilled & honoured to have run the first @pathoplexus.org workshop with @chaoranchen.de @pagasi.bsky.social @kanyerezi30.bsky.social & Arthur Shem Kasambula at @pha4ge.bsky.social on Saturday! 🎉🤝 A fantastic turnout & wonderful time spent with curious users!

New Paper🚀! Our work analysing the Swiss national SARS-CoV-2 wastewater 🚱 monitoring data is now published in PLOS Water 💧 @plos.org journals.plos.org/water/articl... (Julien Riou, @tanjastadler.bsky.social @trj2.bsky.social Christoph Ort et al)

Open position at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics: We are looking for a Director of the Center of Pathogen Bioinformatics apply.refline.ch/499599/0346/... I am in the Center's steering board together with fantastic colleagues (Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social, Richard Neher @neher.io, and

We are excited to announce the Latsis Symposium 2026: The history of epidemics – are there lessons for the future? latsis-epidemics.ethz.ch We have a great lineup of international speakers - true leaders in this field. The symposium is held at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, from the (1/2)

Tanja Stadler @tanjastadler.bsky.social @ethz.ch awarded prestigious #DoronPrize for pioneering work in computational evolution and public health. Big congrats, Tanja! > u.ethz.ch/IxSY8

AI is revolutionising palaeontology | New @NatureRev paper by @ethz.ch & UZH shows how #AI tools are transforming the analysis of complex fossil data and evolutionary patterns – unlocking new insights across deep time > u.ethz.ch/BjDtR @tanjastadler.bsky.social

🗓 Pathoplexus turns ONE! 🎂🎉 In the past year we’ve grown from 4 pathogens to a truly global, community-driven platform for transparent, equitable & impactful pathogen sequence sharing. 📰 Read the full update: pathoplexus.org/news/2025-08... 1/10

Loculus, an open-source software for building pathogen sequencing databases, is on the shortlist for #SIBRemarkableOutputs 2024. It’s a joint project by the teams of @neher.io, @tanjastadler.bsky.social and @firefoxx66.bsky.social xx66.bsky.social. Congratulations!

Vaughan & @tanjastadler.bsky.social develop a method to infer multitype population trajectories and apply it to MERS-CoV, revealing transmission patterns between camels and humans. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf130 #evobio #molbio #virus

In this project led by James Munday, we quantified the post-sampling degradation of viral RNA in wastewater. Taking into account this degradation is core towards unbiased quantification of epidemiological dynamics based on wastewater data.

We have a new preprint 📝 *Post-sampling degradation of viral RNA in wastewater impacts the quality of PCR-based concentration estimates* Now on bioRxiv doi.org/10.1101/2025... with @tanjastadler.bsky.social, trj2.bsky.social, Christoph Ort and others

📢Today Pathoplexus announces the inclusion of 2 new viral pathogens: RSV (A & B) and HMPV. These respiratory viruses cause a serious health burden, particularly in infants & the vulnerable, & Pathoplexus aims to support sequence sharing to improve understanding & response. 1/4

Drei aus meiner Sicht zentrale Herausforderungen für die Bildungs-, Forschung- und Innovations-Landschaft der Schweiz: wissenschaftsrat.ch/blog/die-gro...: Blog Beitrag zum 60. Geburtstag des Schweizer Wissenschaftsrat, Happy Birthday!

🗓️ Pathoplexus has now been around for 7 months! And both we and our users have been busy - so we wanted to share some updates & highlights! 📰 You can see our full News Item here: pathoplexus.org/news/2025-04-16-spring-update 1/9

Thank you, @tanjastadler.bsky.social, for your great efforts during the #Covid19 pandemic! Watch the Switzerland-Germany comparison on measures 5 years after the breakout of #SarsCoV2 on @zdfde.bsky.social > www.zdf.de/play/magazin...

I first read the famous 1925 Yule paper at its 80th birthday - during my Master thesis work, and it shaped my research profoundly. It was a pleasure and honour to lead this special 100 anniversary issue celebrating Yule's legacy and phylogenetic models with @noahrosenberg.bsky.social and Mike Steel!

A mathematical theory of evolution: phylogenetic models dating back 100 years—a new #PhilTransB theme issue describes recent developments in models of #evolutionary trees and networks, and in #phylogenetic modeling for applications in biology: https://buff.ly/41r1wkR @tanjastadler.bsky.social

Quantification of developmental processes (here early Danio rerio development) with our novel Bayesian phylogenetic methodology - leveraging single cell lineage tracing data based on CRISPR/Cas9 technology royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... Antoine Zwaans @seidels.bsky.social Marc Manceau

Featured article: The lives of cells, recorded go.nature.com/4g2gRwG by Amjad Askary, Wei Chen, @choijunhong.bsky.social, Lucia Y. Du, @elowitzlab.bsky.social, @james-gagnon.bsky.social, @schierlab.bsky.social, @seidels.bsky.social, @jshendure.bsky.social, @tanjastadler.bsky.social & Martin Tran

Thoughts on how AI can help prepare for the next pandemic - Thanks for having led this work @mugkraemer.bsky.social Joseph L.-H. Tsui Serina Y. Chang, @sjbhatt.bsky.social - it is an honour to be part of it!

SRF - the core Swiss public service journalism stakeholder - plans to majorly cut on science journalism. You can still sign our petition if you think this is problematic openpetition.eu/!sciencejour...

Major cuts planned in SRF science journalism in Switzerland - the public service media. Scientists today launched a petition ‘Facts Instead of Misinformation: For Strong Science Journalism!’ Become one of over 1,800 signatories www.openpetition.eu/ch/petition/...

Starke Kürzungen im SRF Wissenschaftsjournalismus in der Schweiz geplant. WissenschaftlerInnen starteten heute eine Petition "Fakten statt Falschinformationen: Für einen starken Wissenschaftsjournalismus!" Werde eine(r) von bereits über 1'800 UnterzeichnerInnen openpetition.eu/!sciencejour...

Thanks to huge efforts by Uganda’s Central Public Health Laboratory, Uganda Ministry of Health, UVRI, Africa CDC, & SANBI, UWC the sequence from the Ebola Sudan case in Kampala is now available on Pathoplexus pathoplexus.org/seq/PP_0011C... w full analysis here: virological.org/t/near-real-...

First genome sequence from the Ugandan Ebolavirus outbreak with analysis: virological.org/t/990 and first filovirus genome submitted to Pathoplexus database: pathoplexus.org/seq/PP_0011C.... Great (and rapid) work from the National Health Laboratory, UVRI and partners.

📯 #Swiss wastewater dashboard through our #wise project is now updated with historic data within which you can overlay the seasons. #Influenza B is now high, after skipping a year. Check it out here: wise.ethz.ch

Excited to be in Bern today to launch the Center for Pathogen Bioinformatics (CPB) - a great collaboration of SIB, @tanjastadler.bsky.social & Niko Beerenwinkel @ethzurich.bsky.social, @neher.io @unibas.ch & myself @swisstph.ch, to better tackle known & novel pathogens - introduced by SIB director!

Information for CoV-Spectrum users: The GISAID data on CoV-Spectrum has not been updated since 23 December due to an interruption in the data feed. We have contacted GISAID regarding this issue and are hopeful for a resolution soon.

Today Pathoplexus announces the inclusion of a new viral pathogen: mpox (previously known as monkeypox). Within the context of the current mpox outbreaks and ongoing health concerns, Pathoplexus aims to support sequence sharing to improve both understanding and response. 1/7

It is a great honour to have been awarded the Karl-Heinz Hoffmann prize by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities www.linkedin.com/posts/bayeri...

The life of cells, recorded www.nature.com/articles/s41.... We dive into the opportunities of DNA recording for understanding single cell dynamics. Fantastic collaboration with @shendure.bsky.social, @elowitzlab.bsky.social, @james-gagnon.bsky.social, and @schierlab.bsky.social labs.

We are excited to share our new preprint „Bayesian phylodynamic inference of multi-type population trajectories using genomic data“ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Using BEAST2, you can estimate past population sizes and spillover events between populations based on genetic sequencing data. 1/2

Read the NY Times article featuring ETH computational biologist Tanja Stadler.

We're incredibly honoured to be winners of the Swiss Academies of Arts & Sciences National Prize for Open Research Data 2024! 🎉🎊 "Pathoplexus ensures open access and provides a cutting-edge infrastructure for interactive and programmable data exploration" akademien-schweiz.ch/en/medien/pr... 1/2

Do you want to track virus variants for H5N1, SARS-CoV-2, RSV and the West Nile Virus? Check out our new genspectrum.org @GenSpectrum dashboard - building upon the successful features of cov-spectrum.org!

Our new GenSpectrum.org dashboard has finally launched! Using Influenza H5N1, RSV and SARS-CoV-2 data from INSDC and West Nile virus data from @pathoplexus.org, it enables fast and interactive analyses of genome sequencing data similar to CoV-Spectrum. 1/5