We use newly emerging data and computational methods to investigate cross-species transmission of RNA viruses and their evolution! More info: https://vibelab.co.uk/
Based at @cvrinfo.bsky.social
Managed by @liambrierley.bsky.social
Viral Informatics, Biostatistics, and Evolution (VIBE) Lab
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🚨👨🏽🔬👩🏿🔬𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁!
Work with us to develop supervised learning and graph analysis of the evolutionary and genomic links between viruses, the tissues they can infect, and the hosts that can be infected.
3y role based at @cvrinfo.bsky.social, apply by 18 Mar:
vibelab.co.uk/blog/25-02-1...
vibelab.co.uk/blog/26-02-0...
Dr Haley Stone opening #ViBioM2026 showing our work to predict virus-tissue compatibility using graph neural nets!
@evbc.bsky.social
Viral Informatics, Biostatistics, and Evolution (VIBE) Lab
Something I'm very proud of: @viralemergence.bsky.social has spent years now using ML models to figure out which orthopoxviruses could pose a risk to human health (left) and trace them back to their animal hosts (right)
Links:
www.cell.com/patterns/pdf...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Followed by another @vibelab.co.uk member Dr Jamie Herzig showing how to tease apart genuine 'host signatures' in viral genomes from phylogenetic signal, also with graph neural nets!
#ViBioM2026 @evbc.bsky.social
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
Viral Informatics, Biostatistics, and Evolution (VIBE) Lab
Viral Informatics, Biostatistics, and Evolution (VIBE) Lab
🦅 What’s driving the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) across Europe?
Using machine learning and wild bird ecology, a new study from @L_Brierley & colleagues reveals a shift towards year-round risk in cold, low-lying regions of NW Europe.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Viral Informatics, Biostatistics, and Evolution (VIBE) Lab
Colin Carlson
Ryan M. Imrie (he/him)
🚨📝 New work via @thepandemicinst.bsky.social now preprinted!
We took ~19000 sequences of avian influenza virus and trained machine learning models on >40000 genomic/proteomic features - the resulting ensemble can predict zoonotic potential with AUC=0.95. More below!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Really proud to share our preprint describing early adaptation of H5N1 to US dairy cattle, and showing how these mutations enhance the ability of the virus to infect other mammals, such as pigs and humans.
With @influenzal.bsky.social @vidhid.bsky.social @drclairesmith.bsky.social and many more!
MRC-UofG Centre for Virus Research
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...
Work with us in a three year postdoc research role! The role will develop supervised learning and graph analysis methods to understand the evolutionary and genomic links between viruses, the tissues t...
Looking for an innovative way to present your research? We have a new blog piece about science communication through the University of Glasgow’s Public Engagement Forum!
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) represents a threat to animal and human health, with the ongoing H5N1 outbreak within the H5 2.3.4.4b clade being one of the largest on record. However, it rem...
In early 2024, an unprecedented outbreak of H5N1 high pathogenicity avian influenza was detected in dairy cattle in the USA. The epidemic remains uncontrolled, with spillbacks into poultry, wild birds...
Earlier this year an immunocompromised patient succumbed to a borrealpox (formerly alaskapox) infection. Only 7 human cases have been reported in history, the other 6 have been mild. Detailed case report now in CID. Orthopoxviruses are a growing threat. ##IDSky🧪
academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...
Avian influenza remains a serious risk to human health via zoonotic transmission, as well as a feasible pandemic threat. Although limited zoonotic cases have resulted from the current epizootic outbre...
An elderly, immunocompromised man in Alaska, USA, died from disseminated borealpox virus (BRPV) infection despite antiviral treatment. This case highlights
