With thanks to collaborators at PDU Cambridge, icddr,b Bangladesh and Institut Pasteur Paris @hsalje.bsky.social @scauchemez.bsky.social @noemielefrancq.bsky.social @gabribdsantos.bsky.social
Importantly, we find antigenic distance estimates to be consistent with genetic distances between pathogens, supporting this approach as a means of characterizing antigenic immune landscapes.
We apply this approach to a serological study of 10 arboviruses in northwest Bangladesh, inferring population transmission dynamics and cross-reactive relationships between pathogens.
In this work we show that there is a wealth of information about antigenic relationships contained in the covariance structure of multi-pathogen serological studies, and that this can be used to account for cross-reactivity in seroprevalence estimates.
The final piece of my PhD work is now published in Science Translational Medicine! We present a new framework to jointly infer epidemiological and antigenic parameters from multi-pathogen population serological studies🦠
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Our paper on the incubation periods of mpox clade Ib is out, with Javier-Perez Saez, @andrewazman.bsky.social @justinlessler.bsky.social Elizabeth Lee, @jackieknee.bsky.social @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social
www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
📢 Thrilled to see that our work on chikungunya virus (CHIKV) epidemiology in Brazil is out in @thelancetinfdis.bsky.social 🧵
We're hiring a modelling postdoc at PSI Oxford for two exciting projects: 1) modelling the early immune responses to Nipah vaccination, and 2) joining the PRESTO team working on immunobridging in vaccine evaluation studies.
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Get in touch for more info! Deadline 4th August.
New postdoc positions with a number of exciting epidemic modelling projects opening in our Unit at @pasteur.fr in beautiful Paris. Deadline for applications: 26th June.
research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...
We are excited to announce our 2025 Schmidt Science Fellows! 32 early career researchers, nominated by the world’s leading research universities, who will take an interdisciplinary approach to advancing discovery schmidtsciencefellows.org/news/2025-fe...
We demonstrate a major shift in mpox transmission, with household-driven spread disproportionately affecting children, a pattern, distinct from the clade II outbreaks in men who have sex with men and early clade Ib cases in Kamituga linked to heterosexual transmission
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Mpox Clade Ib incubation periods are longer than previous MPXV estimates and vary by exposure route, with shorter periods for sexual transmission. These differences suggest the need to revise post-exposure monitoring guidelines.
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Incredibly excited to share that our manuscript was just published in @nature.com ! What a way to start the new year! 🎉
https://buff.ly/4gyYCzx
We present phylowave, a framework that enables to learn the fitness dynamics of pathogens from phylogenies.
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Really excited to launch the new iteration of the Bakery as part of the Pathogen Dynamics Unit, co-led with @hsalje.bsky.social and @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social Has been awesome working together this last year and really excited for things to come! Please follow and repost.
@ocortesazuero.bsky.social
Congratulations Noémie!🥳
Infectious Disease Modelling starter pack!
Suggestions are welcome!
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New work led by Wei Wang characterises the dynamics of measles immunity in infant&child cohorts in China. @hsalje.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Made it! Thanks to Steve Baker and Michael White for reading my thesis and for great discussions. And big thanks to @hsalje.bsky.social and the wonderful PDG team for making these years so great✨️
We’re hiring!! postdoc and research assistant (with potential for PhD) positions on mathematical modeling of infectious diseases at Cambridge (UK). Mainly of arboviruses including with longitudinal cohorts, disease mapping and models applied to multiplex serology in Africa. jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/44461/
