Marion Koopmans
Virologist, into emerging viral infections, one health, climate and health. Head viroscience department ErasmusMC, Rotterdam NL. Backup for the ex-bird platform. ORCHID 0000-0002-5204-2312; pure.eur.nl/en/persons/marion-k… .
- Reposted by Marion KoopmansThat "explosive" nature, however, could potentially be caused - as @arambaut.bsky.social lays out - by a combination of long(ish) term cryptic transmission, linked to sexual networks / sex work, followed by more recent detection and reporting. Again, his thread: bsky.app/profile/aram...
- Reposted by Marion KoopmansFor recent outbreaks of Clade Ib in the DRC, similar patters have been seen, although not the same "explosive" nature we're observing in Sierra Leone. @marionkoopmans.bsky.social's paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Marion KoopmansEen belangrijk vaccin dat mensen moet beschermen bij grote uitbraak #vogelgriep staat op losse schroeven nu de VS een contract met Moderna heeft opgezegd. @marionkoopmans.bsky.social: "Dit besluit gaat ongetwijfeld gevolgen hebben voor nieuwe vaccins." eenvandaag.avrotros.nl/artikelen/vs...
- Trump heeft twee lopende onderzoekscontracten met farmaceut Moderna geannuleerd van in totaal $766 miljoen voor het ontwikkelen van vaccins tegen potentiële pandemische griepvirussen, waaronder #vogelgriep #H5N1 #birdflu RE: Ook dit wordt #TACO: Trump Always Chickens Out www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
- Reposted by Marion KoopmansMeest terecht verdiende onderscheiding Commandeur in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau is voor @marionkoopmans.bsky.social We hebben meer helden nodig als Marion. Laat haar een voorbeeld zijn voor velen en inspiratie voor alle jonge vrouwen aan het begin van hun wetenschappelijke carrière. 🥳
- x.com/drcrystalhea... Vet saying it like It is
- Reposted by Marion KoopmansIt’s mad. I wrote a few thoughts about it the other day. Since then someone posted that all the grants cancelled to date are ones started under the Biden administration. If this is all some mad political tit-for-tat it’s utterly pathetic and incredibly destructive. bsky.app/profile/notj...
- Reposted by Marion KoopmansInterested in SARS-CoV-2 and pandemic preparedness? Join the #covipa symposium on June 2/3 in Heidelberg/Germany, with keynotes by @marionkoopmans.bsky.social, @sanderlab.bsky.social, Florian Krammer, Gülsah Gabriel and Andreas Wack: indico.dkfz.de/event/1169/
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- www.nature.com/articles/d41... what we dreaded happened
- Reposted by Marion KoopmansVoor welke dilemma’s komen wetenschappers te staan nu de VS de aanval opent op academische vrijheid? Op 20 mei organiseren de KNAW en @debalie.bsky.social een debatavond, met o.a. @marionkoopmans.bsky.social. Meer info en tickets: bit.ly/3YOXl0j #academischevrijheid #wetenschap #maandvandevrijheid
- Reposted by Marion KoopmansViroloog Marion Koopmans (Erasmus MC) is gekozen als lid van de National Academy of Sciences. Haar onderzoek richt zich op opkomende infecties met speciale nadruk op het ontrafelen van routes bij het ontstaan en de verspreiding van ziekten op het grensvlak tussen mens en dier.
- Reposted by Marion KoopmansAs I understand this, these are contextual analysis with general llm's and not specifically trained llm's on a certain topic. General llm's are worse at this. Diagnostics is done with specifically trained deterministic Ai what is really different from generative Ai. Thanks for sharing.
- See lots of enthusiasm about generative AI in different areas of medicine. This systematic review shows that optimism is not supported by current evidence, except in urology and dermatology. From promise to validation as a valley of death www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Paper by Phd student Kesha Kroh under guidance of @CarmenEmbregts and @Corine_GvK studying fundamental aspects of infection with different rabies viruses. Rabies is 100% lethal, and understanding why there is no effective host response is crucial pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40208887/
- Reposted by Marion KoopmansThe Wuhan CDC has nothing to do with the origin of COVID-19. Virus genetic engineering and culturing was not their trade (samples were sent to Beijing/Shanghai). They did not have collection of bat viruses from Yunnan. I was told that staff at WCDC did not hear about the outbreak until late Dec.
- Reposted by Marion Koopmans👏🏽Congratulations to Prof. @marionkoopmans.bsky.social for receiving the ESCMID Award for Outstanding Contributions in the Field of Infection! We’re proud to celebrate Professor Koopmans, a key member of the Ecraid Coordinating Committee, for receiving this award! Read more: bit.ly/AwardESCMID
- Reposted by Marion KoopmansWe a looking for a Postdoc! Interested in virology, stem-cell derived models, glycans? Apply before 29th of October! @thijskuiken.bsky.social @lisabauervirus.bsky.social @marionkoopmans.bsky.social @rpdevrieslab.bsky.social www.werkenbijerasmusmc.nl/en/vacancy/1...
- Reposted by Marion KoopmansListening to @marionkoopmans.bsky.social giving the ESCMID excellence award lecture “Towards pandemic prevention, moonshot or utopia?” at #ESCMIDGlobal @escmid.bsky.social
- Incredible treat when traveling back from Vienna. The flight crew @KLM thanked me and invited me into the cockpit for landing. With clear skies, the impressive dashboards and nice conversations, we descended into Amsterdam. What a treat! Thanks team, this was very special
- scheduled to give a talk at the European Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases conference about addressing anti-science in our community. Looking for examples, experiences. suggestions?
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- and another vacancy in our department! Great project, in dynamic team
- Join us! We are looking for a highly motivated PhD Student to join our teams and investigate glycan-virus interaction at @erasmusmc.bsky.social 🍬Glycans 🦠Viruses 🫁🧠Organoids 🧬 Genetic Engineering Apply here 👇 www.werkenbijerasmusmc.nl/en/vacancy/1...
- Middelbare scholieren van het Streek lyceum in Ede doen een project over Europa en pandemieën. Ik kreeg een enthousiaste groep meiden over de vloer. Het resultaat youtu.be/UZ-vflcMFYA en youtu.be/V-JmWkmB9BU en de rough cut www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryQp...
- Reposted by Marion KoopmansAre you (or anyone you know) ambitious, interested in the pathogenesis of arboviruses and ready for Rotterdam? If yes, check out this vacancy for an assistant professor position 👇. More opportunities to join Viroscience will follow soon, so stay tuned 😀
- Please share with people interested in arbovirology. We are looking for an enthusiastic colleague to strengthen our team please share if you know of scientists interested in arbovirology, ready to make a move to Rotterdam! www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3508...
- Reposted by Marion KoopmansInterested in pandemic science & preparedness strategies? Still time to register for 2 meetings in Glasgow with great speakers inc. @marionkoopmans.bsky.social @uofgregiusanna.bsky.social @kennethbaillie.bsky.social @sdwfrost.bsky.social @pathogenomenick.bsky.social Register by 5pm today👇
- Mpox Clade I emerged in 2023 in South Kivu and since has spread sustained through direct human to human contact. Controlling this outbreak has turned out to be a major challenge. Through embedded outbreak research coupled with a local capacity building program, we first....
- characterised the virus, used genomic sequencing to understand patterns of spread, and added serology to look into household transmission. 21-25% of individuals testing positive www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
- seeing all these cruise ship outbreak posts. Interesting to see this phase 3 clinical trial as well! www.nihr.ac.uk/news/uks-fir... . Now norovirus infection is nasty but for normally healthy persons a few days nuisance. Infections can however be severe in persons with impaired immunity
- a s... load of work by talented PhD student Nathalie Worp, Miranda de Graaf, David Nieuwenhuijse, Bas Oude Munnink and our colleagues from DTU in @EuropeVeo : the global urban virome unravelled. Using metagenomics to understand global viral diversity www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...
- another cool piece of work from our consortium www.onehealthpact.org/news/overwin...
- Please share with people interested in arbovirology. We are looking for an enthusiastic colleague to strengthen our team please share if you know of scientists interested in arbovirology, ready to make a move to Rotterdam! www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3508...
- Reposted by Marion KoopmansBREAKING: HHS announces that 10,000 federal health department workers will be laid off. NBC's Aaron Gilchrist has the latest www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
- umbrella review of HPV vaccine safety and efficacy jada.ada.org/action/showP...
- Reposted by Marion KoopmansDe Verenigde Staten zien gouden bergen voor zich met AI, maar ze hebben niet door dat ze hun eigen toekomst en van anderen op het spel zetten met die andere AI (avian influenza). How smart or stupid can you be? #birdflu #H5N1 #prevention #vaccination #surveillance #poultry #dairycows #mammals
- Interesting read on the political uptake of the great barrington declaration and how that may trickle through in the avian influenza plans mention by US leadership www.importantcontext.news/p/the-great-...
- Another arbovirus popping up in our enhanced surveillance pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40133068/ Not too surprising but a first for our country. No human disease noted, but first indication that we may need to start considering it. First step is to understand if this is a one off finding or not
- Interesting read on the political uptake of the great barrington declaration and how that may trickle through in the avian influenza plans mention by US leadership www.importantcontext.news/p/the-great-...
- Reposted by Marion Koopmans3rd leading cause of death still in most states (and that's most likely an undercount if you consider the longer-term impacts to every system in the body). They have no interest in saving or prolonging or bettering anyone's life.
- Almost a year of avian influenza in cows. No clues on how this started, no signs of abating, concerns about adatation and some speculation about why here and not in europe www.science.org/content/arti...
- “Pandemic is over” as rationale to terminate grants on coronavirus vaccines and potential pandemic pathogens www.science.org/content/arti...
- Reposted by Marion KoopmansWe are JUA KIVU: a #horizoneurope -funded consortium with 5 partners in Africa and 3 in Europe. We conduct mpox emergency outbreak research to better understand the dynamics of the ongoing outbreak in the African Great Lakes region, providing evidence-based support for its containment. juakivu.org
- Reposted by Marion KoopmansThe first JUA KIVU paper has been published in Nature Medicine! We show that #mpox rapidly spreads mostly through sexual contact within densely populated areas, highlighting the need for extended collaboration, health education strategies, contact tracing, clinical care and surveillance.
- our country joins many EU countries discouraging certain travellers from traveling to the US. nos.nl/artikel/2561... Who would have thought half a year ago
- dip in hospital admissions for RSV in elderly, measured first season after introduction of vaccine for 75+ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
- Reposted by Marion KoopmansInfluenza A(H5N1) Virus in Sheep. See here: influenza-news.blogspot.com/2025/03/infl... @vanranstmarc.bsky.social @marionkoopmans.bsky.social
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- another mammal infected with H5 avian influenza. Remarkable which surprises you are in store for with a widely circulating virus. This most likely is an accidental case, so quite different from the " moo flu" situation but still relevant. www.bbc.com/news/article...
- New project website juakivu.org with collaboration in the African great lakes region on mpox
- oproep tot kritisch bevragen van wetenschappers www.villamedia.nl/artikel/opin... en reactie daarop met oproep tot kritische bevragen van politieke conclusies www.villamedia.nl/artikel/opin... De herkomst van SARS COV 2 in a nutshell.
- Info on the nominee for the CDC director position from the CDC website where she currently is deputising. experience in important topics www.cdc.gov/about/leader...
- the nominee for the CDC director positions seems to be havinghxighy relevant background. A short piece by Helen Branswell www.statnews.com/2025/03/24/s... and some of her credentials on the CDC website www.cdc.gov/about/leader...
- On the potential gap left by the US withdrawal from global health capacity building www.foreignaffairs.com/china/coming...
- Reposted by Marion KoopmansZeker nu Trump de wetenschappelijke wereld zonder budgetten praktisch monddood heeft gemaakt.
- Reposted by Marion KoopmansBedankt voor het noemen van Long Covid, en bovenal voor het voet-bij-stuk houden!
- een gesprek tussen nogal verschillende werelden www.bnr.nl/podcast/zola...
- Reposted by Marion KoopmansDraadje van viroloog @marionkoopmans.bsky.social (Erasmus MC) over hoog risico experiment door VS-minister RFK jr. van Volksgezondheid m.b.t. vrijlaten #vogelgriep #H5N1 onder pluimvee.
- Reposted by Marion KoopmansErg bedankt voor de snelle en uitgebreide reactie. Thanks! 👊
- congratulations to kristian Andersen dnva.no/detskjer/202...
- very pleased with this. An epic journey, starting within a clinical research network, trying to understand causes of unexplained illness in the Balkan region. We focussed on potential for arbovirus disease and used multiplex serology assays to disentangle exposures. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39987930/
- and the back to back paper looking at outcomes pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39987929/
- some lessons learned on scaling up of test capacity in Europe during the pandemic. It was a challenge, as was this study as it needed to be done with extremely busy individuals. Still some useful observations pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40099133/
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