Mahan Ghafari
Molecular evolution of pathogens | Wellcome Trust Fellow @biology.ox.ac.uk | Independent Investigator Data Analytics & Epi Group @psioxford.bsky.social | MedSci Fellow @lincoln.ox.ac.uk | Oxford DTP & Zoology alum | users.ox.ac.uk/~univ4613/
- Reposted by Mahan GhafariI'm excited to introduce our new workflow for detecting endogenous viral elements - HI-FEVER. 🖥️🧬 academic.oup.com/bioinformati... 🧵 Big thanks to @ariskatzourakis.bsky.social, @humanceae.bsky.social, José Gabriel and Cormac for bringing this from conception to fruition!
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- Reposted by Mahan GhafariFeeling festive? Why not deck the halls with @cvrinfo.bsky.social's papercraft #VirusSnowflakes and celebrate the science of viruses and the fight against viral diseases. Download for free: cvr-engagement.co.uk/virus-snowfl... #scicomm #sciart #decorations
- Reposted by Mahan GhafariH3N2 preprint: there are concerns of a severe incoming influenza season due to the drifted H3N2 K clade. We at @psioxford.bsky.social analysed epi data and ran scenario models to see what we could discern about K clade transmission dynamics: zenodo.org/records/1770.... (1/18)
- Excited to be part of this amazing group of virologists! @asm.org journals.asm.org/journal/jvi/...
- Reposted by Mahan GhafariGuess the news is officially out! Extremely excited to announce that I will be starting my own laboratory at Institut Pasteur @pasteur.fr this coming spring! Slight change to my office window view from Tokyo Tower🗼 to the Tour Eiffel. 🇫🇷
- Reposted by Mahan GhafariI gave a talk last year at TEDxNewEngland aimed at introducing the idea of viral sociality to a general audience, including implications for evolution & virology. Video now available online below. #socialviruses #evosky #virosky 🧪
- Had an absolutely wonderful few days at #JSV72 in Hamamatsu & IMSUT in Tokyo. Huge thanks to @shusukekawakubo.bsky.social, @shigeru0701.bsky.social, @spyroslytras.bsky.social & everyone in the @systemsvirology.bsky.social lab for being such brilliant hosts. Japan has been an amazing experience 🇯🇵✨
- 🚨 DPhil opportunity at Pandemic Sciences Institute🚨 Excited to be co-supervising a new DPhil theme with Christophe Fraser and Yvonne Jones on Developing methods for accurate reconstruction of viral histories to guide pandemic preparedness & targeted interventions. Read more here: lnkd.in/eJXSXkia
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- 🚨Our study on characterising the within-host SARS-CoV-2 evolution during persistent infections is now out in @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social! 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Looking forward to welcoming you tomorrow, @spyroslytras.bsky.social! Spyros will be giving a seminar in Biology (Mansfield Road) at 11am on ‘AI-enabled structural comparisons uncover the deep evolutionary histories of viral glycoproteins’ — come along if you’re around!
- Very grateful to the @biology.ox.ac.uk for the kind spotlight — and for the opportunity to do meaningful work alongside such brilliant and thoughtful colleagues across Biology, Pandemic Sciences Institute, and Lincoln College. #GlobalHealth #VirusEvolution #PandemicPreparedness
- I don’t have the words to describe what it feels like to watch my home city of Tehran and the neighbourhoods I haven’t seen in almost a decade, now burning on the news. Then getting messages from family and friends asking where it’s safest to flee, with empty pockets and no fuel to escape.
- When I abruptly left my PhD in the US in 2017 and moved to the UK — ‘mastered out,’ as they say — many told me I shouldn’t have. That it was all just temporary. That it would pass soon enough…
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- Only 10 days left to apply! 👇 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
- 🚨We’re hiring a Postdoc to join our group at Oxford! We’re developing methods to understand how pathogens evolve—across hosts, over time, & through molecular & structural change. Keen or know someone who is? Please share! 🕒 3-year post 📅 Deadline: 30 May 🔗 Apply: www.jobs.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/179640
- Looking forward to tomorrow’s @smtpb.bsky.social event (5:30–7:00pm UK time)! If you’re interested, you can register here: stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
- Great thread by Spyros on this long-in-the-making paper which I also contributed to — a deep dive into the timing and origins of both SARS-CoVs👇
- Sooo happy to finally have this one published!! (3 years in the making… 👀) A comprehensive investigation into the recency and geographical origins of both SARS-CoVs that spilled to humans in the past few decades, now in @cp-cell.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
- 🚨We’re hiring a Postdoc to join our group at Oxford! We’re developing methods to understand how pathogens evolve—across hosts, over time, & through molecular & structural change. Keen or know someone who is? Please share! 🕒 3-year post 📅 Deadline: 30 May 🔗 Apply: www.jobs.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/179640
- Looks like there was an issue with the earlier link! This one should work: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
- Reposted by Mahan GhafariReally looking forward to this event @oxmartinschool.bsky.social on what turns spillovers into epidemics/pandemics in human populations: www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/what-... with exciting speakers. Hosted by the Pandemic Genomics program and moderated by @jessmetcalf.bsky.social
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- A really nice analysis by Katia Koelle and David Rasmussen on the impact of purifying selection on evolutionary rate estimates, tree topology, and phylodynamic parameters. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
- Reposted by Mahan GhafariTwo weeks to go until the application deadline for ILESLA. If you or anyone you know would benefit from full funding to carry out a PhD in Life and/or Environmental Science please visit/refer to our website page iles.web.ox.ac.uk/how-apply where you can see open day videos and get full guidance.
- Reposted by Mahan GhafariOptimal disease surveillance with graph-based active learning. New work led by Joseph Tsui (DPhil student in our group: www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/josep...). Many potential applications to emerging infectious diseases and routine surveillance of IDs. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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- Looking at academia in 2024, much of the debate feels like a spectrum of contradictions: Some obsess over top-tier journal publications, dismissing almost anything in technical journals. Others claim that publishing solely in technical journals won’t hurt careers (spoiler: it does).
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- Reposted by Mahan Ghafari🎁 Early Xmas present from your friends at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research @cvrinfo.bsky.social We're thrilled to unwrap Viro3D - a comprehensive database of virus protein structures: >85,000 predicted structures from 4,400 human & animal viruses! 🦠 viro3d.cvr.gla.ac.uk
- 🚨Just one month left to apply for this exciting project led by me and @ariskatzourakis.bsky.social, exploring sources of evolutionary rate variation in viruses with pandemic potential. Don’t forget to register your interest! 👇
- 🚨Exciting DPhil project!🚨 Join us in a new project led by me and @ariskatzourakis.bsky.social to explore “Sources of evolutionary rate variation in viruses with pandemic potential”, offered as part of the @oxfordbiology.bsky.social 🦠🧬 Learn more & apply 👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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- Reposted by Mahan GhafariA thread🧵 on application systems for postdoc jobs in the UK (applies to my university, but I've seen others and they're similar). I have seen (too many times) good applicants who don't seem to understand how recruitment is done on our side - not their fault! it's a privilege! - so here's how
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- I'm trying put together a list of interesting papers (not exhaustive) broadly related to SARS-CoV-2 evolution. Add your favourites in the comments! SARS-CoV-2 variant biology: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Hypotheses on VoC emergence and SARS-CoV-2 evolution: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Mahan GhafariLast week, a teenager in British Columbia contracted H5N1, the first human case acquired in Canada. The BC CDC and and Canadian Food Inspection Agency have released sequences from this infected person and domestic and wild birds sampled in BC, which we've just added to Nextstrain. A thread:
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- Reposted by Mahan GhafariJust posting this to #popgen Here's a link to my notes on population & quantitative genetics: github.com/cooplab/popg... Hoping to extend it more after the winter holidays, as I'm just finishing up teaching the undergrad version of class.
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- Reposted by Mahan GhafariHere's a starter pack for early career researchers in evolutionary biology. I prioritized the most-junior folks, and this list quickly filled up with undergrads, grad students, and postdocs. Might do another list later, but I'm tired. Have fun everyone! 🐒 #evobio go.bsky.app/MzND7nXat://did:plc:lqntypahtulzsssbj3slomy7/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lb5nxrqajy2n
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- Reposted by Mahan GhafariHere is a list of labs in #ecology and #evolution who are recruiting graduate students for next year: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... PIs looking to recruit can enter information here: t.co/Fn1LRAA5Ip I believe this list is thanks to @drcarl.bsky.social #evosky #ecoevo #evolbio #AcademicJobs
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- 1/ Hello, BSky community! 👋 I’m an incoming Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow & Group Leader at the University of Oxford. My research focuses on the molecular evolution of pathogens, especially viruses with pandemic potential. You can find out more about our work here: users.ox.ac.uk/~univ4613
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- Reposted by Mahan GhafariFantastic resource for bio icons: NIH Bioart Source Build figures, presentations, and illustrations with 2,000+ science and medical art visuals. This collection of high-quality, scientifically accurate vectors, #icons, and brushes is freely available within the public domain. bioart.niaid.nih.gov
- 🚨Exciting DPhil project!🚨 Join us in a new project led by me and @ariskatzourakis.bsky.social to explore “Sources of evolutionary rate variation in viruses with pandemic potential”, offered as part of the @oxfordbiology.bsky.social 🦠🧬 Learn more & apply 👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- Projects are live for our DPhil in Biology! 'Should I do a PhD?' is a big question, and we have projects that span the biosciences to serve as inspiration. If you're considering a PhD, or know someone who is, take a look at all our projects! 👇 bit.ly/DPhilBiol
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