Robert J. Gifford
I carry out research into the evolution of viruses and their impact on host species. Open science.
- Comparative genomics generates results fast - but preserving the context needed to understand them over time is much harder. I’ve written a perspective on GLUE as a long-lived, data-oriented knowledge base: projects as persistent scientific objects rather than disposable pipelines. sl1nk.com/Y0O4H
- Recovery of viral RNA from centuries old human tissue is genuinely exciting. This changes the horizons for recovery of ancient virus genomes.
- Excited to share our work on #AncientRNA from alcohol-preserved lungs, recovering the oldest human RNA virus genome (an 18th-century rhinovirus). Our study shows that viral RNA remnants persist in centuries-old tissue, opening new ways to study virus evolution and historical disease #Paleovirology🫁🦠
- Studying immune gene evolution is rarely about a lack of data, it’s about keeping data, biology, and interpretation aligned as everything changes. New GLUE Genomics post: from viral genomes to immune genes, using interferon lambda as a case study. gluetools.substack.com/p/glue-resou...
