Another #Nipah outbreak. #Bats again in the line of fire. Let's recall that we've been sharing space w/ bats for centuries. Let's find out where the interface betn bats & humans was breached and come up with solid mitigation measures. Killing or culling bats won't solve problems

✨New title unlocked!!✨ Finally a Dr! Big thanks to Katrina Lythgoe and Roman Biek for a great viva and ofc to my wonderful supervisors for the past four years Joseph Hughes Sam J Wilson Robertson!! 😁😁🎉🎉

Thank you for the poster prize GeoVet2023! 🥳 I had an amazing time connecting with researchers in Europe and more widely. Thank you everyone for the inspiration. Until Belgium 2026 🇧🇪

This World Rabies Day, I'm discussing our University of Glasgow-OIRSA collaboration for #rabies sequencing across Central America alongside rabies experts from the region. Please join us (in Spanish): 📅Thursday 28th September ⏰3:00 pm UK / 4:00 pm Central Europe Link below 👇

On my way to the Falklands to collect new data from wildlife to study infectious disease. We're looking at the role that different species play in pathogen spread from an #ecology perspective. For instance, are rodents responsible for disease outbreaks affecting #seabirds?

New Naturally Speaking Blog Out Now! In this blog we are celebrating #BatWeek. Our Postdoc Megan Griffiths Megan Griffiths provides an insight into how bats contribute to ecosystems and their need for conservation 🦇 Find out more: naturallyspeaking.blog/2023/10/24/who…

So lucky to have the wonderful team helping me collect samples for my first field trip! We collected vampire bat samples along the Peruvian coast to understand the influence of marine vs terrestrial diet on the viral compositions of the bats 🦇🦭🐷 Thank you also to Bats 'N' Viral Bytes

Happy Halloween, and more importantly, happy final day of #BatWeek! Are bats really terrifying creatures of the night, or our fluffy friends? Find out about bats 🦇and their viruses here: Naturally Speaking Who’s afraid of the big bad bat? naturallyspeaking.blog/2023/10/24/who…

On #Halloween we set off to the south coast of Peru to look for real #vampires 🧛‍♀️🦇 for my PhD to understand the relationship between diet (blood from different preys) and viruses 🦠 in vampire bats. The fruit-eating bat in the photos shares the same roost with the vampires

🏆Congratulations Daniel Streicker for being selected as Microbiology Society Fleming Prize 2024 winner. "It's these diverse interactions, each brining distinct perspectives & expertise, which make science creative & fun, allowing myself & my team to thrive personally & scientifically"

In our quest for new vampire 🦇roosts, we travelled 300km to another department called Ica; with some intensive asking-around at different government institutions, 4 days later, we finally found a new vampire bat roost, next to the sea with many pinnipeds around🤩🌊🦭THANK U team

📄 PUBLICATION | Rita Ribeiro & colleagues map partially observed disease reservoirs such as vampire bats by using innovative statistical modelling to pinpointed high-risk areas for future viral incursions in rabies-free zones. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… Bats 'N' Viral Bytes @UofG_SBOHVM

Spatial modelling with Rita Ribeiro and @JMatthiopoulos found that most vampire bat roosts in the rabies endemic Peruvian Andes remain undiscovered. This may explain the limited ability of bat population control to reduce spillover doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2… MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research @UofG_SBOHVM

Excited to share my first postdoc manuscript! Daniel Becker and I created frameworks for understanding how cross-species transmission is driven by phylogenetic relatedness between co-roosting species, and its impact on roost infection prevalence. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🏆 #CVRStokerAward | Today, we have been delighted to welcome Professor Wendy Barclay to the CVR. Prof Barclay (wendybarclay) is the 11th winner of the CVR Sir Michael Stoker Award. 👇 Read this thread to find out about Prof Barclay's exciting day at the CVR!

Advances in understanding #bat infection dynamics across biological scales - new #review in #ProcB ow.ly/MqZf50QNs5r #OpenAccess Kendra Phelps, PhD Dr. Hannah Frank Megan Griffiths @dev_n_jones @lunn_tamika Kelsey R. Moreno Luis Víquez-R KadingLaboratory WandaMarkotter

🆕Blog out now 👉🏼 Fieldwork Diary #5: Why did I take my blanket for a walk in the woods? Will McLellan, a @UofG_SBOHVM PGR Student, tells us more about his feildwork experience on tick denisty in human-impacted enviroments. naturallyspeaking.blog/2024/04/15/fie…

Happy Bat Appreciation Day! 🦇

🦇 New publication explores self-spreading vaccines to protect wildlife from deadly pathogens such as rabies. Megan Griffiths explains the complex interdisciplinary work behind this innovative technology. Article: gla.ac.uk/research/az/cv… Paper: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

My Fleming Prize lecture from Microbiology Society 2024 is now online: "Stopping spillover: from understanding risk to control at the source." Thanks to to the society for the prize and to Bats 'N' Viral Bytes for the hard work! 🦇🧬📈 youtube.com/watch?v=ZuU4wT…