Hi All,

Given I've been away for 2-weeks, and then not posted the news to this feed last week -- this week's news is a bumper edition. Lots of things to report:

• Kaye, AR; Hart, WS; Bromiley, J; Iwami, S; Thompson, RN (2022) A direct comparison of methods for assessing the threat from emerging infectious diseases in seasonally varying environments JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY 548 111195
• Carson, J; Ledda, A; Ferretti, L; Keeling, M; Didelot, X (2022) The bounded coalescent model: Conditioning a genealogy on a minimum root date JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY 548 111186
• Hart, WS; Abbott, S; Endo, A; Hellewell, J; Miller, E; Andrews, N; Maini, PK; Funk, S; Thompson, RN (2022) Inference of the SARS-CoV-2 generation time using UK household data ELIFE 11 e70767
• Volk, D; Yang-Turner, F; Didelot, X; Crook, DW; Wyllie, D (2022) Catwalk: identifying closely related sequences in large microbial sequence databases MICROBIAL GENOMICS 8 850
• Prosser, NS; Green, MJ; Ferguson, E; Tildesley, MJ; Hill, EM; Keeling, MJ; Kaler, J (2022) Cattle farmer psychosocial profiles and their association with control strategies for bovine viral diarrhea JOURNAL OF DAIRY SCIENCE 105 3559-3573
• Orangi, S et al. (2022) Epidemiological impact and cost-effectiveness analysis of COVID-19 vaccination in Kenya BMJ GLOBAL HEALTH 7 e009430
• Willgert, K; Didelot, X; Surendran-Nair, M; Kuchipudi, SV; Ruden, RM; Yon, M; Nissly, RH; Vandegrift, KJ; Nelli, RK; Li, LL; Jayarao, BM; Levine, N; Olsen, RJ; Davis, JJ; Musser, JM; Hudson, PJ; Kapur, V; Conlan, AJK (2022) Transmission history of SARS-CoV-2 in humans and white-tailed deer. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 12 12094
• Kamau, A; Musau, M ; Mwakio, S; Amadi, D; Nyaguara, A; Bejon, P; Seale, AC ; Berkley, JA; Snow, RW (2022) Impact of Intermittent Presumptive Treatment for Malaria in Pregnancy on Hospital Birth Outcomes on the Kenyan Coast. CLINICAL INF. DIS. 10.1093/cid/ciac509
• Prosser, NS; Hill, EM; Armstrong, D; Gow, L; Tildesley, MJ; Keeling, MJ; Kaler, J; Ferguson, E; Green, MJ (2022) Descriptive analysis of national bovine viral diarrhoea test data in England (2016-2020). VET. RECORD e1854
• Agoti, CN; Ochola-Oyier, LI; Dellicour, S (2022) Transmission networks of SARS-CoV-2 in Coastal Kenya during the first two waves: A retrospective genomic study. ELFE 11 e71703
  
  

Hi,

Four short things to report this week.

1) Ed & Laura have made a new podcast, talking to Samik Datta (who was in SBIDER until 2017) about his move to NewZealand and working for the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research.

2) Sascha and the Bioinformatics RTP has finalised a 2-year contract with the PATH-SAFE project, funding further developments of the EnteroBase system at 2.25 FTEs. EnteroBase was originally developed by the lab of Prof. Mark Achtman but is now hosted by the RTP. PATH-SAFE stands for The Pathogen Surveillance in Agriculture, Food and Environment (PATH-SAFE) programme and is a £19.2m Shared Outcomes Fund (SOF) research programme which aims
to develop a national surveillance network, using the latest DNA-sequencing technology and environmental sampling to improve the detection, and tracking of foodborne human pathogens and AMR through the whole agri-food system from farm-to-fork.

3) Given more people are moving back to the office - Nigel was suggesting that we re-start the seminar series. Volunteers to help, especially from ECR would be most welcome.

4) Only one paper out this week:

Geerts, M; Van Reet, N; Leyten, S; Berghmans, R; Rock, KS; Coetzer, THT; Eyssen, LEA; Buscher, P (2022) Trypanosoma brucei gambiense-iELISA: A Promising New Test for the Post-Elimination Monitoring of Human African Trypanosomiasis. CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES 73 E2477-E2483

Hi All,

So after 2+ years working on the COVID-19 pandemic, and a long time spent avoiding all risky situations - I've been hit with COVID this week. So this is news from isolation.

A few things to report:

1) Nigel brought cakes in on Tuesday 5th to try to tempt people back to the office. Hopefully we can try to keep Tuesdays as a regular slot where as many of us as possible are around to chat.

2) Ed & Laura have done another fabulous podcast with Bridget (https://sbiderpresents.podbean.com/e/sbider-presents-episode-2/) expect more over the coming weeks - and please voluneer if you have some research you'd like to share with the world.

3) Bridget would also like to remind everyone that there is only 4 days left to apply for a PDRA working with her on the evolution of infectious diseases in realistically-immunogenetically-diverse human populations.

4) I know that Ed & Laura have been at the Health GRP Early Career Researcher Workshop - you'll have to ask them if it was successful / interesting.

5) Finally, in terms of recent publications:

P R F Mendonca, E Tagliatti, H Langley, D Kotzadimitriou, C G Zamora-Chimal , Y Timofeeva, K Volynski (2022) Asynchronous glutamate release is enhanced in low release efficacy synapses and dispersed across the active zone, Nature Communications, 13: 3497.

Kumar, V., Siddiqui, N.A., Pollington, T.M. et al (2022) Impact of intensified control on visceral leishmaniasis in a highly-endemic district of Bihar, India: an interrupted time series analysis. Epidemics. 10.1016/j.epidem.2022.100562

Morobe, J.M. et al (2022) Genomic Epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in Seychelles, 2020-2021. Viruses 14 1318 doi: 10.3390/v14061318