@RowanGDurrant

PhD Infectious Diseases @UofGlasgow @UofG_SBOHVM 🦠 Ex: MRes Biosciences @SwanseaUni 📊 rabies phylogenetics & modelling 🧬 she/her

 Glasgow
Joined June 2017
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Super pleased to finally have my first PhD chapter out on bioRxiv! We had a look at what funky incubation periods could do to genetic divergence @rabidbites biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Examining the molecular clock hypothesis for the contemporary evolution of the rabies virus

The molecular clock is a method for measuring the rate of virus evolution but the key assumption that mutations accumulate on the genome at a constant rate over time does not always hold true. While...

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My first PhD chapter has been published in @PLOSPathogens! Is incubation period weirdness behind the lack of temporal signal in some rabies virus datasets? (probably not) dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.…

Examining the molecular clock hypothesis for the contemporary evolution of the rabies virus

Author summary Rabies is a neglected disease that kills around 60,000 people each year. After entering the body, the incubation period of the virus is usually less than one month, but can sometimes...

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(probably my last post on this site; you can find me at rowandurrant.bsky.social)
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An updated version is now available following reviewer comments: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Examining the molecular clock hypothesis for the contemporary evolution of the rabies virus

The molecular clock hypothesis assumes that mutations accumulate on an organism’s genome at a constant rate over time, but this assumption does not always hold true. While modelling approaches exist...

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NEW: It’s baaaaaack…! Winter season is coming and so has the UKSHA weekly respiratory surveillance report resumed its weekly publication. Headline: respiratory viruses are on their way up, led by rhinovirus (common cold) followed by COVID-19. gov.uk/government/statistics…
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And just over 3.5 years later, I submitted my PhD thesis yesterday! 🐕🦠
Rowan Durrant@RowanGDurrant23 Mar 2021
Super excited to announce I'll be starting my PhD at the University of Glasgow in April, looking at metapopulations & the disease dynamics of rabies! 😁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🐕
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New Research Associate/Assistant post in Glasgow, using computational and statistical approaches to study virus infection, evolution, and transmission. Funded until Mar 2028. jobs.ac.uk/job/DJO681/resear… Opportunity to pioneer new directions in virus research and develop a career.
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Had an amazing time at the UofG computational biology conference last week, and was super pleased to receive the best presentation award! Thanks to the organisers for putting on a great event 💻🌿
Glasgow Computational Biology Community@glasgowcompbio5 Sep 2024
Good morning! We’re busy setting up for a fantastic 2 days of computational biology fun. It was so nice of the folks at @UofGARC to set up a wee countdown for us, they must be just as excited for us to kick off us we are! #cbc24
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Liam Brierley@L_Brierley15 Aug 2024
Applications still open until Monday for a three-year funded postdoc position within my startup lab group exploring new directions in computational virology, informatics, and macroevolution! #hiring #researchjobs
Liam Brierley@L_Brierley8 Jul 2024
🚨👨🏽‍🔬👩🏿‍🔬𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁! Want to come work at @CVRinfo with me on biostatistical and ML models to understand how viruses infect and adapt to new hosts and new tissues? Apply @ my.corehr.com/pls/uogrecruit…, deadline 22 July! #bioinformatics @UofGSii
A 3D graphic of an influenza virus showing the external proteins and a cutaway into the genome organisation. The background shows a densely connected network of nodes.

ALT A 3D graphic of an influenza virus showing the external proteins and a cutaway into the genome organisation. The background shows a densely connected network of nodes.

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Do I know any mustelid people on here who can help me figure out what this is? I can’t decide between otter and mink- seems too dark to be an otter but not pointy enough for mink? inaturalist.org/observations…
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Great to be back in Swansea this past week for @ISEC_stats_ecol! Lots of interesting talks and cool people ☀️
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Liam Brierley@L_Brierley8 Jul 2024
🚨👨🏽‍🔬👩🏿‍🔬𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁! Want to come work at @CVRinfo with me on biostatistical and ML models to understand how viruses infect and adapt to new hosts and new tissues? Apply @ my.corehr.com/pls/uogrecruit…, deadline 22 July! #bioinformatics @UofGSii
A 3D graphic of an influenza virus showing the external proteins and a cutaway into the genome organisation. The background shows a densely connected network of nodes.

ALT A 3D graphic of an influenza virus showing the external proteins and a cutaway into the genome organisation. The background shows a densely connected network of nodes.

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DECODING GENOMES - from sequences to phylodynamics: We are proud to present our book on how to analyse genomic sequences with an evolutionary perspective. See decodinggenomes.org for a free pdf, Amazon links for print orders, and further information. Great team effort 1/2
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If you work on pandemics, global health security, disease ecology, or conservation, I hope you'll read and share our new preprint. 👇 (Or, just take this statistic: For every hour you travel from a clinic, the lifetime odds of detecting an outbreak goes down by one third.)
Rory Gibb@roryjgibb23 May 2024
New @viralemergence study in preprint! How consistent are the impacts of social and environmental drivers on the outbreak geography of emerging infectious diseases? We harmonised surveillance and geospatial data for 32 diseases to ask this question. medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Neil Mabbott@neilmabbott110 May 2024
An isolated case of BSE (Mad cow diseas) found on farm in Scotland - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw4d…

BSE: 'Mad cow disease' case found on farm in Scotland

The Scottish government said precautionary movement restrictions had been put in place.

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New reasearch supports that leprosy passed between humans and red squirrels in medieval England, with fur trade and pet keeping playing an important role in the spread of the disease. This is the first time that an animal host of leprosy is found in the archaeological record.
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In medieval times, people were obsessed with squirrels—sharing with them their homes, their food, and, apparently, their leprosy, @KatherineJWu reports: theatlantic.com/science/arch…

Medieval Pets Had One of Humanity’s Most Cursed Diseases

Medieval people had a lot of leprosy. So did their pet squirrels.

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It seems like a good opportunity to release {phyloshapeR}, a new R package 📦I developed to create the cover! It is meant to be used to plot phylogenies using map contours (or any other figures) Check how to use it here: github.com/iramosgutierrez/p…
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Does anyone happen to know where the idea that opossums can't get rabies bc of their low body temperature actually came from? I see it absolutely everywhere online but haven't found an obvious source
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H5N1 in cows.....crazy. cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influen…

Sick cows in 2 states test positive for avian flu

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Keith
@keithdunn22 Mar 2024
Jasmin Paris @JasminKParis finished loop five of the #BM100 in 59:58:21.
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Better the devil you know: Two Tasmanian devil cancers show distinct growth dynamics and one may outcompete the other by @anneLise_Gerard @BeataUjvari @SiddleHannah @ROwen_93 doi.org/10.1111/eva.13670
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