I am incredibly honoured to have received the Mauro E. Martignoni Award from @SocInvPathol for my work describing a novel iridovirus, voted for unanimously by the committee. A fun week in Puerto Varas, Chile, taking in the breathtaking Andes scenery and talking about viruses!

RT @DesDoesScience: Final few days to submit student-led outline proposals for these funded PhD opportunities in #aquaculture and #BlueEcon….

📢 New preprint describing a novel iridovirus infecting cockles!. For the first time, we provide the full genome for a bivalve-infecting iridovirus and characterise it infecting the haemocytes of moribund cockles in the UK. Link below ⬇️ .

The manuscripts that both mine and @annatidy6's posters describe have just been submitted for peer review, so watch this space!.

Last week I was at the HM Treasury funded Shared Outcomes Fund, Coastal Health, Livelihoods and Environment programme symposium. It was exciting to see how our pathogen work fits into the wider aims of the programme to improve our understanding of coastal ecosystem health 🌊🐚

RT @DesDoesScience: Great training opportunity esp. for ECRs working on fish pathogens. These courses are always very popular so sign up fa….

The workshop is tailored for early career researchers (ECRs) who are attending the EAFP main conference, and is designed for those with little to no experience in bioinformatics, providing a hands-on opportunity to work with genomics data.

We are excited to announce that we will be running the Genomics of Fish Pathogens Workshop at the 22nd European Association of Fish Pathologist (EAFP) Conference in Heraklion 2025! 🧬🐟🦪. Details of costs and how to sign up are linked below ⬇.

Are you interested in bivalves and/or emerging pathogens? If you are, @annatidy6's 1st first author paper is now available to read as a preprint! 🎉 . The paper describes a novel genotype of Marteilia cocosarum infecting cockles in The Wash estuary, UK.

When you adopt a senior cat who is just as enthusiastic about bivalves as you.

Last week I was at @CefasGovUK's PhD Student Conference presenting some of the work from my PhD and was humbled to win best presentation in my session and best overall presentation! A huge thanks to Daniel Zeichner MP for taking time out of a busy schedule to present the prizes!

A massive thanks to Sustainable Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) for funding the workshop and to @roslininstitute for hosting us.

We had a great turnout for the @EAFP_news fish pathogen genomics workshop earlier this week! The participants went from command line basics to identifying and characterising a bacterial species causing disease in fish from a whole genome sequencing dataset.

Just a few days left to apply for this in-person introductory bioinformatics workshop. Registration closes 4th Nov! 🧬.

Earlier this week we headed to Odisha to catch up with the OCPP masters students at Berhampur University. The positive impact their outreach has had on their local coastal communities in a such a short amount of time is really impressive!

A huge thank you to the OCPP masters students at CUSAT for presenting their progress with their research projects last week. It was so inspiring to see their euthasium for their research topics, and I can’t wait to see what they achieve during their studies and beyond!

RT @DesDoesScience: Join us @MoredunComms for the 5th UK-Ireland branch meeting of the European Association of Fish Pathologists, 20-21 Nov….

EAFP abstract deadline is 18th October!. These meetings are always a great place to hear about new and exciting aquatic animal health research and are also a super friendly environment for ECRs to present their research 🦀🐟🦪. Register now:

📢 Calling all budding bioinformaticians!!. Are you attending the EAFP UK and Ireland Branch Meeting and want an introduction to the command line and tools used to analyse sequence data?. Register your interest for the workshop here:

If you’re interested in attending, please register your interest here: Priority will be given to ECRs from institutions in the UK & Ireland. For further enquiries please contact the organising committee at UKandIrelandEAFP@mail.com. Image created with AI.