Wilhelm Furnon
@WFurnon
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Postdoc Researcher at Erasmus MC Viroscience. Interests : Virology/Microbiology, Cell Biology & Immunology, with other topics in between. All views my own
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Joined September 2018
Save the date! Nido 2026 will be hosted in Honk Kong from 24-27 June 2026. Stay tuned! https://t.co/753JgdJsyT Colleagues, I would be extremely grateful if you can repost this message to your communities!
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Nice work here! Well done @JulienAmat1
Our recent study in @eBioMedicine explores the potential of a nasopharyngeal #Biomarkers, CXCL10, to improve respiratory virus screening. Discover how this could impact outbreak management and routine screenings. Full story here: https://t.co/lr0b6AO3rq
#PandemicPreparedness
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We're hiring! If you're an experienced virologist (with a PhD in molecular virology), want to join the Horizon Europe-funded project APPEAL and work with us in the vibrant city of Montpellier, South of France, take a look here for more details: https://t.co/f8x02J7hQl Please RT
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please share if you know of scientists interested in arbovirology, ready to make a move to Rotterdam!
academictransfer.com
We are looking for a passionate researcher interested in basic arbovirology to join our team!
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Great to be involved in putting this one together! Artificial intelligence for modelling infectious disease epidemics, now out in @Nature Lots of exciting scope for using AI technologies to advance infectious disease research and preparedness! https://t.co/mpB2rl6cGW
nature.com
Nature - This Perspective considers the application to infectious disease modelling of AI systems that combine machine learning, computational statistics, information retrieval and data science.
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📢 After 14 years of successful leadership, Prof Massimo Palmarini has stepped down as CVR Director. Prof Emma Thomson, a leading expert in emerging infectious diseases, will act as Interim Director, continuing the CVR’s vital work in virus research. 🔗 https://t.co/dt2PeRG2SG
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>8000 virus genomes described from 40 species of bats across 52 locations in China. Huge diversity of novel viruses described - 3.4 fold increase from current diversity. 👉 https://t.co/Mj3iFSoR1W
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It's finally out! Our @WHO funded consortium paper describing different expression systems for the production of stabilised virus-like particles (VLPs) as next-generation vaccines for poliovirus #vaccineswork #Endpolio #viruses 1/ https://t.co/qJvCnN16sL
nature.com
Nature Communications - A post eradication polio vaccine should be safe and easy to produce. Here, the authors characterize a recombinant virus-like particle polio vaccine with stabilized capsid...
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A huge thanks to @serdelor (best buddy ever), Vanessa C, Vanessa H, @RichardJOrton, @DiegoCantoni92, @cvr_crush, @GroveLab, @robertson_lab, @CVR_Genomics, @PatelLabCVR!
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🚨🔔 Delighted to see this piece of work from @CVRinfo now out in @NatureMicrobiol! Indeed, it really reflects what multidisciplinary team effort can be. Guess what? Spike of #SARSCoV2 is not just about antigenicity/immune evasion…
nature.com
Nature Microbiology - Systematic comparison of SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins from pre- and post-Omicron variants in cell lines, primary respiratory epithelial cells and Syrian hamsters show distinct...
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🐄 NEW | Research from the CVR reveals how #H5N1 avian influenza has adapted to infect bovine cells, contributing to a major outbreak in dairy cattle in North America. Multiple internal genomic segments of the virus drive its adaptation to bovine cells. https://t.co/7rsJpzWzy5
biorxiv.org
H5N1 avian influenza virus (lineage 2.3.4.4b, B3.13 genotype) has caused, unexpectedly, a large outbreak in dairy cattle in North America. It is critical to ascertain how this virus has specifically...
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This is...wow! Apart from the funny ton this could take, here is a very interesting study providing useful piece of information. Also addressing what people (falsy) feared about multiple vaccinations against a same pathogen...
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PhD position- come join us! Interested in how emerging viruses overcome our frontline defence, the innate immune system? We’re looking for someone enthusiastic and motivated to join our growing team. Please share! https://t.co/7B7aJr3pmH More info:
findaphd.com
PhD Project - INNATE IMMUNE BARRIERS TO EMERGING VIRUSES at Imperial College London, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Really nice story here, once again! Well done @SpyrosLytras, @CVRbioinfo, @robertson_lab from @CVRinfo and other collaborators!
We got a new preprint up on @biorxivpreprint !! The recency and geographical origins of the bat viruses ancestral to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 🦇🦠🗺 https://t.co/6HaF2XAISE
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BREAKING🔔 The 21st paper from G2P-Japan🇯🇵 is out at Nature Communications @NatureComms . We illuminated the virological characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 XBB variant (aka #Gryphon), generated by the recombination of two #Omicron subvariants. Please RT! 1/ https://t.co/igEsDGuVF1
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Could not agree more! Also, a time to call out « serotypes »? as proposed by some including @Baric_Lab
Omicron certainly deserves to be named as a novel 2nd "strain" of SARS-CoV-2; SARS-3 however should be reserved for a putative SARS-CoV-3, ie, another spillover of a SARS-related coronavirus from horseshoe bats. @EricTopol @K_G_Andersen @Tuliodna @linfa_wang @gretchenvogel
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📢 #Nido2023 | Some of our team are at the International Nidovirus Symposium in Switzerland!🇨🇭 Don't forget to say hello and read their fabulous posters if you're there too! @nidovirus2023 @SpyrosLytras @herdervanessa @WFurnon @NessaDun1
https://t.co/BsZxUPv3Lx
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Huge thanks to Prof. Ralph Baric @Baric_Lab for an outstanding #keynote #lecture 👏👏👏 supported by @Novartis on the #Genetics of #SARSCoV2 #pathogenesis 🤩🤩🤩. #Nidovirus2023 #nido2023
#COVID19 #coronavirus #vaccine @nidovirus2023
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And not forgetting to mention @GroveLab and @DiegoCantoni92 without who we could not look closely at virus entry in a very cool way!
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