Louis du Plessis
@laduplessis
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Phylodynamics and evolution of viruses and occasionally bigger things | @ETH @ETH_BSSE formerly @OxfordBiology | he/him | 🇿🇦 +🇨🇠| Bad at Twitter
Joined July 2017
After many months of hard work our analysis of the lineage structure and importation dynamics of the first wave of the #SARSCoV2 epidemic in the UK is out in @ScienceMagazine today! begin thread
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RT @AsherLeeks: One week left to apply to the Social Lives of Viruses 2024! 50-person meeting on viral sociality, from virology to evoluti…
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I'm so happy to see this paper finally out! I joined the project back in 2019 and by then it had already been going on for some time. Incredible effort from @StevenFiddaman and @EAntonisDim!
How do #pathogens become more virulent? Read on for a tale of #ancient bones, #ancientDNA, and a very modern danger in the chicken industry… 🧵1/14
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I think more conferences should have a plenaries like this. Relegating talks on these topics to optional lunchtime events (that you often have to sign up for in advance) keeps us from openly discussing and recognising the issues or making any progress!
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RT @ciarajudge_: The first chapter of my PhD is now live in preprint form 😊 We introduce EpiFusion, a technique for jointly modelling infec…
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RT @rlmcelreath: Forgive me, for I am about to Bayes. Lesson: Don't trust intuition, for even simple prior+likelihood scenarios defy it. Fo…
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@Ben_Sheldon_EGI @Rob_SalGo @WythamWoods @WythamTits Sounds like a good project to apply to the John Fell fund or something similar and then set up some frass traps in Wytham woods next spring... Would be interesting to see if birds target specific plant species for feeding...
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@Ben_Sheldon_EGI @Rob_SalGo @WythamWoods @WythamTits Probably also need to know what species you're looking for and where the frass was collected to control for contamination (e.g. from the hazel)
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RT @ChaoranChen_: For all PhD and master students who are interested in computer science and public health: check out our upcoming @EPFL_en…
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RT @ETH_BSSE: Don’t miss the talks by Louis du Plessis @laduplessis on #pathogen phylodynamics and by Katie Guzzetta @ktguzz on #GutMicrobi…
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RT @DagmarIber: @ETH_WPF sent an #open #letter to the editors-in-chief @NZZ, @SRF & @Sonntagszeitung who abused an unpublished study from @…
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I like how they chose to show an alignment of identical sequences to illustrate this story
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Less than a week left to apply for this year's Taming the BEAST! This is the first in-person Taming the BEAST since 2019 and I'm really looking forward to going back to Squamish! Sign up here by May 8th:
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@ProfSamirBhatt And yet we are getting surprisingly good at estimating really huge phylogenies of tens to hundreds of thousands of sequences
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