@smithjac7

Group Leader @RoslinInstitute. Interested in avian genomics - host responses to viral infections and environmental adaptation 🐥

 Edinburgh, Scotland
ed.ac.uk/roslin/avian-genomics
Joined June 2018
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📣New Research Topic open for submission! Accepting manuscripts on topics related to host innate immune responses to avian- and bat-borne viruses. Led by Dr. Efstathios Giotis (University of Essex), Jacqueline Smith (Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh) and Xing-Yi Ge (Hunan University). ➡️See more and submit: fro.ntiers.in/iCWk 🗓️Deadline: 29th October 2025
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Congratulations to all co-authors on publication of this paper investigating regions of the chicken genome potentially involved in HPAI resistance #chicken #flu #HPAI #H5N2 @roslininstitute @MDPIOpenAccess mdpi.com/1422-0067/25/18/100…

Candidate Genes Associated with Survival Following Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Infection in...

Highly pathogenic strains of avian influenza (HPAI) devastate poultry flocks and result in significant economic losses for farmers due to high mortality, reduced egg production, and mandated euthan...

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A single nuclei study of chicken immune organs. Now on #BioRxiv. A great genomics resource - congratulations to all authors 🐔 doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.05.6…
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CoronaHeadsUp@CoronaHeadsUp5 Jun 2024
H5N1 Is Increasingly Adapting to Mammals New preprint "shows clear mammal-to-mammal transmission of the virus." Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… UC Davis report: ucdavis.edu/health/news/h5n1…

Massive outbreak of Influenza A H5N1 in elephant seals at Península Valdés, Argentina: increased...

H5N1 high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) viruses of the clade 2.3.4.4b have killed thousands of marine mammals in South America since 2022. In October 2023, following outbreaks in sea lions in...

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A genome assembly for the Lapland Longspur is now available in NCBI: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/ge… #avian #genome #NCBI @wzuhou @SimoneMeddle @krausejs
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nf-core@nf_core14 May 2024
Delighted to announce that a new @nf_core preprint manuscript has just gone live! A collaboration with @EuroFaang, the paper covers updates to @nextflowio and @nf_core, and describes the experience of the @EuroFaang adopted @nf_core. Let's dive in...🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Empowering bioinformatics communities with Nextflow and nf-core

Standardised analysis pipelines are an important part of FAIR bioinformatics research. Over the last decade, there has been a notable shift from point-and-click pipeline solutions such as Galaxy...

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I am co-editing a Special Issue in Applied Sciences entitled 'Applied Genomics and Bioinformatics for the Poultry Industry'. If you have a suitable paper, then please consider publishing here. Deadline: 20th September 2024 mdpi.com/journal/applsci/spe…

Applied Genomics and Bioinformatics for the Poultry Industry | Applied Sciences | MDPI

Poultry eggs and meat are the main sources of animal protein for humans, and feathers are widely used by humans for multiple reasons. With more than ten years...

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An excellent review of avian chromosome evolution @darrenkgriffin doi.org/10.3390/cells1304031…

A Bird’s-Eye View of Chromosomic Evolution in the Class Aves

Birds (Aves) are the most speciose of terrestrial vertebrates, displaying Class-specific characteristics yet incredible external phenotypic diversity. Critical to agriculture and as model organisms,...

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Edinburgh Genomics@edgenome7 Feb 2024
We are hiring - job vacancy in Edinburgh Genomics lab. Come and join the amazing team here. Click link for more details elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/…
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A new duck genome assembly: bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/ar… #duck #genome @BMCBiology

A new chromosome-scale duck genome shows a major histocompatibility complex with several expanded...

BMC Biology - The duck (Anas platyrhynchos) is one of the principal natural hosts of influenza A virus (IAV), harbors almost all subtypes of IAVs and resists to many IAVs which cause extreme...

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Congratulations to @RachmanMifta on her very nice paper on selective sweep analysis of heat stress in Nigerian chickens @OlivierHanotte @TadelleD and Almas and Oladeji #chicken #heatstress #genome nature.com/articles/s41598-0…

Genomic analysis of Nigerian indigenous chickens reveals their genetic diversity and adaptation to...

Scientific Reports - Genomic analysis of Nigerian indigenous chickens reveals their genetic diversity and adaptation to heat-stress

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Last week to apply...
Emma Cunningham@_EmCunningham_24 Jan 2024
Interested in the disease ecology of avian influenza in seabird populations around the UK? First of two post-docs to join our ECOFLU project now live. Get in touch for full info. Closing date 31st January edin.ac/41waifC
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The white crowned sparrow genome is now available! Congratulations to @wzuhou and all co-authors @SimoneMeddle @KasiaMiedzinska @krausejs @J_H_Perez #johnwingfield #scientificreports #sparrow #genome rdcu.be/dwiKY
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Great Poultry workshop today at #PAG31. Excellent talks from all the speakers
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Congratulations to colleagues on their publication highlighting the importance of promoter regions during duck domestication #duck #genomics @BMCBiology doi.org/10.1186/s12915-023-0…
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Selection on the promoter regions plays an important role in complex traits during duck domestication dlvr.it/T0TPHg
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Ancient DNA reveals how a chicken virus evolved to become more deadly | University of Oxford ox.ac.uk/news/2023-12-15-anc…

Ancient DNA reveals how a chicken virus evolved to become more deadly

An international team of scientists led by geneticists and disease biologists from the University of Oxford and LMU Munich have used ancient DNA to trace the evolution of Marek's Disease Virus (MDV)....

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