2025 February Virtual Seminar

Speaker 1 Dr Jonathon Kotwa (Sunnybrook Research Institute, Canada) – Novel betacoronaviruses in white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) from southern Ontario, Canada Jonathon Kotwa is a postdoctoral fellow at the Sunnybrook Research Institute in Toronto,...

2025 January Virtual Seminar

Speaker 1: Dr Craig Duffy (University of Liverpool) – The Application of Nanopore and Illumina sequencing in infection biology: Practical and technical considerations. Craig Duffy is a population geneticist and bioinformatician within the Hiscox group,...

2024 Extraordinary Seminar September

Session Chair Prof. James Wood Co-Director (The University of Cambridge) Speaker 1 Dr. Raina Plowright (Cornell University) Talk Title  Coronavirus dynamics in bat populations in space and time Biosketch Dr. Raina Plowright’s research program develops the science of...

2024 October Virtual Seminar

Session Chair: Prof. Paul Digard (The Roslin Institute, UK) First Speaker: Prof. Shan-Lu Liu (Director of Viruses and Emerging Pathogens Program, The Ohio State University, USA) – Talk Title – Membrane fusion and cell-to-cell transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Dr....

2024 July Virtual Seminar

Session Chair Prof. Julian Hiscox, Network Director (University of Liverpool) Speaker 1. Prof. Alan Radford SAVSNET (University of Liverpool) Talk Title  AI of health records and whole genome sequencing of samples to better understand coronavirus epidemiology in dogs...