#viraf26 Oh, yes; this happened last night. Award of Honorary Life Membership of FIDSSA - Federation of Infectious Disease Societies of Southern Africa - for services to Virology.
September 18, 2026 at 6:24 AM
#viraf26 Oh, yes; this happened last night. Award of Honorary Life Membership of FIDSSA - Federation of Infectious Disease Societies of Southern Africa - for services to Virology.
#viraf26 Nicole Chineka, from @anna-lisew.bsky.social’s lab at UCT Medical School. Seriously nice work on using lumpy skin disease poxvirus as a vector for SAT1-3 FMDV VLPs as a cattle vaccine.
September 17, 2026 at 7:46 AM
#viraf26 Nicole Chineka, from @anna-lisew.bsky.social’s lab at UCT Medical School. Seriously nice work on using lumpy skin disease poxvirus as a vector for SAT1-3 FMDV VLPs as a cattle vaccine.
#viraf26 Seamus Morgan - two talks due to dropouts, one on viroids in grapevine nuclear stocks - >70% incidence - and one on tomato curly stunt virus. A geminivirus. Ah, back to my old speciality….
September 16, 2026 at 9:29 AM
#viraf26 Seamus Morgan - two talks due to dropouts, one on viroids in grapevine nuclear stocks - >70% incidence - and one on tomato curly stunt virus. A geminivirus. Ah, back to my old speciality….
#viraf26 Shabir Madhi - Dean of Univ Wits Medical School - gave a great talk on RSV and its effects on children and the elderly. A little eye-opening that RSV vaccination significantly lowers ALL cause hospitalisation for respiratory disease.
September 16, 2026 at 7:09 AM
#viraf26 Shabir Madhi - Dean of Univ Wits Medical School - gave a great talk on RSV and its effects on children and the elderly. A little eye-opening that RSV vaccination significantly lowers ALL cause hospitalisation for respiratory disease.
#viraf26 @isv-news.bsky.social Denise Doolan on EBV and cancers: use of protein microarrays to look at responses in different cancers and disease.
September 18, 2026 at 7:48 AM
#viraf26 @isv-news.bsky.social Denise Doolan on EBV and cancers: use of protein microarrays to look at responses in different cancers and disease.
#viraf26 Ros Chapman, @anna-lisew.bsky.social’s long-time No.2 and now my collaborator too, on improvedHIV-1 C vaccines and autologous Tier 2 nAb elicitation.
September 16, 2026 at 1:33 PM
#viraf26 Ros Chapman, @anna-lisew.bsky.social’s long-time No.2 and now my collaborator too, on improvedHIV-1 C vaccines and autologous Tier 2 nAb elicitation.
So here we are, in Skukuza Camp in the Kruger Park in South Africa, waiting for the opening plenary of Virology Africa 2026. Which, for the first time in 28 years, @anna-lise.bsky.social and I are not organising! 😄 #viraf26 from here on in.
September 15, 2026 at 4:11 PM
So here we are, in Skukuza Camp in the Kruger Park in South Africa, waiting for the opening plenary of Virology Africa 2026. Which, for the first time in 28 years, @anna-lise.bsky.social and I are not organising! 😄 #viraf26 from here on in.
#viraf26 Andani Tshiitamune, from our BRU! Candidate universal flu vaccine based on M2e peptide display on AP205 VLPs - all made in plants. Excellent immunogenicity in terms of Ab responses for M2e, to VERY high titres.
September 17, 2026 at 7:41 AM
#viraf26 Andani Tshiitamune, from our BRU! Candidate universal flu vaccine based on M2e peptide display on AP205 VLPs - all made in plants. Excellent immunogenicity in terms of Ab responses for M2e, to VERY high titres.
#viraf26 Went for DNA vaccine, found responses were better with N included - found 3 injections Gc + N or N alone were protected. No neut Ab in protected monkeys!! T cell responses great for Gc, Abs for N.
September 15, 2026 at 4:54 PM
#viraf26 Went for DNA vaccine, found responses were better with N included - found 3 injections Gc + N or N alone were protected. No neut Ab in protected monkeys!! T cell responses great for Gc, Abs for N.
#viraf26 Duncan Steele from Gates Foundation on whether we can improve differential efficacy of rotavirus vaccines in Africa. Virtually, as he is in China!
September 17, 2026 at 6:02 AM
#viraf26 Duncan Steele from Gates Foundation on whether we can improve differential efficacy of rotavirus vaccines in Africa. Virtually, as he is in China!
#viraf26 My good friend Baty Dungu - now a consultant on veterinary vaccines - speaking on animal viruses. Noting the following about rinderpest: only took 100 years…. And what’s next??
September 16, 2026 at 12:05 PM
#viraf26 My good friend Baty Dungu - now a consultant on veterinary vaccines - speaking on animal viruses. Noting the following about rinderpest: only took 100 years…. And what’s next??
#viraf26 Martha O’Kennedy CSIR: monkeypox virus proteins made in plants as VLPs. M1R, A29L A35R and B6R Ags from 2 forms of the virion. Genetic fusions or SpyTag/Catcher approach on scaffold VLPs or free proteins made.
September 17, 2026 at 8:18 AM
#viraf26 Martha O’Kennedy CSIR: monkeypox virus proteins made in plants as VLPs. M1R, A29L A35R and B6R Ags from 2 forms of the virion. Genetic fusions or SpyTag/Catcher approach on scaffold VLPs or free proteins made.
#viraf26 Francois Maree - an excellent plenary on FMDV persistence in buffalo herds. VERY different behaviour of 3 SAT serotypes, with SAT1 Ab titres persisting and others not; SAT1 virus persisting in tonsillar tissue much longer than others…amazing work, all done in Kruger Park.
September 17, 2026 at 7:01 AM
#viraf26 Francois Maree - an excellent plenary on FMDV persistence in buffalo herds. VERY different behaviour of 3 SAT serotypes, with SAT1 Ab titres persisting and others not; SAT1 virus persisting in tonsillar tissue much longer than others…amazing work, all done in Kruger Park.
#viraf26 Prize giving! Best senior presentation - Nicole Chineka from @anna-lisew.bsky.social’s group!
September 18, 2026 at 8:43 AM
#viraf26 Prize giving! Best senior presentation - Nicole Chineka from @anna-lisew.bsky.social’s group!
