Soren Alexandersen

I will leave SSI at the end of August. From 1 September 2023 my details will be: Prof. Soren Alexandersen, DVM, PhD, DVSc, FRCPath, MRCVS Professor of Pathology and Disease Mechanisms Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences Aarhus University Blichers Alle 20 DK-8830 Tjele

Comparative subgenomic mRNA profiles of SARS-CoV-2 Alpha, Delta and Omicron BA.1, BA.2 and BA.5 sub-lineages using Danish COVID-19 genomic surveillance data - eBioMedicine Great team effort looking at more than 12000 NGS runs 😎 thelancet.com/journals/ebiom…

Comparative subgenomic mRNA profiles of SARS-CoV-2 Alpha, Delta and Omicron BA.1, BA.2 and BA.5 sub-lineages using Danish COVID-19 genomic surveillance data | Research Square. A great team effort. researchsquare.com/article/rs-254…

Sammy’s moment 🥹 #AFLGF

@sci_questions Will be important to find out which antibody test was used, whether they looked for an increase in titre (had a sample from before exposure) and whether the test used has been validated in dogs etc.

@Alexandersens Twenty days after the return of the four-year-old Italian greyhound positive PCR test, "new samples were taken, including a serological test to find out if there had been an immune response directed against the virus".

A recent study identified #monkeypox virus in a dog in Paris (thelancet.com/journals/lance…). A second update lists the lack of an immune response in the dog, suggesting the dog was not productively infected, but was likely a healthy carrier. More here👉🏾actu.fr/ile-de-france/…

@sci_questions Having lived in Denmark, Montana, Iowa, England, Manitoba and Australia I am also used to storms, although not exactly tropical🤓

@Alexandersens Growing up in India, tropical thunderstorms were quite normal. It still amazes me though.

#SKstorm Wait for the lightening and thunder. ⛈

@sci_questions Maybe a good thing that I never managed to get a job in Saskatoon 😎

And then the rain..

We are currently investigating a suspected case of #FootandMouth disease in Norfolk. Movement restrictions and a 10km temporary control zone are in place on the farm. Preliminary testing does not indicate the presence of disease and further work is underway to fully rule it out.

This work was only achievable through a very dedicated effort by many people @SSI_DK including @mobdjek, @tyragovekrause @rskskov @andersfomgaard, @sieber_r, @henrik_ullum, @Alexandersens, @JannikFonager, @TLillebaek, @SteenEtTo, @marcbennedbaek, @anna_c_ingham, @kimleeng

We’ve integrated a huge new deep mutational scanning dataset from Yunlong Cao, Sunney Xie et al in visualizations that reveal how #SARSCoV2 RBD mutations affect antibodies, including antibodies that neutralize #Omicron or are from vaccinees previously infected by SARS-CoV-1 (1/n)

One of the happiest moment after meeting with my PhD main supervisor @Alexandersens after 3 months. Though the meeting was very short, I felt like I am at home with my guardian, now onward we will meet again and again 🥳🥰

Neonatal parechovirus infection: Possibility of in‐utero transmission - Hilbig - - Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jp…

Another open access paper from GCEID, this one on detection of diverse antimicrobial resistance genes; it has been a long time under way, well done Vanina taking it to the finish line 😎 frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Another paper from GCEID; well done Tarka and Anthony: Exploring the Cause of Diarrhoea and Poor Growth in 8–11-Week-Old Pigs from an Australian Pig Herd Using Metagenomic Sequencing mdpi.com/1227864 ##mdpiviruses via @VirusesMDPI

An increased ratio of SARS-CoV-2 positive to negative sense genomic and subgenomic RNAs within routine diagnostic upper respiratory tract swabs may be a marker of virion shedding medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

@K_G_Andersen @nytimes @ScienceMagazine @jbloom_lab I am with Jesse and the co-signatories on this one. Although the probability of a natural origin is high, the probability of a lab escape, albeit very low, cannot be formally/scientifically excluded before more data become available

Glad to see our paper on SARS-CoV-2 subgenomic RNAs in diagnostic samples being in the Top 50 @NatureComms SARS-CoV-2 articles published in 2020 #NCOMTop50. nature.com/articles/s4146… dam.springernature.com/file/6X-A3YkYK…

@sci_questions Mainly related to vaccinations of humans; vaccines and vaccination of animals are also important and have provided significant advances over time.

#Vaccines have changed the course of human history. We live longer and healthier lives. Take a walk through history by learning about deadly #diseases, vaccines and the pioneers. History of vaccinations starting from the year 1000. historyofvaccines.org/timeline/disea… #Vaccine

@sci_questions Have tried to get a position in Saskatoon since 1990 this far without any luck

Me too. 🤩