Bushran N Iqbal

Residents in Beijing and northeast China have reported observing what appears to be a new high in pneumonia-related deaths amid severe cold as the latest wave of respiratory illness continues to swept the country. ntd.com/residents-in-b…

Quality of the sample based RNA determines the real time RT-PCR result... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1173842

Congatulations Dr.Maduja and the team!! Latest publication from our lab on Epidemiology and risk factors of respiratory syncytial virus associated acute respiratory tract infection in hospitalized children younger than 5 years from Sri Lanka. Do access the full paper

Latest publication from our lab on human bocavirus-1 infection in patients with ARTI during COVID-19 pandemic in the Central Province of Sri Lanka. Do access if anyone finds it useful. Congratulations Shiyamalee and the team!!🙌 rdcu.be/dfeyg

Could you get a nice genome assembly from a sample left out at room temp. for 1.5 months? Yes! 🐠🩸 stored in 95% EtOH at 22°C for 6 weeks yielded 14 Mb N50 & 97% BUSCO from 34X coverage @nanopore sequencing [with short fragment eliminator (SFE) kit]. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🗺️ OUT TODAY in @NatureMicrobiol: The largest meta-analysis ever of bat coronavirus sampling reveals new biological insights into seasonality, tissue tropism, and coevolution - and the existence of major geographic and evolutionary gaps in surveillance 🔓nature.com/articles/s4156…

Lead author Lily Cohen, a medical student at @IcahnMountSinai, collaborated with researchers at @UofOklahoma, @Georgetown, and @ColoradoStateU, to determine next steps for monitoring bat #Coronaviruses worldwide: mshs.co/43vPCEt 📷: Sherri and Brock Fenton @OUResearch

@sci_questions Many happy returns of the day!

University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

#Dengue cases are all time high after 2 years in Sri Lanka. What we are experiencing now has been happening during each dengue season, pre Covid. Sri Lanka declares special dengue control days after over 70,000 cases were reported in 2022 newsfirst.lk/2022/12/28/sri…

We are saddened and heartbroken to share that our 15 month baby Shamel is diagnosed with the number 1 gene killer - Spinal Muscular Atrophy (Type2). SMA is a rare neuromuscular condition that causes muscles to become weak and damages the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.

DeepSelectNet: Deep Neural Network Based Selective Sequencing for Oxford Nanopore Sequencing. -Improved accuracy for metagenomics applications- Great effort by @AnjanaSenanayke, a work that I was involved in mostly on the @nanopore signal data side. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Isothermal DNA amplification up to 6 kb, led by @MomciloGavrilov ; can be used for cloning and chromosomal gene editing readout. A 3x faster superhelicase, characterized using nanopore and MD simulation (by Wen Ma), replaces thermocycler. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Join us Nov. 8 for Prof. Lambrechts' webinar on "Zika virus emergence: the African exception". Register: zoom.us/webinar/regist…. @LambrechtsLab @PI_CREID @CREID_Network @ASTMH @ACAV_ASTMH @ihii_utmb @Virology_FAMERP @institutpasteur @ArbovirusS

@ESivault Congratulations

My first PhD chapter came out for my birthday 🎂😄! If you want to learn more about bats from Papua New Guinea, check it out! 🦇⛰️ 🌴 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bt…

Our paper on' Relationship between clinical and laboratory features with infecting dengue virus serotypes in a sample of dengue suspected adult patients from 2015-2017 in Sri Lanka' sciencedirect.com/science/articl…