Daniel Rawle

@SpyrosLytras Welcome to Brisbane 🇦🇺 @SpyrosLytras Hope the weather improves for you!

Very excited to be in (slightly rainy until tomorrow ☔) Brisbane attending the first Australasian Protein Structural Phylogenetics Meeting #APSPM2026! Catch me at my talk tomorrow afternoon or at welcome drinks tonight! 🥂

The first year of the Emerging Viral Diseases Lab @QIMRB_Institute has come to an end. 🍻🎉 Fortunate to work with such a great bunch of people. We're just getting started 💪

@andriislonchak @QIMRB_Institute @MichaelLeitne14 We had some again yesterday, delicious 😋

Festive season at Systems Virology Lab @QIMRB_Institute 🎄🍷 Thank you York and @MichaelLeitne14 for organising this on my last day at work this year.

@nhmrc At 8% success rate for Ideas Grants, our workforce won't survive the next two decades.

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@angie_rasmussen @BrandyZadrozny Wow, what an absurd ordeal. Ostrich fascist is still my phrase of the year 🤣

The ostriches have been culled and that particular H5N1 outbreak has finally been contained. Here is @BrandyZadrozny's reliably excellent account of the entire ordeal. msnbc.com/news/news-anal…

The politically weaponized "lab leak" theory is destroying both pandemic preparedness & all of American science. Grateful to Kristian, Andrew, Eddie, & Bob for their courage, integrity, & commitment to what the evidence shows and to our field. theconversation.com/how-conspiracy…

BREAKING🔔 The 53th paper from G2P-Japan🇯🇵 is out at Lancet Infectious Diseases @TheLancetInfDis. We elucidated the virological characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 NB.1.8.1. Please repost🔥 1/ thelancet.com/journals/lanin…

The outbreak of the mosquito-borne viral disease chikungunya on Réunion may be showing signs of ebbing. But the need for the vaccine may not be, as the virus is expected to spread beyond the Indian Ocean. scim.ag/4jQMbRb

A Queensland city that had been declared "essentially dengue-free" has recorded its first locally-transmitted case of the mosquito-borne illness in seven years. ab.co/3F7qvkH

Join the Cumming Global Centre to shape the future of pandemic response! We're hiring full-time researchers across @UniMelb faculties incl. @TheDohertyInst, Science, MDHS & Engineering. Help advance life-saving therapeutics. Apply now: go.unimelb.edu.au/4trp

Hoping @JodyPeters20 @UQ_News vaccine can get approved soon. This is another example of the unacceptable regulatory burdens and delays crippling Australian medical research and translation.

Now online! Structural basis for plasticity in receptor engagement by an encephalitic alphavirus dlvr.it/TK5fGg

New outbreak of the Chikungunya virus on the island of La Réunion transmitted locally by Aedes albopictus. The virus probably originates from an Aedes aegypti African lineage; it has acquired mutations to adapt to Albopictus. rfi.fr/en/france/2025…

Opinion article in the Guardian

another cool piece of work from our consortium onehealthpact.org/news/overwinte…

Bowen man likely died from Japanese encephalitis but local exposure uncertain - ABC News abc.net.au/news/2025-04-0…

The game has changed since contributing to this article on Friday with JEV now detected in Brisbane City @QIMRB_Institute

The @QIMRB_Institute Emerging Viral Diseases Lab is working on new ways to treat and prevent JEV qimrb.edu.au/researchers-an…

This comes after @QIMRB_Institute warned last week of the threat of flooding from ex-TC Alfred on mosquito-borne viruses ntnews.com.au/news/queenslan…

This is the first detection of JEV in a densely populated east coast capital city in Australia. Will Brisbane residents now be eligible for free JEV vaccination, @DavidCrisafulli ? For now, stop those mosquitoes biting 🦟🦟 @QIMRB_Institute abc.net.au/news/2025-03-1…