Raphael Sieber

Wissenschaftler:innen der ETH und der Universitäten Bern, Zürich, St. Gallen und Basel haben eine Petition gegen die geplanten Sparmassnahmen beim Wissenschaftsjournalismus von SRF. Hier unterschreiben!⬇️ #petition-main" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">openpetition.eu/ch/petition/on…

It's all gone. They've taken down all the CDC datasets from data.cdc.gov "Do not fear those who tell the truth. Fear those who try to hide it. They are willing to sacrifice other things."

It was a huge honour to be featured on @srfnews (Swiss national news) in a mini-profile about @pathoplexus & my being named as one of Nature's 'Ones to watch in 2025'! Have a short visit to my office and home, and hear a little about Pathoplexus! srf.ch/news/schweiz/r…

I am a researcher studying viruses. I have contributed to the sequencing of more than a million genomes deposited in the GISAID database. Last week I found that my access to bulk downloads from GISAID had been cut off without cause or explanation. [1/3]

Our research looking at an endogenous #CRISPR system in S. aureus is out in Spectrum! We see it excises together with the SCCMec and is easily overwhelmed by #phage @KasperMikkelse6 @HiIngmer @NinaMolinHK @duncan_ng @SvanbergFrida #sec-4" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/sp…

So happy to see this story from my PhD at the @IngmerLab out in the open. In addition, we found limited spacer diversity (23 spacers among 70 S. aureus isolates) and strong indications of #CRISPR horizontal transfer via #SCCmec type V. A great team performance🙏😍

Are you our new Executive Vice President for Diagnostic Preparedness? SSI is looking for a strategic & visionary person with i.a. professional recognition, one-health experience, leadership skills and ability to strengthen Diagnostic Preparedness at SSI ⤵️ candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationIni…

Benevolent dictators have no place in academic science. I don't care if they usually make the right decision. Or if people don't think they've abused their power yet. Science should not depend on one person being well-behaved. Balance should be built in, power distributed. 1/5

Proud to start 2023 with this great collaboration, where we demonstrate emerging resistance after dalbavancin exposure in Staphylococcus epidermidis isolated from PJIs. @MarcStegger @orebrouni @RegionVarmland academic.oup.com/jac/advance-ar…

Very interesting session on severe S. aureus infections hosted by @MarcStegger and Barbara Kahl at #ECCMID2022

Almost ready for #ECCMID2022

New preprint on #COVID19 is out: “Occurrence and significance of Omicron BA.1 infection followed by BA.2 reinfection”. Using the national surveillance system in Denmark, we show that reinfections with #SARSCoV2 VOC #Omicron BA.2 can occur after recent BA.1 infection #SSI_dk

New preprint on #COVID19 is out: “Occurrence and significance of Omicron BA.1 infection followed by BA.2 reinfection”. Using the national surveillance system in Denmark, we show that reinfections with #SARSCoV2 VOC #Omicron BA.2 can occur after recent BA.1 infection #SSI_dk

ℹ️ Translation of the chart: 'Død med' = Died with covid-19 'Død af' = Died because of covid-19 'Afventer dødsattest' = Awaiting the death certificate 'Endnu ikke valideret' = Not yet validated 'Kalenderuge' = Calendar week 'Kalendermåned' = Calendar month

New Preprint Out! “Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron VOC subvariants BA.1 and BA.2: Evidence from Danish Households” We investigate the secondary attack rate (SAR) in #Omicron BA.1 vs. BA.2 households in Demark, 20 December 2021 – 18 January 2022. medrxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/

Just published: Our Nature article shows that mecC MRSA dates more than 200 years back. I am grateful for the opportunity to be a part of this study through @SSI_dk! #mrsa #onehealth #mecC #hedgehog

Delighted to share our latest study on MRSA in Nature! In the study, we show that MRSA lineages carrying the mecC gene have co-existed with a penicillin-producing fungus in hedgehogs for the past 200 years. nature.com/articles/s4158…

New Preprint Out! SARS-CoV-2 Omicron VOC Transmission in Danish Households We investigate the secondary attack rate (SAR) in #Omicron vs #Delta households in Demark, 9th-19th December 2021. medrxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/N

Reporting on the first 785 SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant cases in Denmark is now out in EuroSurveillance eurosurveillance.org/content/10.280… Proud that the bioinformatics group is able to support and participate in such important work! @SSI_dk

Information on initial 785 cases of #Omicron in #Denmark - Cases between 2 - 95 years old - 55% male, 9 hospitalized, 1 needed ICU treatment - No deaths - 599 were fully vaccinated and 56 had vaccine plus booster (83% fully or booster vaccinated) eurosurveillance.org/content/10.280…