Jacqueline Smith

📣New Research Topic open for submission! Accepting manuscripts on topics related to host innate immune responses to avian- and bat-borne viruses. Led by Dr. Efstathios Giotis (University of Essex), Jacqueline Smith (Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh) and Xing-Yi Ge (Hunan University). ➡️See more and submit: fro.ntiers.in/iCWk 🗓️Deadline: 29th October 2025

Congratulations to all co-authors on publication of this paper investigating regions of the chicken genome potentially involved in HPAI resistance #chicken #flu #HPAI #H5N2 @roslininstitute @MDPIOpenAccess mdpi.com/1422-0067/25/1…

A single nuclei study of chicken immune organs. Now on #BioRxiv. A great genomics resource - congratulations to all authors 🐔 doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

H5N1 Is Increasingly Adapting to Mammals New preprint "shows clear mammal-to-mammal transmission of the virus." Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… UC Davis report: ucdavis.edu/health/news/h5…

A genome assembly for the Lapland Longspur is now available in NCBI: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/genom… #avian #genome #NCBI @wzuhou @SimoneMeddle @krausejs

Delighted to announce that a new @nf_core preprint manuscript has just gone live! A collaboration with @EuroFaang, the paper covers updates to @nextflowio and @nf_core, and describes the experience of the @EuroFaang adopted @nf_core. Let's dive in...🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I am co-editing a Special Issue in Applied Sciences entitled 'Applied Genomics and Bioinformatics for the Poultry Industry'. If you have a suitable paper, then please consider publishing here. Deadline: 20th September 2024 mdpi.com/journal/applsc…

@DrWigley 😄

@smithjac7 @darrenkgriffin Learned a new word there!

An excellent review of avian chromosome evolution @darrenkgriffin doi.org/10.3390/cells1…

@LVervelde You will be missed Lonneke x

Today was the last day in the office @roslininstitute big thank you to the kind colleagues who made me feel happy and safe during the good but especially during the darker times #MentalHealthMatters

We are hiring - job vacancy in Edinburgh Genomics lab. Come and join the amazing team here. Click link for more details elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

A new duck genome assembly: bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… #duck #genome @BMCBiology

Congratulations to @RachmanMifta on her very nice paper on selective sweep analysis of heat stress in Nigerian chickens @OlivierHanotte @TadelleD and Almas and Oladeji #chicken #heatstress #genome nature.com/articles/s4159…

Last week to apply...

The white crowned sparrow genome is now available! Congratulations to @wzuhou and all co-authors @SimoneMeddle @KasiaMiedzinska @krausejs @J_H_Perez #johnwingfield #scientificreports #sparrow #genome rdcu.be/dwiKY

@StevenFiddaman Great! Hopefully catchup with you Steven

@smithjac7 We’re at PAG too!

Great Poultry workshop today at #PAG31. Excellent talks from all the speakers