Yi‐Mo Deng

The study sampled skuas on the Antarctic Peninsula and found HPAI H5N1 in all but one carcass, indicating the virus is established in Antarctica despite low prevalence.

The paper analyzes the antigenic evolution of influenza B virus hemagglutinin over 8 decades, identifying epistatic networks that balance antigenic novelty with viral fitness.

The study surveils migratory shorebirds and seabirds in Australia in 2024, finding no HPAI H5N1 but detecting diverse LPAI viruses, including mosaic H3N7 and H4N7 from Red-necked Stints and a Eurasian H1N7.

This paper develops an improved long amplicon method for nanopore-based RSV whole genome sequencing, achieving 85.9% success rate and comparable results to short amplicon methods.

The paper develops a simplified amplicon-based method for whole genome sequencing of RSV viruses, achieving high success rates and coverage with reduced cost and time.