We finally have a full analysis on an economic/ecological perspective on the natural origin of #SARS_CoV_2 right before Dec 2019. With agricultural economist Wei Xia, @blJOg @robertson_lab To share it early we put it as a preprint: preprints.org/manuscript/202… 1/n The spillover of a virus from one host species to another requires both molecular and ecological risk factors to align. 2/n

My group has a fully funded #phdscholarship (Worldwide, University of Liverpool PhD programme) working with me on cancer evolution at Suzhou (XJTLU). The project will look at cancer genomic/clinical data by extending an existing evolutionary framework (DOI:10.1098/rsob.190297) 1 We have a multidisciplinary supervisory team to help: Dr. Jason Parsons (Cancer clinical scientist), Dr. Pascal Grange (Mathematician/Theoretical physicist), Dr. Jia Meng (Bioinformatician). Please PM me for more details. 2

华南农业大学、岭南现代农业科学与技术广东省实验室沈永义教授、肖立华教授等科研人员联合中国人民解放军军事科学院军事医学研究院杨瑞馥研究员及广州动物园科研部陈武高级兽医师开展的最新研究表明，穿山甲为新型冠状病毒潜在中间宿主。这一最新发现将对新型冠状病毒的源头防控具有重大意义 #nCoV2019 The latest research conducted by South China Agricultural University, Lingnan Modern Agricultural Science and Technology Guangdong Provincial Laboratory, Professor Shen Yongyi, and Professor Xiao Lihua, 1/3

We are sharing our initial analysis of the new #Wuhan #coronavirus (with @robertson_lab): #nCoV’s relationship to bat coronaviruses & recombination signals. Full analysis is here on virological: virological.org/t/ncovs-relati… @MackayIM @FluTrackers @HelenBranswell @Laurie_Garrett @robertson_lab @MackayIM @FluTrackers @HelenBranswell @Laurie_Garrett Focus of our analysis is on the Wuhan-Hu-1 virus (accession no. MN908947, released on GenBank by Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center and School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China) as all nCoV cluster together so will share the same evolutionary ancestry. 1/n