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David Winter @dwinter.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Cool slow-burning story I got to be a little part of www.phfscience.nz/news-publica... Way back in 2010 the enteric lab here at PHF Science got a Yersinia isoalte that quite fit with what we expect from Y. enterocolitica. We got a few more of these over time and built some tools to track them

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Back to the future: discovery of a new bacterial species, decades in the making

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David Winter @dwinter.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

We have three wet lab genomics positions open, all supporting our sequencing for public health Two permanent snr tech roles will be trained for accredited Illumina and ONT workflows (apply for both) nzcris.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/nzcris... nzcris.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/nzcris... (1/2)

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Senior Technician

Te tūnga | The role We have a permanent opportunity for a Senior Technician to join the fast-paced Genomics & Bioinformatics group at our Kenepuru Science Centre in Porirua. In this role you will ...

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David Winter @dwinter.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Haven't really moved to bluesky,but had to jump on to highlight this cool result from Joanne's team . We have been watching BA.3.2, a highly divergent COVID linage, closely. Wastewater was the first to find it in NZ, with enough resolution to know where it fits among lineages from Australia.

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David Winter @dwinter.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

Last sequencing run of 2023 about to go on here @ ESR , time for a little review of what we achieved this year before we get stuck into analysing them... First a whole year of COVID genomics:

And epidemological curve of COVID-19 cases in NZ, shaded estimated numbers of cases caused by each variant.

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David Winter @dwinter.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

4.5 yo's most endearing trait right now is point blank rejecting any time I say I'm doing a bad job. -do we have any snacks? -no sorry, didn't put them in the swim bag: bad Dadding there -No. You're a good Dad. It's OK!

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David Winter @dwinter.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

First little output from a very cool project with Max Bloomfield @ Wellington Hospital. Max is using Nanopore sequencing to help Infection Control teams spot transmission on or between wards. Max does the bulk of the work, and ESR is ready for any tricky bionfo problems: doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...

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David Winter @dwinter.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

I guess our public covid report is going to be the thing that makes me finally send a message here... www.esr.cri.nz/our-expertis... This month has seen the kākāpō palette really come together as EG.5 became our most common variant. NZ and Aus remain really unusual in having room for XBC...

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