Hope the 6 year likes his Birthday Party 🎂!

Calling all DNA virologists: job opening closing soon 👇 kuleuven.be/personeel/jobs…

What’s not to love about French cooking 😚

Made it to Germany!

Less than 24 hours to go until #molmicro2022... 4 years worth of organising, unorganising, and reorganising through the pandemic to get to this point. It'll be great to finally see everyone in the morning. Big thanks to our almost 200 delegates for making this happen.

This takes “spying on your neighbours” to a whole other level !

As expected, the quality of science presented remained high also on the 2nd day. Many thanks to Jason Mercer (IMIBirmingham, UoB Biosciences), Yohei Yamauchi (ETH Zurich), Serge Mostowy & Ana Lopez Jimenez (both Mostowy Lab, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) for being with us this morning. #MLIDS Center for Advanced Systems Understanding at HZDR

The Worcester Cathedral Christmas Tree Festival features trees decorated by local schools & other organisations. Ours celebrates the life of Leo and aims to reflect things he loved; nature, the colour green and the great outdoors. Admission is free until 8 Jan: tinyurl.com/TreeFest22

We miss you Leo at Christmas and every day. 🎄💚

💥 Out now Science Magazine. @DanielHFisch solves the mystery of bystander cell protection during infection. An exciting mechanism, cells are so smart! PIM1 controls GBP1 activity to limit self-damage and to guard against pathogen infection | Science science.org/doi/full/10.11…

Today we opened the wonderful play ship for the HanburyCofEFirst children in Leo’s memory. 💚 All made possible by resources, work and enthusiasm of our friends, community and the school. 😍 We are grateful Leo’s ship will bring years of fun to the kids. 🙏

Congratulations to Laura Pokorny who shows that virus binding proteins aren’t just for binding! Just out in EMBO Reports Thanks to all who contributed! Jemima Burden Yorgo Modis David Albrecht Becky Bamford,Kendra Leigh,Pooja Sridhar,Timothy Knowles embopress.org/doi/full/10.10…

Really happy to see this work out and peer reviewed. Thanks a lot to everyone involved. Here is a happy bleb to entice you into reading our deep dive into vaccinia virus binding!

Congratulations to @SamolejJ who shows that bisbenzimides block replication of prototype (vaccinia) and pandemic potential (mpox) poxviruses! Just out in Microbiology Spectrum journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/sp… Excellent collaboration with Blair Strang MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research LifeArc and Artur Yakimovich

Bisbenzimide compounds inhibit replication of prototype and pandemic potential poxviruses! @SamolejJ has extended our understanding of these novel poxvirus inhibitors Blair Strang Jason Mercer Artur Yakimovich mpox work by @cvr_crush journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/sp…

And another one for @SamolejJ! Here he shows how cardiac glycosides (think toad venom) inhibit poxvirus infection. Just out in JGV Microbiology Society microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa… Great working with Blair Strang and Ian White once again!!

Paper out with former UCL Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology colleagues @SamolejJ and Jason Mercer Cardiac glycosides inhibit early and late vaccinia virus protein expression - go.shr.lc/3J1e2NC

Congratulations to Melanie Krause for her paper just out in Journal of Cell Biology! See her twittorial below and thanks to all the great collaborations 🙏

🔥 Open postdoc position in human inflammation-driven control of infection! Join me at the University of Geneva, Switzerland this summer as I’m moving my Wellcome-funded research activity to the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine! Please RT (1/5)