Congratulations to Dr Kasim Waraich on a successful thesis defence. It was never in doubt. Thanks also to Ed Morris and Yorgo Modis for taking the time to read and examine Kasim's thesis.

I had so much fun Stephen Devlin 💖💖 Thank you for giving me an outlet for my silly goose energy

Very happy to announce that our paper describing mutational signature dynamics in SARS-CoV-2 is out PLOS Comp Biol! Using the huge number of available sequences, we uncover a shifting landscape of mutational signatures operating throughout the pandemic! journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

📃 NEW PUBLICATION | New research from Kieran Lamb, Martha Luka & colleagues uses advanced computational analysis to analyse over 13 million sequences & reveal that our antiviral defences generate #SARSCoV2 mutations. Read: doi.org/10.1371/journa… Watch the authors here 👇

It was amazing to get to sit down with the lovely and very inspiring wendybarclay and get to talk about culture, equality and collaboration. Thank you for your time, and thank you to my fab co-host Stephen Devlin 💕 Happy international women's day everyone 🌷🌷

Very proud to say that I’ve passed my viva (with minor corrections)! I couldn’t have done this without my amazing supervisors Ben Brennan, Alfredo Castello and the Brennan Lab CVR 🦠🕷🦟🔬🧫 and Castello Lab 🔬Special thank you to my examiners Brian Willett Pierre-Yves Lozach #PhDone

I did it! Well, *we* did it! Thank you to everyone that supported me over the years, my supervisor Hutchinson Lab, my colleagues, my collaborators, my examiners, my family and friends 💕🌷

Grateful to have had the opportunity to present (for the first time) my ongoing PhD research investigating the extraordinary ways in which IAVs can spread between cells. Thank you to the Microbiology Society for providing me with a slot in such a special session! #microbio24

A wonderful article by Carl Zimmer highlighting some of the nice work going on in the sociovirology community

The best to ever do it Daniel Weir 🥳🥳🥳🥳 Super well deserved, and good luck in the final 👏👏

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And we're off! The Social Lives of Viruses Meeting starts now. Asher Leeks kicks it off with welcoming remarks and introduction. #SocialViruses #PuertoRico

Delighted to have made it to Puerto Rico for #SocialViruses. I can't believe my insane flight connections paid off - including maybe the first time ever that an easyJet flight landed early 🫣✈️

🥇 | Virology student Daniel Weir was awarded best overall poster in the morning session for 'Imaging of influenza A virus infection reveals the importance of direct cell-to-cell spread'.

Congratulations to Ed Hutchinson who has been promoted to Professor! Find out about Ed's research: gla.ac.uk/research/az/cv… Hutchinson Lab

Our new preprint showing how protein language models (PLMs) can help us understand viral proteins is now available! We used ESM-2 to investigate what PLMs know about the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein from a single sequence to evolutionary trajectories. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…