Important new role UK Health Security Agency - combination of technical skills, management & leadership required. Essential to shape future pathogen genomics robust analytical pipelines, engaging with academia & NHS. Deputy Director - Bioinformatics - Civil Service Jobs - GOV.UK

This looks incredibly useful...time to give it a try!

An amazing time at #Microbio24 . So good to see everyone again, meet some new faces, and of course hear some epic science!

Just a stone throw away from #Microbio24 I came across Joseph Lister's old house!

Now to find the home of another famous microbiologist in Liverpool next year...

Pseudovirus pro Professor Nigel Temperton 👨‍🎓🎧🇪🇺 ViralPseudotypeUnit on correlation between neutralisation assays, and work by Diego Cantoni amassing multitudes of the literature to show an agreement of ~0.8 between pseudo and live neuts: frontiersin.org/journals/immun…

#Microbio24

The excellent Dr Rebee Penrice-Randal giving her talk on bridging academia and industry, and flowing between them both, and how in turn it helps 😄 #microbio24

Looking forward to #Microbio24 in Edinburgh tomorrow. No science this time, but come listen about careers in public health research at UKHSA!

Hmm, this is quite worrying, especially when you think about it being used as part of elections, spreading fake news/conspiracies etc...

📣NEWSALERT! Our 2nd #LIPNsymposium is happening on the 10th of June 2024 at the Crick. Join us for a day of vibrant ECR science!
Details: shorturl.at/pvDG4
Free registration: shorturl.at/kET39
Submit your abstract (talk or poster): shorturl.at/ELX14
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We once had to empty 700,000 samples from our walk in freezer room at midnight, as the temperature dropped below our threshold...

Can't stress how much temperature probes are a life saver!

Ready for Human Immunology 2.0? Join the revolution! Multiple positions available in Atomic lab - all levels! #PhD #postdoc #researchers
👩‍💻tinyurl.com/atomicPostdoc1
🧑‍🔬tinyurl.com/atomicPostdoc2
🥷tinyurl.com/atomicSci
👩‍🔬👨‍💻atomic-lab.org/contact/

These are getting hilariously stupid now...

Asking me to present our Mpox immunology work at a recycling and waste management conference 🤷‍♂️

Interested in doing a PhD looking at determinants of coronavirus tropism? Please apply!

Project split between Coronaviruses and my group at The Pirbright Institute, and Davidson group at Bristol University. Please get in touch for more info and pass on to anyone who might be interested!

We are delighted to open registration for the The 20th UK Hepacivirus and Flavivirus Meeting, May 17th-19th 2024.

Join us in the Lake District, in the warmth and sunshine of May, for excellent virology and equally brilliant countryside.

Register here: flaviviridae.uk

Ahaha...Taylor Swift causing chaos, even for conferences!

We're recruiting a permanent Senior Scientist to lead our vector and sentinel animal research and surveillance on vector-borne and zoonotic viruses in our UKHSA Biosurveillance team. Salary £38,724 to £44,393. Apply by 19th Feb. Please share!
jobs.ac.uk/job/DFQ011/sen…

Do come join the excellent #JMedMicro editorial board!

#JMedMicro is looking for more Editors! We are looking for Editors with expertise in any of the following areas: antimicrobial resistance, disease diagnostics, microbiome including gut microbiome, tuberculosis, or clinical virology. Apply by 5 March: microb.io/48cqDYy

Great news...79.6% vaccine efficacy of a single dose tetravalent Dengue vaccine!

Reminder #3481 why #measles is a terrible disease:

After infection with measles your immune system basically forgets what you've been exposed to before, a sort of immunity reset!

science.org/doi/full/10.11…