My favourite discovery ever has just come online. Can I please tell you about some seriously wacky molecular biology? The story starts with a reverse transcriptase that SOMEHOW defends bacteria from viruses. (👇 I recommend sound ON for the video 🎹) 1/

6 main figs and 5 supplementary figs .

Here's some of our data out in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, with the main take home message being that LFDs for emerging pathogens should be validated independently. Especially if LFDs are to be used for surveillance studies/diagnostics Data:thelancet.com/journals/lanin…

💡With Mary Wu and the COVID Surveillance Unit The Francis Crick Institute, we tested AlphaProteo against SARS-CoV-2 Spike... binders can neutralise virus as well! Amazing, given just 1 plate of screening was involved. ⏩ thread & blog below ⏩ white paper: storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media…

An expert virologist prepares lab grade virus preps (measles and VSV) & self treats her recurrent breast cancer. What happened next? Apart from an ethical minefield! The reviewers comments & rebuttals are also published and make for an interesting read... mdpi.com/2076-393X/12/9…

Many of the epi/public health people I follow on here (and you might as well) are now much more active on 🟦sky – in case you're wondering where the party might be going...

Full scholarship available for a curious PhD student to take on one of the most interesting topics in virology: how do capsid proteins assemble into particles with different geometries? Use native MS and cryo-EM with Michael Landsberg ❄️⚛️🔬 at UQ to find out! 🔗griffith.edu.au/research-study…

Looking for a faculty position in infectious diseases? Want to join a fantastic group of colleagues in beautiful Madison, WI? Check out the tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Pathobiological Sciences at UW-Madison! ⬇️ jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assistant…

JOB: Apply innovative technologies for improved control of a major avian pathogen, the gammacoronavirus infectious bronchitis virus (IBV). We're looking for a Research Scientist ➡️pirbright.ac.uk/jobs/research-…

'Virology—The next fifty years' - a perspective by Eddie Holmes, Felicia Goodrum🇺🇦 and myself in Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

A hard question and a very fun project with Eddie Holmes and Florian Krammer. #LoveVirology. Lots of great stuff in here…what did we miss? Virology—The next fifty years: Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Sandwich student applications are open until 9 October! We’re looking for motivated undergraduates studying biology, physics, chemistry, engineering, maths or computer science to join a Crick research group or facility for their placement year 🧪📊🔬 crick.ac.uk/careers-study/…

Now open! Incl an IgA nephropathy project in my group. We will fill in gaps in pathogenesis, aiming to better match new/upcoming drugs to each patient, and to find angles for next generation of treatments to remedy. Please get in touch if you want more info.

🧪 "chronogram: an R package for data curation and analysis of infection and vaccination cohort studies" is a new tool for integrating and analyzing complex cohort data to support pandemic policy-making. doi.org/10.1093/bioadv… Josh Nikita Sahadeo David LV Bauer

Free scientific illustrations for biologists! 😍 NIH has released a library of 500+ free scientific illustrations to create figures, presentations, and illustrations! all freely available in the public domain. Retweet and spread the message! bioart.niaid.nih.gov

Just a reminder that the US Bill of Rights (1791) is also 94% AI generated. Show this to people who trust the reliability of AI detection tools.

🚨We’re hiring 🚨 Exciting opportunity for a talented post-doctoral virologist #SARSCoV2 #Influenza UK Research and Innovation PROVAC consortium The Francis Crick Institute Mary Wu COVID Surveillance Unit & World Health Organization (WHO) Worldwide Influenza Centre *Please apply and RT* 3rd Feb 2025 👇 crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/L…