Carol Sheppard (@dr_shepp) 's Twitter Profile
Carol Sheppard

@dr_shepp

Molecular virologist with a passion for polymerases. Advocator for equality and environmental sustainability and anything that can be done from a hammock.

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Niko McCarty 🧫 (@nikomccarty) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Synonymous mutations have massive effects on protein activity. Never knew that. Take a protein & make a fast + slow-translated version. For one enzyme, fast translation caused 20% drop in activity. Simulation + experiments show "entangled states." Weird. nature.com/articles/s4155…

Synonymous mutations have massive effects on protein activity. Never knew that.

Take a protein & make a fast + slow-translated version.

For one enzyme, fast translation caused 20% drop in activity. Simulation + experiments show "entangled states." Weird. nature.com/articles/s4155…
Daniel Goldhill (@influenzal) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨🚨PHD ALERT🚨🚨 Interested in viruses? Want to combine lab work, bioinformatics with a dash of structural biology? Discover how avian influenza adapts to mammals! 4-year funded PhD with me and Damien Tully at Royal Veterinary College (RVC) and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Please apply - findaphd.com/phds/project/b…

Ramesh Wigneshweraraj (@wig_r) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A 1-year postdoc position available in my group. Looking for someone with molecular bacteriology background and very good knowledge of RNA-seq data analysis or single molecule microscopy. Start 04/23. DM for details.

Carol Sheppard (@dr_shepp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It's only taken 5 years of working at St Mary's hospital but finally visited the Alexander Fleming museum - birth place of Penicillin.

It's only taken 5 years of working at St Mary's hospital but finally visited the Alexander Fleming museum - birth place of Penicillin.
Nature Biotechnology (@naturebiotech) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Happy National DNA Day!🧬 In this @nature Comment, newly discovered documents reveal Rosalind Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved, but an equal player nature.com/articles/d4158…

Veera Rajagopal  (@doctorveera) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A mind-blowing paper has come out today in nature In 2016, JC Venter Institute scientists trimmed a bacterial genome to its barest minimum required for life to synthesize what they called a "minimal genome" (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…). Today, a group of scientists from

A mind-blowing paper has come out today in <a href="/Nature/">nature</a>  

In 2016, JC Venter Institute scientists trimmed a bacterial genome to its barest minimum required for life to synthesize what they called a "minimal genome" (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…). 

Today, a group of scientists from
The Royal Society (@royalsociety) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A new Royal Society scheme to kickstart the independent research careers of researchers from groups underrepresented in UK STEM will open for applications this autumn: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/news/2023/09/c…

A new Royal Society scheme to kickstart the independent research careers of researchers from groups underrepresented in UK STEM will open for applications this autumn: #RSGrants  royalsociety.org/news/2023/09/c…
Daniel Goldhill (@influenzal) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨 Are you a recent Master’s graduate? Interested in evolution of viruses? Want to do 12 months of research? Have molecular lab experience? Please apply here – jobs.rvc.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r… Job closes very soon! Please forward if you know someone suitable.

Carol Sheppard (@dr_shepp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Understanding the mechanisms of FluPol regulation by host proteins has been keen to responsibly designing novel therapeutic approaches. Excited to finally share our back-to-back Nat Comms papers!

Alewo Akoh (@alewo24) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In this article, I discuss the potential of using gene editing to eliminate bird flu in chickens to reduce economic losses, improve animal welfare and safeguard public health theconversation.com/bird-flu-could… via The Conversation Africa

Vanessa Sancho-Shimizu (@sanchoshimizu) 's Twitter Profile Photo

*****JOB ALERT***** Research Assisstant with expertise in computational biology wanted to work on cohorts of patients with viral infections 1yr post at St Marys Campus Imperial College London Centre for Paediatrics & Child Health DM for more info