Reminder that we are entering a high risk period for the introduction of avian influenza into Australia. Important that if you see a sick or dead bird (or marine mammal) to report it! Great video by NAQS can be found here: agriculture.gov.au/biosecurity-tr…

Our latest paper, by @uclrespiratory dream team Jo-Anne Wilson, Rachel Walters, Rachel Chambers and myself (as co-senior author!), with important contributions from Delphine Guillotin, Naftali Kaminski and Silvia Parolo, is out on bioRxiv Cell Biology! 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Thank you so much Diane Morgan for your incredible support and for being one of #HerbiesHeroes! 🙌

There's still time to vote in our Supporter’s Choice Award to decide which groundbreaking, animal-free research project deserves to win! Click the link to review the outstanding research projects nominated & vote - animalfreeresearchuk.org/supporterschoi… Voting closes 8 Nov!

Honoured to be shortlisted for this with Machaela Palor

I am on now on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/drclai…

Always my favourite session of British Thoracic Society (BTS) winter 6 amazing early career researchers go head to head for the Early Career Investigator Awards!

Emma Johnson and Tereza Masonou for the BALR early career researcher awards! Congratulations to both, and to the winners of the British Thoracic Society (BTS) awards and Asthma + Lung UK awards.

I'll be speaking this morning British Thoracic Society (BTS) in "A Winter's Tale" session about the model we have developed to study RSV infection in children which was funded by AnimalFreeResearchUK. Come find out more in Moore/4th at 11:05 #BTSwinter2024.

Drumroll please! 🥁 Crowned our top post, this study by Dr. Maximillian Woodall, Dr. Ana-Maria Cujba, and Dr. Kaylee Worlock at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health explores age-specific nasal epithelial responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection.👃 x.com/infdisease_new…

Meet Kaylee, a PhD student at UCL who won one of our travel awards last year to attend the ERS Congress. We are committed to funding #WomenInScience to further our understanding of lung research. Find out what she gets up to in her working day🧪#WomenInSTEM

🚨We're hiring 🚨 FY2 + NHS exp Clinical Research Fellow - SARS-CoV-2 Legacy study NIHR UCLH Biomedical Research Centre The Francis Crick Institute crick.ac.uk/legacy-study Deadline 6th May 2025 👇 apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/714… Please RT

The final talk in our exciting BTS/BALR symposium is from Dr Claire Smith UCL on using air-liquid interface culture to investigate viral infections! 🫁 #BTSWinter2025 #translationalscience