Our response to the article published on Forbes online on 16th May by William Haseltine: jenner.ac.uk/about/news/the…

You can't deny that Exeter College, Oxford has the best view in Oxford! 📸Xuan Wang

David Attenborough's credibility cannot be measured by human instruments. It is estimated to have a density beyond a neutron star and that a thimbleful of it would crush the earth. The books seem to snuggle in, joyful as they are crushed and absorbed. There is no greater honour.

An article I wrote on how yeast is being used to fight global health challenges has been published by v 😁 here's the link if you'd like to give it a read: oxsci.org/fighting-globa…

how i imagine the lab exiting during an actual fire

The new Porter is doing a great job 👍🏻

Kate Dicker from Castello Lab will talk on Saturday 4th in concurrent session 15 of the #RNA22 about our work on HIV and RBPs. Don't miss it!

Great talk by Kate Dicker from the Castello Lab on host RBPs that are encapsidated with the HIV genome! Unanticipated associations with interesting mechanisms that govern viral pathogenesis The RNA Society #RNA2022

Congratulations to Kate Dicker that defended her PhD thesis on the discovery of new regulators of HIV infection, working in the Castello Lab and Sattentau lab 🎉🥳🥳🥳. Time to celebrate 🍻🍻

Academia as depicted by…LOTR gifs: a thread.

Molecular components of the circadian clock regulate HIV-1 replication sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New preprint from the Castello Lab, showing that #HIV packages its genome with over 100 cellular #RBPs into viral particles. These proteins can play critical roles, e.g., PURA and PURB binds to key elements in HIV genome and enhances virion infectivity biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🧵We also elucidated the interactome of #Rev in HIV infected T cells. We show that many of the proteins that are packaged with the #HIV genome interact with Rev in the nucleus, likely remaining associated with the viral RNP until they are assembled into virions.

🧵🧵 This work has been carried out as the MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research and Department of Biochemistry at Oxford University, led by Manuel GM and Robin Truman with crucial contributions from colleagues from the Castello Lab, @FranklinSystems , ilandavislab and Emiliano Ricci labs.

Corrections finally done and the leave to supplicate letter came through, it's officially Dr Dicker 🥳

Our dear Kate Dicker is leaving for a new adventure. Despite a pandemic & a lab move from Department of Biochemistry at Oxford University to the MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research , she completed an excellent PhD and discovered a cellular protein that regulates HIV particle formation (stay tuned for the paper). We will miss you! 🍀🥲🥂