I hated doing PCRs 🧬 as an undergraduate… Now, as a postdoc, I’ve done thousands of PCRs 🧬… Here are 10 tips to do perfect PCRs:

📢 RELAUNCH | Go and follow our CVR Presents: Research Goes Viral to keep up to date with our #SciComm platform! Find out more: cvr-engagement.co.uk/rgv-home Listen to our new podcast with Stephen Devlin, Anna Sims & Anice Lowen using the links below 👇

📃 NEW PUBLICATION | Using #ArtificialIntelligence to reveal the secrets of #HepC Virus entry Kamilla Toon , #MichaelOliver & colleagues use #alphafold to uncover a potentially novel fusion mechanism in the Hepaci-, Pegi- and Pestiviruses Read here: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

Hey look! The first paper I'm an author on just got released! Pretty cool paper if I do say so myself! Shout out to all involved: @GroveLab Kamilla Toon #MichaelOliver, Charlotte Lewis and Robert Gifford who all did the heavy lifting!

"It's important for people know that you can live a normal life so there's no reason to be scared.” Emma, a mum of two who is living with HIV and our Living Well Specialist SpecialGuestVillainess🏳️‍⚧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 spoke to BBC Scotland News on the importance of our new anti-stigma campaign with Scottish Government.

How is it that four years later, thousands of you are celebrating the anniversary of our "large boulder" Tweet?

📢 EVENT | #GlasgowVirologyWorkshop Come along for a day of interesting talks & discussions. Speakers: Clive McKimmie (VHIT) 🦟🦠🐁, @fayewatson94, Lucy Thorne, Aris Katzourakis & Anastasia Komarova 📅 4 June 2024 📍 Sir Charles Wilson Building Info & register: gla.ac.uk/research/az/cv…

Thank you to Anna Sims for being a silly goose with me! And to Lois Mason 👩🏻‍🔬 for her amazing editing/videography! Diego Cantoni and #MichaelOliver also deserve thanks for their amazing camera work too! Please enjoy (and know it's all meant in good fun!)

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

First Time at Microbiology Society annual conference! Thank you to anyone who came to see me speak about HCV E2 and its wobbly (but maybe not so wobbly(?!)) HVR-1! You know it was a great talk because my boss @GroveLab looks REALLY engaged haha!!

🎙️ NEW PODCAST | #CVRMeets Nerea Irigoyen 👩🏻‍🔬🦠🦟🇪🇺🍉 Nerea provides an inside look at her career, her pioneering ribosomal profiling work and her experiences transitioning to independence. She also shares valuable guidance for Early Career Researchers. bit.ly/RGV_NereaIrigo…

Deadline has been extended until 1st May! Get your abstracts in!