Professor Jurgen Haas was on the BBC radio Good Morning Scotland programme this morning talking about the coronavirus outbreak in China (skip to 2:13:00): bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… A TV interview will be boardcast tonight at 6:30pm on Reporting Scotland.

#Coronaviruses are a family of viruses that can infect a range of hosts. They are known to cause diseases including the common cold, SARS and MERS in humans. You can find relevant research on this topic in this journal collection which is freely available: microb.io/2O2AsC2

Please share far and wide: a free, open access, flexible research protocol for clinicians who want to run their own studies of nCoV2019. If we harmonise sampling globally we can combine independent work. The ISARIC clinical characterisation protocol: isaric.tghn.org/CCP

Steroids are still in wide use for nCoV infection (as with SARS and MERS). But WHO recommend against, and the balance of evidence suggests harm. Clark Russell Johnny Millar and I summarise the evidence in this paper, published a few minutes ago: thelancet.com/lancet/article…

courtesy of The Grey Lab , the scientific definition of irony

Save the date!!! 25th Glasgow Virology Workshop is happening on the 4th of Sept, 2020! We have some awesome scientists that we’ll reveal in time. A day that showcases groundbreaking science, promotes young scientists and ends with a ceilidh. I love it!! #GVW2020 @cvrinfo

MicroSoc 2020 still to go ahead! I hope to see you all in Edinburgh! Please RT Response to concerns about the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) | Microbiology Society microbiologysociety.org/news/society-n…

Our paper is out on bioRxiv describing our SARS CoV2-human protein-protein interaction map and drug predictions from the data. It was a honor to work with so many fantastic scientists around the world. -Nevan biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our paper describing CpG composition of SARS-CoV-2 in context with other CoVs now up on BioRxiv. Take aways: Huge diversity in CpG composition across CoVs E ORF and ORF10 have lots of CpGs, host derived No evidence for SARS-CoV-2 being adapted in canines biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

A latest update on the relationship between PML bodies and HCMV IE1 protein. The study provides initial evidence for the idea that disruption of PML bodies upon viral infection is linked to activation rather than inhibition of innate immunity! journals.plos.org/plospathogens/…

Are you a non-virologist PhD/postdoc interested in doing a virology PhD? If so, please chat to us about this opportunity: hfsp.org/funding/hfsp-f…. Our lab works on influenza A virus, rotaviruses and now SARS-CoV-2!

Check out our most recent review on Systems Virology and Human Cytomegalovirus: Using High Throughput Approaches to Identify Novel Host-Virus Interactions During Lytic Infection. #HCMV #Review #HTS frontiersin.org/article/10.338…

Despite a slight Covid delay, our paper is now live on PLoS Path. Excellent work by Yao-Tang Lin and Stephen Chiweshe and collaboration with Peter Simmonds and @WilsonLabCVR. “Human cytomegalovirus avoids detection by ZAP and TRIM25 regulates ZAP splicing.” journals.plos.org/plospathogens/…

We have found some robust new discoveries about Covid-19 in GenOMICC, which have potential therapeutic relevance. Readers outside of the genomics community will want to wait for peer review before acting on these findings. Preprint here for specialists: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Registration now open!! We are delighted to invite you to the virtual edition of the 9th Annual Edinburgh Infectious Diseases Symposium! eidsymposium2020.eventbrite.co.uk Biological Sciences | University of Edinburgh The Roslin Institute @ScienceUoE Usher Institute @EdinUni_MeetCIR UoE Infection Medicine Keith Matthews Ross Fitzgerald @MRC_IGMM

Big shout out to our ex-PhD student Abraham who has been selected as a finalist of Young Microbiologist of the Year competition!! He will present his talk on Wed 25th November. #YMOY2020 microbiologysociety.org/news/society-n…

Check out Abraham’s video for entering the 2020 Sir Howard Dalton Young Microbiologist of the Year competition. You can also check out other finalists’ videos on microbiologysociety.org/news/society-n… Good luck to Abraham! 👍🏻 #YMOY2020

Now recruiting!! Wellcome 4-year PhD programme in Hosts, Pathogens and Global Health The University of Edinburgh Projects focusing on the immunology, epidemiology, evolutionary biology and ecology of infection. Apply now! edin.ac/2oDtl9z WT-HPGH Keith Matthews Biological Sciences | University of Edinburgh

"Hematopoietic cell-mediated dissemination of murine cytomegalovirus is regulated by NK cells and immune evasion" New work from The Grey Lab The Roslin Institute, Shunchuan Zhang Christopher Snyder Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center and colleagues. buff.ly/3oAYiog

A recent review written by our lab. Check it out -