First trip to the Gates foundation. Can’t believe I get to be part of such an amazing team making the next rotavirus vaccine.
Sarah Caddy
@drsarahcaddy.bsky.social
Vet, Viral Immunologist and Assistant Professor at the Baker Institute for Animal Health, Cornell NY. Fascinated by viruses, antibodies and vaccines. www.caddylab.org
The American Society for Virology (ASV) is dedicated to advancing knowledge of viruses and the diseases they cause. ASV does not support the scaling back of the childhood vaccine schedule recently announced by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. See our statement attached.
This is terrible news for the future of veterinary research. The world class introduction to research I received whilst a vet student at the University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk cannot be replicated elsewhere in the UK www.vettimes.com/news/vets/we...
University of Cambridge recommends vet school closure
Final cohort would graduate in 2032, as university said it found “no viable long-term solution” for “the sustainable delivery of clinical services”.
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The paradox of maternal antibodies; protection v interference. Our first paper in this fascinating field is out! www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
Mechanisms of maternal antibody interference with rotavirus vaccination | The EMBO Journal
imageimageMaternal antibodies are correlated with a reduced ability of infants to produce antibodies following oral rotavirus vaccination. This interference is attributed in this study primarily to va...
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Rotavirus legends at the 15th International Rotavirus symposium! 🥹
First visit to our collaborators at the inspirational Center for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia! Such a privilege to see where some of the infant samples we study have come from.
Thanks for another brilliant ASV annual meeting @amersocvirology.bsky.social! The Caddy lab had a fabulous time 😍
A hybrid coronavirus, formed of cat and dog coronaviruses, caused a severe outbreak of disease among cats in Cyprus, researchers found. Their work, in Nature, showed how this new virus was able to cause widespread cases of Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP) among the island’s cats.
Coronavirus causes fatal disease outbreak in cats | The Roslin Institute | The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies
A harmful strain of coronavirus has caused a fast-spreading outbreak of a harmful feline disease.
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Huge congratulations to my postdoc mentor - Leo James FRS!
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology@mrclmb.ac.uk · last yr.Congratulations to LMB Group Leaders Leo James, Greg Jefferis & Marta Zlatic who have been elected Fellows of the @royalsociety.org! Congratulations also to the #LMBAlumni joining them: John Briggs, Graham Hatfull & Baljit Khakh. Read more: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/leo-james-gr... #LMBNews
Terry Dermody and I wrote an op-ed about chronic diseases ("Make America Healthy Again"), the role of viral infections, and how virologists can help. www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...
Terrence S. Dermody and Julie K. Pfeiffer: To tackle chronic disease, turn to the virologists
Despite the United States being a global leader in many areas, Americans are not healthy. Life expectancy is lower than in other industrialized nations,...
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🚨Job alert 🚨 I am looking for an enthusiastic & talented postdoctoral researcher to join our research team in Hamilton, MT, USA. If you are interested in 🦠 emerging respiratory viruses (BSL2-4), 🔬mucosal immunology, and 🐁 in vivo studies, Check out: www.training.nih.gov/jobs/pdpmire...
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Cheers to our 3y reappointment on tenure track - so grateful to be on this journey at #Cornell alongside Assistant Profs Colleen Lau and Andrew Flyak 🤩
After 8 months of peer review, our manuscript was published today @nature.com showing that bovine H5N1 viruses bind poorly to human-type sialic acid receptors. We now know that the virus is only 1 HA substitution away from efficiently binding human receptors. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bovine H5N1 binds poorly to human-type sialic acid receptors - Nature
Nature - Bovine H5N1 binds poorly to human-type sialic acid receptors
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View from my office. What the heck April in Ithaca?! Never imagined I’d be missing spring weather in England…
Such a pleasure to visit my inspirational #rotavirus mentor Ulrich Desselberger at home with his wife Elizabeth. I can’t imagine a kinder or wiser virologist.
Fabulous talk on 30,000 year old viruses by @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social at #microbio25. Thanks Charlotte!
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Excited to be on a red-eye flight to LHR for @microbiologysociety.org! Travelling without kids is a cinch! microbiologysociety.org/event/annual...
Annual Conference 2025
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Great to hear this rotavirus paper discussed on #TWiV @microbetv.bsky.social. We covered this in a recent lab meeting and agree the graphical abstract is very eye-catching! www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
Innate immune sensing of rotavirus by intestinal epithelial cells leads to diarrhea
Hou et al. demonstrate in an infant mouse model that innate immune sensing of enteric viruses induces IFN-λ signaling, which downregulates an apical chloride exchanger that leads to increased intestin...
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3/3 abstracts for ASV 2025 accepted in my lab today 🤩 Thanks to the abstract reviewing team! Montreal here we come…
This conversation with Bill Gates is now several months old, but is highly worth listening to. Great discussion about rotavirus vaccines. #inspiring. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Bill Gates on vaccines, conspiracy theories and the pleasures of pickleball
Podcast Episode · The Life Scientific · 20/08/2024 · 36m
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The maternal antibody paradox: how are these antibodies both good and bad? Excited to share our new insights for rotavirus vaccines www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Mechanisms of maternal antibody interference to rotavirus vaccination
Maternal antibodies (MatAbs) are transferred transplacentally during pregnancy and through breast milk after birth to provide protection whilst the neonatal immune response is immature. However, MatAb...
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Glad to have played a small part in this big story! Studying the differences between CD28 in humans and mice reveal reasons for the disastrous 2006 trial www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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We are looking for new colleagues! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29722 I can’t recommend the Microbiology and Immunology Department at Cornell Ithaca highly enough.
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Glad to be spending the day at SUNY Upstate talking about wierd and wonderful antibodies. Syracuse really feels like a metropolis after Ithaca!
Yes it’s cold, but we love Ithaca! Taughannock Falls were incredible yesterday.
Christmas lab celebrations from 2024 compared to 2023! Wonderful to have new faces of all ages!!
