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Please share 🚨 We have a postdoc position open on avian influenza virus tracking and genomics across natural to develop an early-warning system to protect human and animal health hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

Proud supervisor post 📣 Congratulations to @cvrinfo.bsky.social Clinical Viral Epidemiology Group student @mhairijan.bsky.social who graduated with a PhD on SARS-CoV-2 sero- epidemiology across urban and rural cohorts in Malawi. 🥳🎓🙌 If anyone is looking for a talented post-doc, look no further!

A great collaboration with Morgan Herod and colleagues in Leeds. Thermally stable murine norovirus shows a delayed uncoating phenotype, with cryoEM led by Lee Sherry and Charlotte Lewis at the @cvrinfo.bsky.social.

bioRxiv Microbiology@biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · last mo.

Enhanced inter-chain hydrogen bonding in the murine norovirus VP1 capsid leads to increased particle stability and delayed viral uncoating https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.30.735626v1

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prepare for future epidemics and protect global health 🌍 Find out more about this important step in strengthening global health security via the link in our bio or this link 👇 www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... #TeamUofG #MVLS #Virology #GlobalHealth #HealthSecurity #Research

UofG, UKHSA and Pirbright Institute forge strategic partnership to strengthen UK epidemic preparedness

The University of Glasgow, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and The Pirbright Institute have signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), establishing a strategic partnership which will…

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The Viral Research Institutes (VRI) will bring together leading expertise in human and animal viruses, supporting a One Health approach to understanding and responding to emerging viral threats. Through collaboration, research and training, this partnership will help strengthen the UK’s ability to

UofG, UKHSA and Pirbright Institute forge strategic partnership to strengthen UK epidemic preparedness

The University of Glasgow, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and The Pirbright Institute have signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), establishing a strategic partnership which will…

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🧬 A major step forward for epidemic preparedness The University of Glasgow has joined forces with the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and The Pirbright Institute to create a new strategic partnership focused on virology research, health security and training the next generation of scientists.

Check out our recent publication assessing feline coronavirus serology across the UK. This is the first first-author publication of @cvrinfo.bsky.social MRes turned PhD student Hagar Sasvari. The first of many! #Virology

Microbiology Society@microbiologysociety.org · last mo.

Serological response to feline coronavirus in the UK domestic cat population. Published Open Access and fee-free in JGV using a Publish and Read agreement: https://doi.org/10.1099/jgv.0.002270 #PublishandRead #JGV

Cats: the ultimate pets and scientific heroes. 🐱 Studying feline viruses to identify innovative solutions to prevent human infections. #preprint by @cb99-lewis.bsky.social, @dbhella.bsky.social & team #microbiology #preLight by @orestissavva.bsky.social: prelights.biologists.com/highlights/i...

Inhibition of VP2-mediated entry: a potential antiviral strategy to treat or prevent calicivirus disease - preLights

Cats: the ultimate pets and scientific heroes. Researchers are studying feline viruses to identify innovative solutions to prevent human infections

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Not often you get to say two papers dropped the same day 😱🎉🥳🍾 Incredibly proud of both — great science, amazing collaborators, and a lot of hard work 💪 #Virology #Bunyavirus #EmergingViruses

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Fantastic to have this out! As ever, I'm immensely grateful to all co-authors for their support, advice, and resource provision. This was a real collaborative effort, and highlights the potential of VP2 as a viable target for calicivirus antivirals- exciting stuff!

David Bhella@dbhella.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Amazing work from Charlotte Lewis - our latest preprint describes structure guided development of an antiviral peptide, targeting VP2 portal assembly - a strategy that may have broad application to treat or prevent calicivirus disease. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Amazing work from Charlotte Lewis - our latest preprint describes structure guided development of an antiviral peptide, targeting VP2 portal assembly - a strategy that may have broad application to treat or prevent calicivirus disease. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Really happy to see this paper out now in PLOS Pathogens - a really nice collaboration with @alanlparker.bsky.social - led by Kasim Waraich and Rosie Mundy. journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

Identification of a novel fiber shaft structural motif and overexpression of key transcripts elucidated in human adenovirus D 10

Author summary Adenoviruses cause infections with pathologies ranging from cold like respiratory symptoms to gastroenteritis and conjunctivitis. In addition to research on adenovirus pathology, substa...

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Still time to apply for one of three joint virology PhDs @cvrinfo.bsky.social and @pirbrightinst.bsky.social, including one with myself and the fantastic @peacockflu.bsky.social! Informal enquiries welcome by e-mail (including re the primary location of ours, which is negotiable), deadline 8th May

Ed Hutchinson@socialinfluenza.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Are you excited by virology? Would you like to do a PhD? Three fantastic opportunities are available to do joint PhDs between @cvrinfo.bsky.social and @pirbrightinst.bsky.social Details in the thread below - please share! Deadline 8th May 2026, fully funded for UK Home students (1/4)

Vaccines should protect people without costing animals their lives. At Glasgow, our grant funds animal-free tonsil organoids from donated human tissue to test vaccines and study real human immune responses! Learn more: https://ow.ly/O8vp50YIa3K #WorldImmunisationWeek

Delighted to share the (preprint) output of @mhairijan.bsky.social's Oxford visit: SARS-CoV-2 Neutralising Antibody Profiles Reveal Variant Specific Antibody Dynamics and Regional Differences in Infection Histories in Malawi. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

Mhairi McCormack@mhairijan.bsky.social · last yr.

Had a wonderful time in Oxford this week filled with data modelling, presentations, meetings, and beautiful lunch spots! Huge thanks to @jameshay.bsky.social for inviting me down and all the wonderful researchers who have taken the time to speak with me #PhD #BigData @ox.ac.uk

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🚨New pre-print!🚨 Influenza viruses need proteases to become infectious. Here, we identify the proteases needed for influenza D virus entry, and show that proteases in the human airway are more than capable of activating this non-human virus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🚨New pre-print!🚨 Because influenza virions are highly variable in form no single method can show their molecular architecture in detail. Here, we integrate multiple structural and compositional approaches to identify new features of these beautiful virus particles www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Just at the airport after a great @microbiologysociety.org annual conference! Enjoyed sharing my @humaneresearch.bsky.social research with the virology community and catching up with old and new friends. Looking forward to next year already #Microbio26

Great delivery by Sarah Little from @grovearmada.bsky.social team @microbiologysociety.org : Scalable Screening of AI Designed Binders that Prevent Virus Entry

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Interested in viruses and innate immunity? Then join @connorggbamford.bsky.social and myself in the innate immunity symposium session at 2:30 in Meeting Room 1 #Microbio26

Interested in animal-origin free research? Then come along to my poster #231 describing my @humaneresearch.bsky.social work on producing animal-free viral immunology assays to assess measles immunity #Microbio26

Fantastic Translation Prize talk from @alanlparker.bsky.social amazing work going from bench to bedside using oncolytic viruses #Microbio26

Looking forward to #Microbio26 in Belfast this week where we have 6 presentations across a few sessions on both our virus and host work (can you spot us?). Plus I will be co-chairing the virus forum innate immunity session with @leesherry.bsky.social on Tuesday pm!

Out today in @natecoevo.nature.com! 📝 www.nature.com/articles/s41... We compare the mutational tolerance of enteroviruses A & B across their full proteomes, mapping distinct host interaction strategies 🦠 and identifying mutation-resistant regions that could inform antiviral development 💊