🚨Job Alert🚨 Looking for a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to join our multidisciplinary team of scientists. The postdoc will collaborate with world-class structural biologist Peijun Zhang to understand everything about HIV capsids and how they work via host interactions. Spread the word!

Thanks @stratechscientific.bsky.social for expanding my @giantmicrobes.bsky.social collection! Loving my new ssRNA friend :)

Virtual Virology is back - our first ever phage session. Do join us...

H5N1 made it’s jump into sheep in the UK 🐑 #zoonosis www.gov.uk/government/n...

Influenza of avian origin confirmed in a sheep in Yorkshire

Influenza of avian origin (H5N1) has been confirmed in a single sheep in Yorkshire.

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Got promoted to @richardsloanlab.bsky.social alumni last week 🎉🍾 Thank you Toshana and Paul for joining the people-who’s-read-my-thesis club, and for good discussions at the viva! #phdone

Time to make myself useful with the new title and new project!

Jolly Lab@jollylab.bsky.social · 2y ago

Congratulations to Dr @nellymak.bsky.social who returned to us victoriously from her PhD viva in Edinburgh! Fantastic job! We're very excited that she is starting her postdoc journey with us! 🥳

My first first-author paper is out! If you are curious about how alternative splicing fine-tunes the antiviral specificity of IFITMs in horseshoe bats, make this the last paper you will read in 2024⬇️

Sloan Lab@richardsloanlab.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our lab's latest paper published in PLoS Pathogens! Looking at functional diversity of antiviral IFITMs in horseshoe bats doi.org/10.1371/jour... Led by PhD student @nellymak.bsky.social in collaboration with @batresearch.bsky.social @uoe-eid.bsky.social @edinuni-irr.bsky.social #Immunosky #Virosky

I joined @jollylab.bsky.social at UCL as a postdoc this week! Still getting used to being in central London but I won’t complain about having pubs/restaurants only a few minutes away.

Successfully migrated all my previous tweets to this account using github.com/marcomaroni-... - woohoo! Seem to have lost the original posting dates for now but at least you can find out more about me by scrolling down👇🏻

GitHub - marcomaroni-github/twitter-to-bluesky: Import all tweets exported from X/Twitter to a Bluesky account.

Import all tweets exported from X/Twitter to a Bluesky account. - marcomaroni-github/twitter-to-bluesky

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Guaranteed excellent supervisors - apply! https://twitter.com/RichardSloanLab/status/1857262571138453756

Thank you Dr. Marjolein Kikkert for inviting me to present at their virology lab meeting in-person at @UniLeiden today! Great way to wrap up my Edinburgh-Leiden jointly funded PhD. 📷: “The One Who Waits” in the LUMC hospital lobby.

Lunchtime break from thesis writing. My toggl tracker says I’ve already spent 150 hours on it 😳 ✨Featuring very cute Lumie socks from @promega - thanks @MichaelaNoskov5 @promegauk !

Thanks to everyone who came to my talk and for all the questions/suggestions!! Here’s a photo of me and THE IFITM experts @YountLabOSU @compton_lab #ASV2024

Catch my talk at *2:45pm Union station C today*. I’ll be talking about our preprint but ALSO some new computational stuff on diversification strategies of immune genes🤓 #ASV2024

Here we goooo #ASV2024 Great start with the satellite symposiums this morning. Loved @hannahkfrank’s talk on whether bats are special - they are (I knew it!) 🤩

Me & @oceanchau left Edinburgh >24h ago to travel to #ASV2024. After a missed connection, 3 flight cancellations, 10h at the airport and 2h running around for a hotel room…we are still in NYC without our bags. I hope we make it there for our talks😭 @AmerSocVirol

The #3MT competition has been an incredibly fun and rewarding journey! Thank you to my very supportive friends and family, and congratulations to all who competed today🫶🏻 I guess I’ll go work on my actual thesis now…🙈 #UOE3MT24 @UoE_IAD @EdinburghUni

I’ll be taking part in the Edinburgh 3MT finals tomorrow along with 8 other brilliant finalists from @cmvm_research @EdinUniCAHSSres @ColSciEng . Come join us - good content guaranteed 😉 https://twitter.com/UoE_IAD/status/1796120304630026447

A bit late but yesterday’s #GlasgowVirologyWorkshop was again a great meeting with lovely people. Best parts were Sole from @RichardSloanLab winning the best talk, the ceilidh and finally meeting @lucygthorne :)

My little cousin (10yo) has been obsessed with drawing ducks recently, and she drew me this yesterday🐥🥼

Heard from many brilliant PhD students in the college heat of the Three Minute Thesis competition @3MT_official today. See you at the Edinburgh university finals! 😉 @UoE_IAD @cmvm_research

Another fantastic @MicrobioSoc conference done🎉 Feels very different this year with the conference centre just a bus ride away from my flat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Thanks for all the good chats and especially those who visited my poster! #Microbio24

I’ll be at *poster B416* today to tell you all about bat IFITMs (as always) AND a recent project on functional diversification of immune genes by duplication & splicing! 🦇🧬✂️ #Microbio24

I applied for a US visa (with my Hong Kong passport) to attend the @AmerSocVirol conference, but it was denied for further processing despite my pile of supporting documents at the interview… Has anyone experienced something similar? I’m just trying to go to a conference🥲

Celebrating the launch of @EdinUni_IRR at the #IRRlaunch symposium. Good to see the breadth of research in the new building! 🚚📦<2 weeks till we move

Congratulations Pujitha!! So proud of you and very excited for your new chapter, you’ll be missed! https://twitter.com/RajaPujitha/status/1654628095326814210

Another fab @MicrobioSoc conference, but as a speaker this time - thanks to all organisers! So happy to walk away with fruitful science chats and new friends. #microbio23

Talk at #microsoc23 - done! @SoleLancerin from our lab @RichardSloanLab is presenting her poster on how extracellular polysaccharides from cyanobacteria is antiviral - now at P796 !!!

Day 2 at #microbio23! Hear @compton_lab talk about how primate IFITMs *enhance* SARS-CoV-2 today (3pm in Hall 8A).🐒 And I’ll talk about bat IFITMs tomorrow morning.

New review from @jtaylor_tweets @RichardSloanLab on the pleiotropic effects of IFITMs. Have a read to find out what IFITMs do apart from their day job in restricting viruses. https://twitter.com/RichardSloanLab/status/1595753381552848896