Dr of insecty things, working Mum trying to navigate the work life balance. Could use a spellcheck. All views my own
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Excited that our Wolbachia-based strategy to block dengue has been shortlisted for the Prix Galien UK Award! 🦟🧬 Proud to be part of this work in Sinkins’ group at @CVRinfo—already showing real impact with major dengue reductions in Malaysia.
gla.ac.uk/news/headline_1185…
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📣Come work with us!
We are looking for a Research Assistant/Associate in Data Analysis, for @pfizer-funded research project focused on effectiveness of maternal #RSV vaccination in infants in Scotland.
More: bit.ly/3Va7yCd
Enq to: @louisa_pollock1
Closing: 17 Sept 25
Very happy to share this news. It means a lot after a hard few years with mat leave, COVID and everything else life throws at you. Finally feel like I have my mojo back!
Congratulations to Steph Rainey who has been promoted to Research Fellow!
Steph is part of the Sinkins Group: cvr.ac.uk/aboutus/people/res…
@stephmrainey
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🎉 Massive congratulations to the Sinkins' Group for being shortlisted for a #PrixGalien UK Award for their groundbreaking Wolbachia-based #dengue virus control strategy! 👏
gla.ac.uk/research/az/cvr/en…
@GalienFdn @UofGMVLS @UofGSii
Excited that our Wolbachia-based strategy to block dengue has been shortlisted for the Prix Galien UK Award! 🦟🧬 Proud to be part of this work in Sinkins’ group at @CVRinfo—already showing real impact with major dengue reductions in Malaysia.
gla.ac.uk/news/headline_1185…
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We are delighted to announce that Professor Emma Thomson @emcat1 has been appointed as the new Director of the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research @CVRinfo! 🔬🦠
@UKRI_News @The_MRC
Read more➡️ gla.ac/455EjH0
My youngest is a magnet for ticks so helping him understand what to look for is really important. As for the oldest, never had a tick, but he did lend his beautiful voice to this amazing animation 🥰. Such an amazing example of engagement done right
We are delighted to launch our new tick awareness animation aimed at younger children (aged 5-11)
The animation aims to enable younger children to be their own advocates and stay safe whilst enjoying the outdoors!
youtu.be/C3bH8EuxyT0?feature…
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📢 Our team is seeking an experienced and motivated researcher to join an MRC funded project on mitochondrial biology in Plasmodium shared between Glasgow and Cambridge.
Go hear:
gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/
Search our vacancies -> Search by Vacancy Reference
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Come join us!
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Happy to share that my new paper is out in @MDPIOpenAccess
mdpi.com/1999-4915/16/8/1336
In this paper we demonstrate that negative sense RNA virus Bunyamwera has a negative impact on Wolbachia density in Ae. aegypti mosquitoes. Thanks to everyone involved, especially @stephmrainey!
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I can’t recommend this enough. Apply for this PhD program for working with @serdelor in Trieste, Italy. You won’t regret it! ⬇️
🧑🎓PhD POSITION OPEN at @AreaSciencePark, within the Molecular Medicine program. A project focused on the role of SARS-CoV-2 proteins in causing DNA damage and inflamation. A collaboration with @alemarcelab.
Contact me for more info
📅 13 June
Please RT
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This is the end of the world as we know it, if this is reproducible! The new era of functional modeling has begun. I took a transcription factor with an unknown structure and folded it with its recognition sequence embedded in longer DNA. AlphaFold3 accurately positioned the transcription factor.
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Only last month we celebrated inauguration of Dr @GhassanAbuSitt1 as @UofGlasgow Rector. Now he's being prevented from entering other European countries to speak on situation in Palestine. @David_Cameron you must speak out on our citizens & #TeamUofG being treated this way.
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Mosquitoes are coming… Good write up in Guardian today on new analysis that suggests >4 billion to be at risk of mosquito borne infections in coming decades. theguardian.com/environment/…
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Really excited to share my first first-author virology paper and it’s a big one! Check out our preprint biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… where we present a key evolutionary process that allows the transmission of vector-borne bunyaviruses between arthropod and vertebrate hosts.
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NEW | PhD Studentship with @CVRinfo (@GroveLab) & @Pirbright_Inst (@MaringerLab)
Using machine learning to identify the molecular determinants of vector-born transmission in viruses.
📆 Start date: Oct 24
⏰ Duration: 3.5 yrs
📢 Closing date: 2 Apr 24
gla.ac.uk/media/Media_105665…
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📢Attentions aspiring Research Leaders in Africa - the next round of @The_MRC #African Research Leaders Award is now open; with a submission deadline of April 24th. Up to £750,000 over 5 years to establish a research programme at an African Institution
ukri.org/opportunity/african…
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🦟 NEW PAPER ALERT! In our most recent work rdcu.be/dxdKZ, we zoomed in on the mosquito midgut epithelium, and found a hub of activity in cellular dynamics! 🔄Here are some of our insights:
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The Flaviviridae UK meeting has a new Twitter account! Follow us for updates on registration and our next conference (17-20 May 2024). Join us this year for the excellent science, supportive community and beautiful scenery. @GroveLab @MaringerLab
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Come join us in Glasgow! These new posts will help us improve our service to users and make sure we are really wringing the most out of our instrumentation. I think there is still ground to cover with our CRYO ARM/Apollo combination and it'll be fun!
Thanks to significant investment from the university, we are recruiting for 4 support scientists to work in different areas of the facility. Details of each post are at gla.ac.uk/research/az/cvr/fa…. Closing date for all posts: 6th Nov, 23:45 UK time.
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Our paper with JCS cover out now! - In Drosophila age-related decreased kidney function, due to loss of epithelial barrier integrity and failure of fluid homeostasis, phenocopied by cell-specific knockdown of the essential junctional protein Snakeskin.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/…
