Huge congratulations to our PHD student Emma Touizer, a People's Choice winner at the Dean's Research Prize event for her Postgraduate Research Presentation on The Impact of B Cell Phenotypes in HIV Infection on Antibody Responses👑ucl.ac.uk/medical-scienc…

📢 Next seminar is this Thursday 2nd May!

We'll be joined by PhD student Meryl Attrill from Pesenacker Lab IIT who will be presenting their Biorxiv pre-print on the #immune landscape of the inflamed joint using #spectral flow cytometry - 37 coulours!

🕐4pm BST, on Teams

'MERS-CoV circulation and ongoing zoonotic transmission a reminder of its persistent threat to global health security...'
The Lancet comment, Prof Ali Zumla, Stanley Perlman University of Iowa et al: Anticipating a MERS-like coronavirus as a potential pandemic threat
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And we're ready to go again...

Delighted to announce the 2nd UCL Advances and Innovations in Clinical Infectious Diseases symposium

Focus on research shaping Infectious Diseases practice in next few years

4th June 2024. In person & online. Register 👇
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Anticipating a MERS-like coronavirus as a potential pandemic threat - latest from my colleague Prof Alimuddin Zumla. We agree and have been developing a low cost MERS vaccine and universal in anticipation about a problem emerging on the Arabian Peninsula thelancet.com/journals/lance…

🎬 Media training for UCL researchers - a day of in-depth media interview training on either 6 June or 25 June, 2024. Apply by Monday 22 April:
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Congratulations to all European Research Council (ERC) award recipients! 👏Frontier research, including faculty members Charles Swanton and Bonfanti Research Group ⤵️
UCL Division of Infection & Immunity IIT UCL Cancer Institute

Congratulations to our PhD students Stephanie Kucykowicz and Daniel Brown Romero who represented the lab today in the IIT UCL Division of Infection & Immunity PhD colloquium

#proudPI #smashingscience

It's the showdown to end all showdowns - @UCL take on @ImperialCollege for the final of #UniversityChallenge ! Which London heavyweight will take the title? 🏙️💪

Join us and Amol Rajan next Monday at 8.30pm on BBC Two and @bbciplayer 📺

FESR 2024: Registration Is Now Open!

Calling all doctoral researchers and early-career academic and research staff. You are invited to FESR 2024 between the 7th May - 10th May 2024.

Full programme and register for festival events: tinyurl.com/FESR2024
#FESR24 #UCLFESR24

📢Calling all doctoral researchers & early-career academic & research staff.

The Festival of Early Stage Researchers is returning 7-10 May!

Be part of the Community Celebration.

Submit your expression of interest by 18 March.

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Register for the launch event for the Digital Health Hub for #AntimicrobialResistance ( #AMR ) taking place Friday 22nd March🗓️Enjoy guest lectures, panels, posters and more! Programme and further details for this free event: amrhublaunch.eventbrite.co.uk

Massive congratulations to Leo Swadling for his Wellcome Career Development Award...a whole EIGHT years of funding to expand his fantastic research group IIT 🤩👏🍾🥂🍾

Join us for UCL Infection and Immunity external seminar series with Prof Lance Turtle Inst of Infection Veterinary & Ecological Sciences and Prof Professor John Tregoning Imperial Department of Infectious Disease
📅 26 February 2024, 1:00 pm–5:00 pm
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AHRI & UCL Division of Infection & Immunity have an incredible opportunity for up to 3⃣ candidates to register for a #PhD at UCL while undertaking their research project at AHRI. This is open to applicants who live permanently in 🇿🇦

Closing date is 12 April.

Details ➡️ ahri.org/applications-a…

📢 UCL Media Relations Workshop, Tues 13 February 3-4pm. Open to academics and early career researchers in the Faculty of Medical Sciences. Presenters: Dr Matt Midgley (UCL Media Relations Manager) and Prof Prof Jennifer L. Rohn DoM_UCL
Book your place: buff.ly/42BFJFP

Our most recent work on how SARS-CoV-2 keeps on getting around our innate immune defenses is now in Nature Microbiology ⬇️Towerslab UCL Division of Infection & Immunity Work led by AK Reuschl is taking a closer look at Omicron subvariants during epithelial infection. (1/5)

New year 2⃣0⃣2⃣4⃣ ⚡️ new job! Our current vacancies:

✅ Informatics intern (req: hons in health data science or bioinformatics)
✅ Bioinformatics & metagenomics postdoc (req: PhD bioinformatics or related)
✅ Research associate (req: PhD & pub record)

➡️ ahri.mcidirecthire.com/default/Extern…

🎉 Reflecting on a year of innovation, growth, and achievement at UCL.🌍 From groundbreaking discoveries to a royal visit and being named University of the Year by The Times and The Sunday Times. Check out 2023's highlights 👇
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Dr Reeves of IIT and UCL Division of Infection & Immunity studies #CMV , a herpes virus affecting billions since the 1970s. His work provides a valuable step forwards for CMV management, #vaccine research, and #virology as a whole.

DOI: bit.ly/3NdGbnr

Listen: buzzsprout.com/582022/1405642…