🎤 | New MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research UofG Sii Research Fellow Dr Liam Brierley (@L_Brierley) recently put his scientific skills to the test - by attempting to unravel the Eurovision Song Contest Song Contest for @BBCBitesize.

📊 Read his full fascinating statistical analysis here: bbc.co.uk/bitesize/artic…

Excited to add this wee thesis to my book shelf! 🥹

🧫 | The University of Glasgow Antimicrobial & Antimicrobial Resistance Society is excited to announce their upcoming ECR’s AMR Network Event.

A collaboration with The University of Edinburgh, final year PhD students/postdocs working in antimicrobial resistance are invited.

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Are you a University of Glasgow staff or student interested in finding out more about Explorathon? Join our 30-minute online information session at 11am tomorrow: uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Egg-citing news - we're calling on the #TeamUofG community to help name our University of Glasgow Peregrine Falcons! 🐣

We've hatched a plan to find names for our returning mating pair and can't wait to see your ideas. 🪺

Submit your name suggestions here➡️ bit.ly/4bjOpEg

Don't miss this wonderful opportunity to learn some bioinformatics!

A 2-loop Dr. Claire Cisowski UofG PhysAstro Join us for #ResearchIntroductions #Zoomposium on 8 May with Claire D. Bourke UofG Sii presenting on #Immunobiology of human #malnutrition nutritional status &immune cell function.Collaborations sought developing #diagnostictests #biostatistics #AI [email protected] 2/3

🆕 | Applications are open for our annual Glasgow Bioinformatics Summer School!

Interested in learning bioinformatics or don’t know where to start?

Sign up to our comprehensive coding bootcamp, beginning on Monday 19 August 2024.

⏳ Monday 1 July

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All systems go for day 1 of the Trypanosomiasis Research in Malawi symposium, on the shores of beautiful Lake Malawi! UofG_SBOHVM UofG_Impact MVLS Engagement Team Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme Annette Macleod Lab #aatmalawi

A warm welcome to Liam Brierley who joins us today! Liam is an MRC Career Development Fellow and will be using new computational methods to investigate how and why viruses transmit between species.

1/8 New @CVRinfo paper out in Nature Communications. We show that the physical process of airborne transmission leads to a pattern of tight transmission bottlenecks, with a small number of viruses founding most cases of infection. rdcu.be/dFRbQ

Last month we attended the an iVGB Away Day SCENE . After intense strategic discussions we also enjoyed team bonding walk up Conic Hill ⛰️

UofG Sii London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Clare Harding Centre For Parasitology Sheiner lab Andy Waters British Society for Parasitology UofG MVLS Maizels Lab McCulloch Lab Group Richard McCulloch Kathryn Crouch Thank you for making these available online, this is a fascinating talk!

🎥 | WATCH | A recording of the Dr Christiaan van Ooij (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) GRiP-ing seminar, 'The great metamorphosis: how the malaria parasite changes shape to adapt to life inside the host', can now be viewed on our UofG Sii YouTube channel for a limited time.

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🎙️ PODCAST | Could the #H5N1 outbreak jump from cattle into humans?

Hutchinson Lab chats to Ian Sample about how H5N1 jumped from birds to cows, how virologists are sequencing the virus to monitor it and how prepared the UK are for a similar outbreak.

theguardian.com/science/audio/…

Beautiful day for our Biodiversity Cardross beach survey. It’s our fourth year of public engagement for this project. Very lucky to be part of this fantastic team! ⁦UofG MVLS⁩ ⁦UofG Sii⁩ ⁦Anna McGregor⁩ ⁦Duncan Smallman 🇺🇦💛⁩ ⁦NatureScot⁩

Latest from the lab from excellent PhD student Lauren Adams using spatial biology approaches to map the in vivo effects of intestinal inflammation at intestinal and systemic sites.
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Milling Lab Orhan Rasid Richard Burchmore AstraZenecaUK UofG Sii UofG MVLS

📢 DEADLINE EXTENSION #GlasgowVirologyWorksop

Deadline for abstract submission and registration are now next week!

📆 Wednesday 1st May 2024

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Send a PDF with your name, email, affiliation and a 200-word abstract to [email protected].

🎓 | Congratulations, Dr Walsh! 🍾

✨ The role of #DNAsensing in alum #adjuvant activity ✨

Delve into this review from UofG Sii researchers to gain a clearer understanding of how this adjuvant works, how it can inform #VaccineDesign & outstanding questions this #WorldImmunizationWeek ➡️bit.ly/3Ywhk1E