Join us on 4th Sept 2024 for Emerging Viruses Oxford symposium ⁦LPMHealthcare⁩ ⁦Virology at Oxford⁩ #EVOX24 . Send in your abstracts for offered talks and posters. More speakers will be announced soon.

The IRE1α-XBP1 arm of the unfolded protein response is a host factor activated in SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Congrats Fernández et al! Pleasure to contribute - this collaboration came about because of the UK-ICN!

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Calling bioscience research students and technicians in The Midlands (England) interested in entrepreneurship.

The BBSRC ICURe ENGAGE programme can support you to unlock the commercial potential of your research.

⏰Opens 29 April: icureprogramme.com/courses/bbsrc-… ICURe

Postdoc positions are applied to on the University of Liverpool website when they come up. With indirect queries typically going to the PI.

Phd positions are typically advertised on findaphd.com.

If adverts are telling you to go elsewhere to apply be cautious!

#SaveTheDate for our ISIDORe user's conference that will be held on 2024, May the 28th (yes!) 🗓️

More info: isidore-project.eu/events/isidore…

Network director, Prof Hiscox (University of Liverpool News) on the local news to emphasis the importance of collaboration in the scientific community. Thanks for funders Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research and Defra UK for funding this opportunity to share knowledge and build new relationships

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So what do we do with this knowledge...? Inform policy of course!

Prof. Peter Karayiannis sharing Cyprus' approach to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic #Preparedness #Lessonslearnt #policy

Thank you Volker Thiel for demonstrating how we can use replicon-based tools to learn more about anti-viral responses #reversegenetics

Network director, Prof. Hiscox, closing this session with an overview of genetic selection and variation in human SARS-CoV-2 using @covidgenomicsuk data #machinelearning #bigdata

Andrea Spiri and Solene Meunier (University of Zurich) sharing their brilliant work on a long term treatment study to evaluate potential side effects of oral therapies #diseasecontrol #coronaviruses

Day 2 of the UK-ICN Feline Coronavirus Workshop

Thanks Christine Tait-Burkard (@EdinburghUni) for giving a taste of the challenges and obstacles involved in developing genome sequencing pipelines for emerging coronaviruses

Our very own Prof. Al Darby, head of CGR Uni of Liverpool, demonstrating sequencing tools and their use for disease surveillance. He even bought his own Oxford Nanopore MinIon sequencer to pass around to participants.

From cats to humans, Dr Christopher Lucas (The University of Edinburgh) giving us a comparison of SARS-CoV-2 pathology in humans to round off our morning session today

Prof. Anja Kipar (Director of Vet Pathology, University of Zurich) sharing her expertise on Feline Coronavirus Pathology. Thanks for making the trip to Cyprus to join us at University Nicosia!

Our network director talking to the local press about the importance of projects like ours for sharing critical information for the development of disease surveillance and diagnostics for control!

Dr Charalambos Attipa (The University of Edinburgh) kicking off with the Cyprus experience of the FCoV23 outbreak

A warm welcome from Prof Hiscox to our network and UK experience of the covid pandemic!

Prof Stavros Malas (the president of Cyprus Insitute and the first dean of Uni of Nicosia Vet School) kicking off our feline CoV workshop! Thanks for the great introduction! #OneHealth Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Defra UK

Huge thank you to Microbiology Society and UK-ICN for funding my travel, registration and accommodation so I could attend this conference.
#Microbio24