We look forward to once more host researchers from all over Ireland who share our interest in RNA! See you Friday!!

SAVE THE DATE! The 2025 Influenza Update Meeting will be held ‪@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social on the 15th and 16th December - ‪@nicolerobb.bsky.social‬ is leading the organisation for this year's event. We hope you'll join us there - please repost! www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

Great opportunity to work on influenza virus-host factor interactions in a brand new lab at Imperial (led by a friend and collaborator, Carol Sheppard) www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Finishing virology/biology PhD students, postdocs in need of a job- this is a lab you should join! Am I biased? 100% yes- because I know that the Sheppard lab will be an awesome place to work and you'll do great science. Spread the word!

Checkout our review article at PLOS. Happy to see the thoughts of Stefano and myself on influenza virus RNA trafficking published in PLOS Pathogens a few days ago. A topic we are both greatly interested in. dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Closing on soon - you have until the 14th to apply for our interdisciplinary PhD studentship - develop new cell-based infection models & AI analysis to study infections and discover antimicrobials. Link below.

#NSV2025 Two weeks left to register! The abstract submission/registration system on the website will CLOSE Friday, April 11, 2025. Visit www.negativestrandvirus.org/home

Age-dependent expression and antiviral activity of interferon epsilon in respiratory epithelium https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.08.647778v1

The 2-part report found on virological.org is a very interesting read. Astonishing what can be discerned from the #H5N1 #birdflu sequence data. (Or astonishing to me, a non-scientist.)

Identifying cellular RNA-binding proteins during infection uncovers a role for MKRN2 in influenza mRNA trafficking https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.30.564690v1