Favorite volunteering gig: Big Biology Day in October! 💚 Huge thanks to our next-generation assistants — the teens who made it all run so smoothly! And to @valerialulla.bsky.social, who inspires (and leads!) our station every year 🙌

Our lab is recruiting a PhD student to explore how RNA viruses hijack ribosomes and reprogram host translation. A great opportunity for anyone passionate about RNA biology and virology!

These findings are similar to recent work on the EMCV Type 2 IRES — see e.g. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...; www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... — and suggest that common structural motifs and mechanisms may exist within highly divergent picornavirus IRES sequences

The preprint from this great collaboration just went live!

Wonderful to be part of this collaboration — great teams and great science!

Celebrating with the amazing @campathology.bsky.social team at #Microbio25! Fantastic talks, posters, and great company! 👏 @microbiologysociety.org

A nighttime shot of a grand hall filled with posters at #Microbio25. Thanks to everyone who came to the discussion about functional RNA elements in viral genomes after finding my poster among this abundance. @microbiologysociety.org

Excited to attend the annual conference in Liverpool! Great talks, many old and new faces, lovely city! #Microbio25 @microbiologysociety.org