Community Reviews are science in real time! Check out this new and recent example of open feedback in action: @cb99-lewis.bsky.social et al.’s preprint just got reviewed by a community-organized group through preLights! 📄 doi.org/10.64898/202... (@dbhella.bsky.social) #Preprints #openRxiv

IgA is necessary and sufficient to prevent norovirus infection in mice www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Check out our recent publication assessing feline coronavirus serology across the UK. This is the first first-author publication of @cvrinfo.bsky.social MRes turned PhD student Hagar Sasvari. The first of many! #Virology

Alternative splicing broadens antiviral diversity at the human OAS2 locus Emma Davies et al @fletcherlab.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Cats: the ultimate pets and scientific heroes. 🐱 Studying feline viruses to identify innovative solutions to prevent human infections. #preprint by @cb99-lewis.bsky.social, @dbhella.bsky.social & team #microbiology #preLight by @orestissavva.bsky.social: prelights.biologists.com/highlights/i...

Delighted to share our article on the functional expansion of OAS2 via alt. splicing. link.springer.com/article/10.1... A tour de force from PhD student Emma Davies and friends.

New preprint alert! Ever wonder if cells can talk to each other? Tunneling nanotubes (TNTs) are tiny bridges between cells used to pass organelles, nucleic acids, proteins & even viruses but we've never seen inside them clearly. Until now! 👇🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.27.728322v1

New online! Concepts of RNA virus evolution for the design of better antiviral countermeasures

Wow - this is just amazing. Hui Guo and colleagues from John Briggs’ lab use cryoEM helical reconstruction to discover how filamentous influenza virion assembly is directed by multiple conformations of M1 - explaining how NA is concentrated at the proximal pole. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

France confines more than 1,700 people to cruise ship over suspected norovirus death

Fantastic to have this out! As ever, I'm immensely grateful to all co-authors for their support, advice, and resource provision. This was a real collaborative effort, and highlights the potential of VP2 as a viable target for calicivirus antivirals- exciting stuff!

The OG of outbreak viruses on cruise ships needed to remind everyone who is boss. 115 infected on the carribean princess cruise ship in an ongoing outbreak. Sounds like my idea of hell on earth. Trapped at sea on a ship full of people with vomiting and diarrhea. abcnews.com/Internationa...

🚨New paper!🚨 Our study showing that H5N1 influenza viruses can remain infectious in unpasteurised milk for, basically, as long as you are likely to encounter that milk has now been published: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Really happy to see this paper out now in PLOS Pathogens - a really nice collaboration with @alanlparker.bsky.social - led by Kasim Waraich and Rosie Mundy. journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

I am happy to share a review I recently wrote on the design of peptide binders. It gives an overview of experimentally validated tools and discusses the challenges of why peptide design is more difficult than the design of classical protein binders. www.chimia.ch/chimia/artic...

Really pleased to have this project out - a nice collaboration between @socialinfluenza.bsky.social and @prmurcia.bsky.social looking at the risk of H5N1 spillover into commonly used cattle breeds 🦠 🐮

🎙️ PODCAST | CVR Meets: Professor Akiko Iwasaki In this ep of Research Goes Viral, Bailey & Charlotte speak with Prof Akiko Iwasaki, 2025 Sir Michael Stoker Award winner, about Long COVID and how the pandemic transformed research overnight. 🎥 youtu.be/Iqbhq6dLLJs 🔈 open.spotify.com/episode/3spW...

Delighted to share our latest preprint describing an integrative model for influenza A virions. We combined proteomics, lipidomics and cryo-ET to build a comprehensive set of models, using subtomogram averaging we show that IAV filaments package cofilactin. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The abstract deadline for the 21st International Microscopy Congress has been extended to 20th March. Pranav Shah and I will be chairing a one-day session on “Imaging pathogen biology from structure to mechanism” and we would love to hear about your work! www.imc21.org.uk

I am excited to share our latest preprint - An evolutionarily divergent herpesvirus with a giant tail. Featuring symmetry breaking and genome annotation from structure using ModelAngelo. doi.org/10.64898/202...

Very excited to share our work, a fish herpesvirus' cryo EM structure. It features a long PVAT tail, with new and host-like proteins discovered using modelAngelo, Dali, and Viro3D, including a host-like macrodomain doi.org/10.64898/202... @dbhella.bsky.social @grovearmada.bsky.social

🚨New Pre-Print🚨 Although H3N2 subclade K has multiple mutations in HA, neutralisation assays with pre-epidemic human sera show only moderate antigenic drift, and vaccines used in the 2024/2025 flu season induced cross-neutralising immunity www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Never a good sign when I have a chance to post this. www.usatoday.com/story/travel...

Join @uofglasgow.bsky.social for a funded 3.5 year PhD programme: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl... Also up for grabs is a project on antiviral PROTACs, supervised by us and the France lab (School of Chemistry) should ubiquitin and viruses appeal! Please get in touch with any questions.

Should you find yourself - for whatever reason - looking for a new set of authoritative, accessible summaries of the risks and benefits of vaccines to share with people, the NHS website is still doing a good job at this www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...

Alcohol-based hand sanitizers do not kill norovirus. Washing hands with soap and water is the way to go. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/norovirus-vomiting-diarrhea-vaccine

🧬 Thrilled to share our latest paper in @natmicrobiol.nature.com 📄 A collaboration to give the Flaviviridae (home to Zika, Dengue & HCV) a much-needed taxonomic re-think. Our at-scale AI structure prediction gave a complementary perspective on viral evolution. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Really cool stuff! Congratulations Dan!

My nightmare: “Almost 100 people came down with norovirus aboard a Royal Caribbean ship amid a 13-day voyage, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported earlier this week… The first reports of illness were made on Sept. 28, with four crew members and 94 guests falling ill”

Well done Emma!! Amazing stuff!

I am delighted to share this preprint describing the structure and transcriptomics analysis of adenovirus D10 - a fantastic collaboration - and a lot of hard work by Kasim and Rosie.

Had a brilliant time at the 9th International Calicivirus Conference in Banff (www.calicivirusconference.com) - phenomenal science in a phenomenal setting! It was great to present my PhD work so far (thanks @dbhella.bsky.social for the pic). Here's to many more!