🎙️ 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...

Great 1st day at the @ukvbd.bsky.social conferenced in Liverpool, with several #MosquitoScotland team members presenting findings from their work @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @cvrinfo.bsky.social @meshachlee.bsky.social Georgia Kirby Ryan Carmichael Lucy Devlin Aidan Desjardins Dom Brass Ross Cuthbert

🐓 The first European case of H9N2 Avian Flu has recently been reported in Italy. Prof Ed Hutchinson (@socialinfluenza.bsky.social) has written an informative article explaining what this development means and whether it’s something we should be concerned about. theconversation.com/first-europe...

Protein Language Models (PLMs) could transform outbreak response New research from @kieranlamb.bsky.social & colleagues show that PLMs can identify mutation hotspots and key features of viral proteins - even from a single sequence. www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

Our cells defend our bodies from the early stages of viral infection by synthesising a ‘web’ to trap viral genomes. @eilidhrivers.bsky.social & Daniel Squair (MRC PPU) identified ZNFX1, a protein that is synthesised when a cell is alerted to the presence of a virus. www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

Only two weeks are left for registering for Annual Conference 2026 in Belfast. Register now to secure your spot: https://microb.io/AC26Register #Microbio26

We are delighted to announce that our new website is now live! Check it out: www.cvr.ac.uk

📢 Fellowship Sponsorship at the CVR 📆 Deadline: Tues 21 April 26 We have an open sponsorship process and are committed to supporting a diverse, inclusive & well-supported community. Full support with application writing, organising peer reviews and interview prep. gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

Not all bat viruses spread the same way 🦇 A new study from @averyholmes.bsky.social & colleagues looked at six viruses in vampire bats in Peru & found contrasting patterns of circulation. Some reflect bat movement, others were influenced by human activity. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Happy International Women’s Day! We are proud of the women of #TeamUofG, past and present. Here are just a few who have shaped our community over our 575-year history. Learn more: Gla.ac.uk/explore/575

@cvrinfo.bsky.social Clinical Viral Epidemiology Group & Usher Institute PhD students, @hbsci.bsky.social & Milly Young presenting their work at #rti2026! 🫁🦠

We’re hosting the @cvrinfo.bsky.social coffee morning 🍰🍩, celebrating the Lunar New Year 🧧🐎 #YearOfTheHorse

NEW | Complexities of wound healing at a cellular level New research from Harry Scott & colleagues found that reducing Dlg1 protein levels lowers Cx43 levels - but surprisingly slows wound closure. Dlg1 seems vital for cell division, not just Cx43 regulation. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📢 EVENT | Coming to Singapore: #PandemicSciences2026 1–3 July @psioxford.bsky.social and PREPARE will host the International Pandemic Sciences Conference to explore how to build pandemic resilience. Bursaries for LMIC delegates. Register and submit an abstract ➡️ cvent.me/2mMBwn

Some Glasgowversaries today. Our omnicompetent lab manager Sarah Cole started working at what is now @cvrinfo.bsky.social 20 years ago, and our lab group started up almost exactly 10 years later. Huge thanks to Sarah - and to the CVR and everyone who makes it such a great place to study viruses 🦠🥳🦠

A study funded through a partnership with CSL Seqirus has been published in Scientific Reports. The research maps #BirdFlu risk across Europe using environmental AND wild bird data. Read more: www.thepandemicinstitute.org/news/study-u... @liambrierley.bsky.social #AvianInfluenza #H5N1

🦅 What’s driving the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) across Europe? Using machine learning and wild bird ecology, a new study from @L_Brierley & colleagues reveals a shift towards year-round risk in cold, low-lying regions of NW Europe. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🎤 TONIGHT | Join us for tonight's Bright Club event! 📍The Stand Comedy Club, Glasgow 📆 Mon 2 Feb 20:00 Laugh and learn as researchers from Scotland’s universities, including the CVR, take to the stage for your enlightenment, engagement & entertainment! www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...

🚨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...

We’re excited to announce our 9th Introduction to Viral #Bioinformatics course, starting 15 June 2026! 🧬 @cvrinfo.bsky.social Course information👉 tinyurl.com/yc8285zd

Preprint measuring immune response to the A/H3N2 K influenza virus using human sera from May 2025. Some immune escape but vaccine was protective. Not really a super-flu. @cvrinfo.bsky.social @prmurcia.bsky.social www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

NEW | Cysteines tell you about protein activity & druggability, but lysates lose the biology. Researcher team lead by @rosfrankinst.bsky.social developed nickel chemistry cells can tolerate, enabling deep cysteine mapping in living cells and host–pathogen systems. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🦟 New project | Mosquitoes, their viruses and associated disease risk in NI MosquitoNI will be co-led by a multi-institutional team including @UofGlasgow's CVR (@emipondeville), @QUBelfast & @UK_CEH. www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

📢 Save the date! One Health Summer School 2026 Attend the One Health Approaches to Study Climate-Sensitive Infectious Diseases Summer School, taking place 17–28 August 2026 in Rotterdam (ErasmusMC) and Heidelberg (Heidelberg University). More info: onehealthsummerschool.eu

MMRV: what families need to know about the UK’s new chickenpox vaccine Prof Ed Hutchinson has written an insightful article for The Conversation which explores the new childhood vaccination which also protects against VZV, the cause of chickenpox and shingles. theconversation.com/mmrv-what-fa...

🎉 Congratulations to Dr Daniel Weir for recently passing his Viva! Daniels research explored how influenza A virus infection moves directly between cells, independently of virus particles, focusing on how infection induces the formation of tunnelling nanotube-like structures.

Congratulations to @cvrinfo.bsky.social Clinical Viral Epidemiology Group @emcat1.bsky.social student @elenvink.bsky.social who graduated from her PhD in Virology yesterday!! 🎓🎉🍾🙌

If you live in the northern hemisphere, there's still time to get vaccinated for this year's troubling flu season. Cat Wilson, a Clinical Research Fellow @cvrinfo.bsky.social explains a bit more about the flu vaccine here: theconversation.com/what-does-it...

👏 Well done to Patawee Asamaphan for winning the prize for best oral presentation at the recent Glasgow Paediatric Research Open Day.

BBC News - Flu: Children hit hardest as cases in Northern Ireland surge - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Feeling festive? Why not deck the halls with @cvrinfo.bsky.social's papercraft #VirusSnowflakes and celebrate the science of viruses and the fight against viral diseases. Download for free: cvr-engagement.co.uk/virus-snowfl... #scicomm #sciart #decorations

🚨New Paper!🚨 Some like it hot: Matt Turnbull and @samjwilsonphd.bsky.social collaborated with groups from @cvrinfo.bsky.social, @cam.ac.uk and beyond to show that, while our fevers are hot enough to control human flu, they don't protect against avian influenzas adaptd to the hotter bodies of birds

Are you fascinated by viruses? Would you like to design your own original research project in the UK's largest virology centre? Why not come and do a PhD @cvrinfo.bsky.social - application deadline 6th Jan 2026 (1/1): www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

H5N1 in bats - what should we think about this? @itingtu.bsky.social explains her recent preprint (a collaboration with multiple @cvrinfo.bsky.social groups) in a really nice interview with @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

🆕 | Professor @danielstreicker.bsky.social and his team at @cvrinfo.bsky.social were recently featured across BBC television, radio, & online coverage, showcasing their work on vampire bat-transmitted rabies in Peru. 🔗 More: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/infe... 📰 BBC: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🧵1/2

My 1st first-author paper is out as a preprint! Excited to share the fascinating story of marine-feeding vampire bats 🌊🦇 We found that marine-diet bats were exposed to #H5#AvianFlu 🦠 from marine wildlife and could potentially spread it to livestock via blood feed🩸 doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.09.686930

🚨New paper from @cvrinfo.bsky.social Clinical Viral Epi Group PhD student @mhairijan.bsky.social on the evolving neutralising antibody responses to #SARSCoV2 in an urban & rural cohort in #Malawi, showing ⬆️ complexity of immune landscape across 3 waves. 🦠🩸🇲🇼📈 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Scientists @uofglasgow.bsky.social have harnessed a powerful supercomputer, normally used to study the universe, to develop a new machine learning model which can help translate the language of proteins @cvrinfo.bsky.social @uofgcancersciences.bsky.social @uofgcompsci.bsky.social ➡️ gla.ac/3WpA43G

Congratulations to Dr Cal Bentley-Abbot, who passed his PhD viva yesterday @cvrinfo.bsky.social Cal is a brilliant microscopist and has been an outstanding colleague. Next step: a microscopy facility management job and a round-the-world cycle trip #PhDone

Huge congratulations to Emma Davis, the winner of 2025's Early Career Microbiologist of the Year prize! We agree with Emma that all of the finalists' talks were brilliant and a massive well done to everyone involved!

🚨 New Web Resource Alert! 🚨 We're delighted to share Viro3D a database of >85000 viral protein structure predictions from >4400 human & animal viruses. 🔗 viro3d.cvr.gla.ac.uk 📄 www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.... @molsystbiol.org @cvrinfo.bsky.social @uofgmvls.bsky.social #Virology #AlphaFold 🧪 🦠

Our ELP winner @grovearmada.bsky.social and his team have launched Viro3D, an AI-powered virus protein database, which will help scientists understand and combat emerging viral threats more efficiently. Read more here: https://bit.ly/3IIfND1 @cvrinfo.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social

🎉 Fletcher lab PhD student Emma Davies reflecting on her prize winning talk - we’re super proud of you Emma - many congrats! 🎉 @cvrinfo.bsky.social @uofgsii.bsky.social @uofgmvls.bsky.social

Last year we organised an interdisciplinary workshop on 'Preparing for Pandemics' with @cvrinfo.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social and others. A white paper summarising our discussions on Countering Disinformation and Distrust is now available (1/2): committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide...

📢 VACANCY | Research Assistant/Associate - Data Analysis Support @drtoniho.bsky.social & @louisapollock.bsky.social's Pfizer-funded research project focused on effectiveness of maternal #RSV vaccination in infants in Scotland. More: bit.ly/CVR-WorkWithUs Apply: gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/ Ref 180274

📣Come work with us! Looking for a Research Assistant/Associate in Data Analysis, for a Pfizer-funded research project focused on effectiveness of maternal #RSV vaccination in infants in Scotland. More: bit.ly/3Va7yCd Enq to: @louisapollock.bsky.social Closing: 17 Sept 25 @cvrinfo.bsky.social

📢 VACANCY | Genomics Research Assistant Play a leading role in a UKRI-funded collaboration (MRC-UVRI) with a focus on #CCHF virus. More: bit.ly/CVR-WorkWithUs Ref 180092 Apply: gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/

💉 New Research to Track How Well RSV Vaccines Protect Scottish Babies Congratulations to @drtoniho.bsky.social & @louisapollock.bsky.social who have received funding from Pfizer to track the real-world effectiveness of RSV vaccines given to pregnant women across Scotland. cvr.ac.uk/engage/news/...

📃NEW | Common Liver Treatment Shows Potential to Reduce Hospital SARS-CoV-2 Cases @chrisillingworth.bsky.social & colleagues used computer simulations to show that UDCA could reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission in hospitals by 17%. cvr.ac.uk/engage/news/... Research: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

📢 VACANCY | Computational Biologist/Bioinformatician 🦠 Join our brilliant team and contribute to the analysis of antiviral host-mechanisms and comparative virology datasets. 📆 Deadline: 25 August Info: bit.ly/CVR-WorkWithUs Ref 178592 Apply: gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/