While Ed can’t make #Nido2026, the lab is well-represented by Max Erdmann, and @rebee.bsky.social ! They will be sharing some of the labs findings on coronavirus replication! Catch Max’s talk tomorrow (Wed) at 3:25, and Rebee’s poster C-0036

Funded PhD opportunity! (UK students only due to funder restrictions). Investigating cellular heterogeneity in tendon homeostasis and ageing using single-cell proteomics. Deadline 31st July. Project is a collaboration between the Peffers, Emmott and Thorpe labs on equine tendons. Start Oct 2026.

In other lab news, Ed was promoted to Professor of Virology & Proteomics. Huge thanks to the team for all their work and support! And to the various mentors and supporters who have helped along the way. We have lots more exciting science coming in the near future!

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships call opening soon. If you are a strong candidate and interested in submitting a fellowship with us, we have opportunities in several areas of virology/proteomics. See emmottlab.org Call details/eligibility: marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/funding/msca...

New preprint! Current T7-based MNV reverse genetics can be performed by co-transfecting plasmids encoding T7 RNA polymerase and vaccinia capping enzymes. We see a further 100-1000-fold boost in titres by incorporating CD300lf-expressing BSR-T7 cells into this system. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Funded PhD studentship (UK students only) available on clinical proteomics, application deadline 22nd March for Oct 2026 start! This project seeks to understand treatment responses to exacerbations experienced by people with CF using proteomics. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Congrats to Dr @stephenholmes.bsky.social on passing his PhD viva today! Thanks to examiners Al Darby and @mtrost.bsky.social!

For those who missed the British science festival in September, the recordings and mini documentary for antiviral roller skating are now out!

Another new preprint! This time looking at flavivirus NS5 interactions with our collaborator Armando Arias - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New preprint from the lab, and joint first authors @biomarkella.bsky.social and @stephenholmes.bsky.social! Single-cell phenotypic analysis and multiplet detection through incorporation of microscopy data into cellenONE-based single-cell proteomic data analysis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New preprint: Viral protease-mediated polyprotein processing in human astroviruses Great collaboration with Lulla lab. And the first of @leandroxneves.bsky.social proteolysis stories. More coming soon! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New preprint: IFIT3 controls IFIT1 accumulation and specificity preventing self mRNA targeting during the innate immune response. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Led by Renata Fleith from the Sweeney lab.

Funded PhD opportunity through the DiMeN DTP: studying HEV proteolysis. You’ll be primarily based in the Herod lab at Leeds, and work with us on the use of MS-based proteomics to study proteolysis! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

We are still buzzing from our show! Here’s some snaps of what you missed… in case you were wondering…. Huge thank you to the whole production team and the people who made this happen! @microbiologysociety.org @britsciassoc.bsky.social @emmottlab.bsky.social @livuninews.bsky.social #BSF25

The lab is being represented at the IX International Calicivirus Conference in Banff by @tartanvirus.bsky.social! Catch Frazer to talk protease substrates and proteomics.

Led by @idb-virology.bsky.social, the lab is contributing to #BSF25 with a performance of antiviral roller skating! Working with Liverpool roller birds, and supported by the BSF and @microbiologysociety.org

👨‍🔬Scientific Advisors Drs. Max Edrmann & Ed Emmott @edemmott.bsky.social 🎭 Inspiration: "Bus Regulation: The Musical" by Ellie Harrison @ellieharrison.bsky.social 💷 Funded by @microbiologysociety.org & @britishscienceassociation.bsky.social #bsf25 #scicomm #sciencecommunication #skating #sciart

🤝 A collaboration between @liverpooluni.bsky.social & Liverpool Roller Birds ✍️🎬 Written, Directed & Produced by Dr. I'ah Donovan-Banfield @idb-virology.bsky.social 👯‍♀️Choreographed by Ani Bosco 📸 Director of Photography Dr. Rebee Penrice-Randal @rebee.bsky.social 📹 Videography by Paroketh Films

New paper: collaboration with Cambridge on EMCV 2B* now published journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Congratulations to Markella Loi from the @emmottlab.bsky.social on winning the Early Career Award for #BSPR2025 and congratulations to @hannahmayging.bsky.social on being the runner

The lab got a nice bit of news yesterday! LEAF gold!

We have projects available on single-cell proteomics, including methods development, and applications to antiviral development and resistance. If you have a strong background in proteomics and are considering an MSCA, get in touch! marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-op...

Nikolai and his group are based at Northeastern University and have been pioneers in the field of single cell proteomics. He will talk about the methods his lab has worked on for multiplexed approaches in SCP, including plexDIA

As we get ready for the British Society for Proteome Research annual meeting in Liverpool (July 7-9th), we will start highlighting our amazing speakers. First is @slavov-n.bsky.social who will talk to us about Biological and technological frontiers for single-cell proteomics.

First poster as @emmottlab.bsky.social PDRAs 🥳 #Microsoc25

First 2025 paper: delighted to have contributed to this paper on the emergence of a new subgenomic mRNA in SARS-CoV-2 from the Bauer lab journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Another PhD studentship is available for Oct 2025 start! In a collaboration between the @pirbrightinst.bsky.social and us, you will be investigating the role of novel avian coronavirus accessory genes. See here for more details! www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Deadline 17 Feb, funded for UK only.

The deadlines for our MRC-funded studentships have now passed, but a funded studentship through the BBSRC NWD DLA is now available for Oct 2025 start in single cell mass spectrometry. See findaphd for more details or drop Ed an email. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Reminder - if you are a new PI in UK virology and you aren’t yet registered for RIVR2025 on Jan9-10th in Liverpool, registration closes on December 5th! If you are a new group leader in virology in the UK and aren’t yet on the RIVR mailing list, get in touch to be added.

Loading a mass spec and a nanopore in the same day! Thrilled to be learning another omics method in the @emmottlab.bsky.social 🧬

We have two funded PhD studentships available through DiMeN_DTP programme for Oct2025 Standard_2025_127: Understanding the mechanisms of norovirus replication (Dr Edward Emmot) Standard_2025_71: Widening the ‘NET’ to identify new treatments for bronchiectasis (Dr Helen Wright)

Just to warn we do not have any positions available in our lab- some fraudulent adverts are being circulated on LinkedIn and possibly elsewhere - the link to the lab website is real but all the links below and the details are all fake.

New paper: Porcine Sapovirus Protease Controls the Innate Immune Response and Targets TBK1. Work led by Ileana Georgana from the Goodfellow lab www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/16...

These positions are now available to apply for! - see thread below!

The lab is hiring PhD students and PDRAs for 2024 start! Projects going in proteomics/mass spectrometry and virology.

A second funded PhD studentship is available for Oct 2024 start! - Investigating the interactions of Rift Valley fever virus RdRP. You will be primarily based with Alain Kohl at LSTM, working with us on the LC-MS/MS portions. Deadline Jan 24. www.lstmed.ac.uk/study/resear...

News is now out officially! Hugely grateful for this award which will let us study coronavirus replication, in particular the role of polyprotein precursors over the next 8 years! Adverts for two new PDRA positions are working through HR and will be up shortly. news.liverpool.ac.uk/2023/12/01/2...

Funded PhD student ship in the lab for Oct 2024 start - expanding single-cell proteomics to single-cell multi omics. This is a CASE project in collaboration with Cellenion and SwanseaUni. Deadline Jan 15. For details see: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Congrats to Dr Rosie Maher whose preprint on proteomic analysis of pulmonary aspiration from her PhD studies with Rob Benton and Paul McNamara is now available on @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social : www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

New paper: The SARS-CoV-2 protein ORF3c is a mitochondrial modulator of innate immunity www.cell.com/iscience/ful... Delighted to have contributed to this work, led by Hazel Stewart from the Firth Lab, and Yongxu Lu!

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