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MRC-UofG Centre for Virus Research
@cvrinfo.bsky.social
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Fascinated by viruses and the diseases they cause.
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drtoniho.bsky.social
Congratulations to @cvrinfo.bsky.social Clinical Viral Epidemiology Group @emcat1.bsky.social student @elenvink.bsky.social who graduated from her PhD in Virology yesterday!! 🎓🎉🍾🙌
December 10, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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socialinfluenza.bsky.social
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:
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What does it mean if I get flu after the jab? Do COVID boosters increase the risk of side-effects? Key flu vaccine questions answered
This year’s flu season started early and is expected to be severe. Here’s what you need to know about getting vaccinated, from timing and side-effects to how well it works.
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December 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
cvrinfo.bsky.social
👏 Well done to Patawee Asamaphan for winning the prize for best oral presentation at the recent Glasgow Paediatric Research Open Day.
Two individuals are standing outdoors in front of a gray brick wall. One person is wearing navy blue medical scrubs with a visible ID badge clipped to the waist, while the other is dressed casually in a light striped shirt over a white t-shirt and jeans. They are shaking hands on a paved surface.
December 5, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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socialinfluenza.bsky.social
BBC News - Flu: Children hit hardest as cases in Northern Ireland surge - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Flu: Children hit hardest as cases in Northern Ireland surge
Paediatric emergency medicine consultant Dr Julie-Ann Maney says it is a particularly virulent strain of influenza.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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socialinfluenza.bsky.social
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
A poster with branding for the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre fo Virus Research, labelled 'Virus Snowflakes.' The poster shows snowflake-like virus designs and song lyrics reading: On the twelfth day of Christmas, a virus gave to me, Twelve fights worth winning, Eleven Christmas dinners, Ten lunar landers, Nine childhood vaccines, Eight tools for teaching, Seven dogs a-barking, Six wasps a-laying, FIIIIVE TIIINY RIIIIIIINGS, Four vaccine platforms, Three genome segments, Two twinned capsids, and A world that is too small to see
December 1, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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socialinfluenza.bsky.social
🚨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
Avian-origin influenza A viruses tolerate elevated pyrexic temperatures in mammals
Host body temperature can define a virus’s replicative profile—influenza A viruses (IAVs) adapted to 40° to 42°C in birds are less temperature sensitive in vitro compared with human isolates adapted t...
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November 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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socialinfluenza.bsky.social
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...
FindAPhD : The MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR) PhD Funded Programme at University of Glasgow
Apply for a PhD: The MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR) PhD Funded Programme at University of Glasgow
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November 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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socialinfluenza.bsky.social
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...
November 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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uofgsii.bsky.social
🆕 | 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...

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November 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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itingtu.bsky.social
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
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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drtoniho.bsky.social
🚨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...
October 31, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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uofgnews.bsky.social
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

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Scientists use AI to learn the intricate language of biomolecules
Scientists at the University of Glasgow have harnessed a powerful supercomputer, normally used by astronomers and physicists to study the universe, to develop a new machine learning model which can he...
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October 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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socialinfluenza.bsky.social
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
A group of four smiling men. The man in the middle, who is younger, taller, and has the relieved but slightly tousled air of someone who has just spent four hours in an extremely intense but successful discussion of their last four years of original research work, is the newly-minted Dr Cal Bentley-Abbot: microscopist, cyclist, climber and gentleman.
December 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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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!
October 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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grovearmada.bsky.social
🚨 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 🧪 🦠
Viro3D
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September 26, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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medresfdn.bsky.social
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
Researchers launch world’s most comprehensive human virus protein database
A look at new Foundation-funded research by Dr Joe Grove and his team at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research.
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September 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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fletcherlab.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
microbiologysociety.org Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · Oct 7
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!
October 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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socialinfluenza.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...
Written evidence submitted by Cogito Epistemology Research Centre, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (DIS0039)
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October 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
cvrinfo.bsky.social
📢 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
August 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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drtoniho.bsky.social
📣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
August 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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/
August 20, 2025 at 11:27 AM
cvrinfo.bsky.social
💉 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/...
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August 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
cvrinfo.bsky.social
📃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...
Common Liver Treatment Shows Potential to Reduce Hospital SARS-CoV-2 Cases
New research suggests that ursodeoxycholic acid, a cheap liver drug, could reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission in hospitals by 17%. Using computer simulations, scientists modelled how the drug lowers ACE2 ...
cvr.ac.uk
August 12, 2025 at 10:55 AM
cvrinfo.bsky.social
📢 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/
University of Glasgow - Research - Research units A-Z - MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research - About Us - Work with us
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August 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
cvrinfo.bsky.social
📢 Calling all Postgrad Virologists! 🦠

Postgraduate Virologists Network are hosting their first conference for virology students, by virology students.

📍 @uofglasgow.bsky.social
📆 8-9 September

Register and submit an abstract: www.postgradvirologistsnetwork.co.uk/2025-meeting
pgvironetwork.bsky.social Postgraduate Virologists Network @pgvironetwork.bsky.social · Aug 6
Another reminder that registration and abstract submission are still open for our 2025 meeting: the first annual virology conference by virology students, for virology students 🦠 A brilliant opportunity for PhD and MSc students to discuss their work and network!
August 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM