Our first Virtual Virology at QMUL! Three great speakers from my lab @melghazaly.bsky.social on Vpx and immune activation, @immun0liver.bsky.social on SARS and ADP-ribosylation, and @ali-hashim.bsky.social on transforming natural products into broad spectrum anti-virals. Excited for the next VV!

Delighted to have won a Wellcome Discovery Award for 8 more years of transformative research. We will advance our knowledge of innate immune mechanisms using viruses and chemotherapeutics as tools.

Thanks to everyone who contributed along the way.

Excellent presentation by our MERS superstar postdoc @ziqizhou.bsky.social at the UK International Coronavirus Network conference in Liverpool

Very proud of our postdocs @ziqizhou.bsky.social and @immun0liver.bsky.social for winning 1st Poster Prize (Ziqi Zhou) and 2nd Talk Prize (Oliver Wright) by an audience vote at the London Infection Network for/by ECRs held at the Crick Institute. Well done guys.

First paper of 2025 is out now! 🎉

Our talented postdocs @katemorling.bsky.social and @melghazaly.bsky.social review latest advancements of how HIV capsid and accessory proteins Vpx/Vpr have evolved (or not) to regulate host innate immunity.

www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Eurythmics Sweet Dreams. You can hear the sound of the underground trains. You know it feels like distant thunder.

Delighted to be presenting with my UCL colleagues at the 9th Princess Chulabhorn International Science Congress. My first talk on innate immunity in cancer. Thanks to Evolution Education Trust and PhD student Linran Wang and post doc Bruno Carvalho Ramos for their work and insight