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MRC-UofG Centre for Virus Research
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Fascinated by viruses and the diseases they cause.
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📢 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
International Pandemic Sciences Conference 2026.
The International Pandemic Sciences Conference 2026, convened by the Pandemic Sciences Institute and co-hosted by Singapore's PREPARE
cvent.me
February 16, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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socialinfluenza.bsky.social
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 🦠🥳🦠
Sarah doesn't really like photographs, so here is a linocut of a golden cube of the main CVR building, labelled 'Sir Michael Stoker Building' (Image: Ed Hutchinson)
February 6, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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thepandemicinst.bsky.social
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
February 3, 2026 at 10:25 AM
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🦅 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...
Ecology and environment predict spatially stratified risk of H5 highly pathogenic avian influenza clade 2.3.4.4b in wild birds across Europe - Scientific Reports
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) represents a threat to animal and human health, with the ongoing H5N1 outbreak within the H5 2.3.4.4b clade being one of the largest on record. However, it rem...
www.nature.com
February 4, 2026 at 11:32 AM
cvrinfo.bsky.social
🎤 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/...
Bright Club Glasgow - The Stand Comedy Club
Bright Club is the thinking person variety night. Bright Club’s unique blend of comedy, academia and music has won support from New Scientist, The Guardian, ...
www.thestand.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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socialinfluenza.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...
A data figure showing a phylogenetic tree of H3N2 with 2025-K highlighted, the structure of the HA trimer with mutations characteristic of K highlighted, and box and whisker plots showing % neutralisation of the 2022 H3N2 vaccine strain, and of 2025 clade K, by various human antisera
January 30, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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We’re excited to announce our 9th Introduction to Viral #Bioinformatics course, starting 15 June 2026! 🧬
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Course information👉 tinyurl.com/yc8285zd
January 20, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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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...
Subclade K influenza A (H3N2) viruses display partial immune escape with preserved cross-neutralisation in a UK population
We examined whether the recent emergence of influenza A(H3N2) subclade K, associated with an unusually early influenza season in the Northern hemisphere, was accompanied by a reduction in human popula...
www.medrxiv.org
January 30, 2026 at 9:50 AM
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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...
Client Challenge
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January 12, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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🦟 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/...
UofG to co-lead major new project on mosquitoes
A major new project on mosquitoes, their viruses, and associated disease risks in Northern Ireland will be co-led by a multi-institutional team which includes the University of Glasgow, Queen’s Univer...
www.gla.ac.uk
January 9, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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📢 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
January 7, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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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...
January 7, 2026 at 10:05 AM
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🎉 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.
Fluorescent microscopy image showing three large, irregularly shaped cells with colorful staining. Each cell has a bright yellow nucleus, while the surrounding cytoskeleton is highlighted in different colors: teal, magenta, and purple. The cells are connected by thin, elongated extensions, and the background is black. A scale bar at the bottom right indicates 50 µm.
January 6, 2026 at 11:33 AM
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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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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...
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.
theconversation.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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👏 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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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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🚨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...
www.science.org
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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🆕 | 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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An image of six members of the Streicker Group conducted research in the field at night. They are huddled together around a table and under a canopy, with the dark night lit my artificial light.
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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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