@foxenia.bsky.social
Favorite volunteering gig: Big Biology Day in October! 💚
Huge thanks to our next-generation assistants — the teens who made it all run so smoothly!
And to @valerialulla.bsky.social, who inspires (and leads!) our station every year 🙌
Huge thanks to our next-generation assistants — the teens who made it all run so smoothly!
And to @valerialulla.bsky.social, who inspires (and leads!) our station every year 🙌
October 31, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Favorite volunteering gig: Big Biology Day in October! 💚
Huge thanks to our next-generation assistants — the teens who made it all run so smoothly!
And to @valerialulla.bsky.social, who inspires (and leads!) our station every year 🙌
Huge thanks to our next-generation assistants — the teens who made it all run so smoothly!
And to @valerialulla.bsky.social, who inspires (and leads!) our station every year 🙌
Our lab is recruiting a PhD student to explore how RNA viruses hijack ribosomes and reprogram host translation.
A great opportunity for anyone passionate about RNA biology and virology!
A great opportunity for anyone passionate about RNA biology and virology!
📢 We are hiring! We have a fully funded 4-year PhD studentship to study how RNA viruses steal ribosomes and reprogram host translation, thanks to funding from @campathology.bsky.social and @wellcometrust.bsky.social! Come join us!
Full details: www.path.cam.ac.uk/graduate/ful...
Full details: www.path.cam.ac.uk/graduate/ful...
October 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Our lab is recruiting a PhD student to explore how RNA viruses hijack ribosomes and reprogram host translation.
A great opportunity for anyone passionate about RNA biology and virology!
A great opportunity for anyone passionate about RNA biology and virology!
Reposted
These findings are similar to recent work on the EMCV Type 2 IRES — see e.g. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...; www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... — and suggest that common structural motifs and mechanisms may exist within highly divergent picornavirus IRES sequences
The mechanism of ribosomal recruitment during translation initiation on Type 2 IRESs
The encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV) IRES and other Type 2 IRESs comprise domains H-L and specifically interact with eIF4G/eIF4A through their essential JK domain. However, the JK domain is not suffi...
www.biorxiv.org
October 7, 2025 at 11:37 AM
These findings are similar to recent work on the EMCV Type 2 IRES — see e.g. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...; www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... — and suggest that common structural motifs and mechanisms may exist within highly divergent picornavirus IRES sequences
The preprint from this great collaboration just went live!
Enteroviruses cause over a billion infections each year, but the details of how their genomes capture host ribosomes have remained elusive. I'm pleased to share a new preprint from Miguel in our group, providing some new insights into this problem:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Structural and mechanistic insights into translation initiation on the enterovirus Type 1 IRES
Enteroviruses are a widespread and diverse set of pathogens responsible for over ~1 billion human infections annually. Upon cell entry, translation of the virus genome is mediated by an internal ribos...
www.biorxiv.org
October 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The preprint from this great collaboration just went live!
Wonderful to be part of this collaboration — great teams and great science!
This was a fantastic collaboration with the groups of @valerialulla.bsky.social @campathology.bsky.social and Trevor Sweeney @pirbrightinst.bsky.social. Thanks also to superb colleagues and facilities @biologyatyork.bsky.social, YSBL, @ybri-uoy.bsky.social and @diamondlightsource.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Wonderful to be part of this collaboration — great teams and great science!
Celebrating with the amazing @campathology.bsky.social team at #Microbio25! Fantastic talks, posters, and great company! 👏
@microbiologysociety.org
@microbiologysociety.org
Celebratory dinner for the @campathology.bsky.social crew at #microbio25 to celebrate fabulous talks and poster presentations!
April 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Celebrating with the amazing @campathology.bsky.social team at #Microbio25! Fantastic talks, posters, and great company! 👏
@microbiologysociety.org
@microbiologysociety.org
A nighttime shot of a grand hall filled with posters at #Microbio25.
Thanks to everyone who came to the discussion about functional RNA elements in viral genomes after finding my poster among this abundance.
@microbiologysociety.org
Thanks to everyone who came to the discussion about functional RNA elements in viral genomes after finding my poster among this abundance.
@microbiologysociety.org
April 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
A nighttime shot of a grand hall filled with posters at #Microbio25.
Thanks to everyone who came to the discussion about functional RNA elements in viral genomes after finding my poster among this abundance.
@microbiologysociety.org
Thanks to everyone who came to the discussion about functional RNA elements in viral genomes after finding my poster among this abundance.
@microbiologysociety.org
Excited to attend the annual conference in Liverpool! Great talks, many old and new faces, lovely city!
#Microbio25
@microbiologysociety.org
#Microbio25
@microbiologysociety.org
April 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Excited to attend the annual conference in Liverpool! Great talks, many old and new faces, lovely city!
#Microbio25
@microbiologysociety.org
#Microbio25
@microbiologysociety.org