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Jeremy Keown
@jeremykeown.bsky.social
Kiwi | Structural Biology | RNA viruses
PI in the School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, UK
Previously Grimes lab in STRUBI, Oxford.

https://jeremyrkeown.owlstown.net/
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If you are looking for a PhD in the UK, please check out the LIDo program - www.lido-dtp.ac.uk/apply.
If you are interested in viruses and making genetically edited salmon, please look up my icase project.
International students are welcome to apply!
Please reach out if you have questions.
November 4, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Reposted by Jeremy Keown
Our new preprint is out 🥳🥳🥳

Henipaviruses, like Nipah and Hendra, package their genomes inside helical shells built by thousands of nucleoproteins. These nucleocapsids are essential to protect the viral RNA, but how do they ever let the polymerase in to read the sequence?

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November 3, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Reposted by Jeremy Keown
Jeremy is an excellent scientist and leader. Highly recommended!
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

I am advertising for a PhD position in my group. We'll be investigating how pathogenic RNA viruses replicate in the nucleus. The project will teach cryoEM/ET, virus culture, and in vitro assays.

If you're interested reach out and I'd be happy to have a chat.
Dr Jeremy Keown
Dr Jeremy Keown
warwick.ac.uk
October 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

I am advertising for a PhD position in my group. We'll be investigating how pathogenic RNA viruses replicate in the nucleus. The project will teach cryoEM/ET, virus culture, and in vitro assays.

If you're interested reach out and I'd be happy to have a chat.
Dr Jeremy Keown
Dr Jeremy Keown
warwick.ac.uk
October 24, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Reposted by Jeremy Keown
Looking for a PhD? 🚀 MIBTP projects are out lots to explore!
🔬 #Bacteria#AMR#Interdisciplinary • FUN!
My projects explore how Gram-negative bacteria build and maintain their three-layered cell envelope, using cryo-EM, fluorescence microscopy and biochemistry.
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
Dr Melissa Webby
Dr Melissa Webby
warwick.ac.uk
October 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Really excited to have our work out in the world. CCHFV has a 450kDa L-Protein, about twice the size of L-Proteins from other segmented RNA viruses. We have used cryoEM and functional assays to begin to understand it this massive multifunctional protein works.
Structural and functional characterisation of the Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever Virus RNA Dependent RNA Polymerase
Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever Virus (CCHFV) is found across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East where it can cause Haemorrhagic outbreaks with high case fatality rates. Central to the viral life cycl...
www.biorxiv.org
October 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Reposted by Jeremy Keown
Postdoc opportunity in another group in my department:
October 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Reposted by Jeremy Keown
Register now for this fantastic, friendly and affordable influenza community meeting - hope to see you there!

Please spread the word 😊
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
Influenza Update 2025
University of Warwick, 15th - 16th December
warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/med/...
Registration from £50 - £120
DEADLINE: 7th November
We hope you can join us there!
October 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
Influenza Update 2025
University of Warwick, 15th - 16th December
warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/med/...
Registration from £50 - £120
DEADLINE: 7th November
We hope you can join us there!
October 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Reposted by Jeremy Keown
I am very excited to share our preprint: ‘Divergent antibody-mediated population immunity to H5, H7 and H9 subtype potential pandemic influenza viruses’.

The first authors are Lucas Benjamin Stolle, Jai Bolton, Rebecca Steventon & Reanna Gregory.

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September 10, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Reposted by Jeremy Keown
Dear scientific community,

I am looking for two postdoctoral structural biologists to join my group at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford.

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
September 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Very pleased to have our new work out where we perform a structure/function study on the bornavirus polymerase complex with fantastic coauthors. Have a read www.nature.com/articles/s41... @warwicklifesci.bsky.social @loiccarrique.bsky.social @franziskaguenl.bsky.social
The structure of the mammalian bornavirus polymerase complex - Nature Communications
Borna disease virus 1 replicates and transcribes its negative sense RNA genome in the nucleus of infected cells. Here, the authors present the cryoEM structures of the large polymerase protein in comp...
www.nature.com
August 13, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Excited to share our work describing a series of structures that allow us to propose a new model for Hantavirus genome replication by the viral L-protein. Another great experience with @loiccarrique.bsky.social @ben-nilsson-payant.bsky.social @efodor.bsky.social Jon Grimes.
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Structural characterization of the full-length Hantaan virus polymerase
Author summary Hantaviruses are widely distributed viruses that can undergo zoonosis where they cause severe disease in humans. Old World hantaviruses, found predominantly in Asia and Europe, can caus...
doi.org
December 13, 2024 at 5:02 PM