Nelly Mak
@nellymak.bsky.social
Postdoc in the Jolly lab @UCL studying T cell reprogramming by HIV-1 🇬🇧 | PhD on bat antiviral IFITMs @Edinburgh🦇 | virus-host interactions 🦠 | 🏠 Hong Kong
Twitter @NellyMak_sc (for Sky Follower Bridge)
Twitter @NellyMak_sc (for Sky Follower Bridge)
Thanks @stratechscientific.bsky.social for expanding my @giantmicrobes.bsky.social collection! Loving my new ssRNA friend :)
Congratulations to @nellymak.bsky.social from @jollylab.bsky.social our @giantmicrobes.bsky.social
winner from last week’s #LondonECRsymposium!! 🥳🎉
@london-immuno.bsky.social 🧬
#RNA #HIVresearch #infectionandimmunology #biotech #bioscience #lifesciences #microbiology #lablife
winner from last week’s #LondonECRsymposium!! 🥳🎉
@london-immuno.bsky.social 🧬
#RNA #HIVresearch #infectionandimmunology #biotech #bioscience #lifesciences #microbiology #lablife
June 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Thanks @stratechscientific.bsky.social for expanding my @giantmicrobes.bsky.social collection! Loving my new ssRNA friend :)
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Virtual Virology is back - our first ever phage session. Do join us...
May 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Virtual Virology is back - our first ever phage session. Do join us...
Got promoted to @richardsloanlab.bsky.social alumni last week 🎉🍾
Thank you Toshana and Paul for joining the people-who’s-read-my-thesis club, and for good discussions at the viva! #phdone
Thank you Toshana and Paul for joining the people-who’s-read-my-thesis club, and for good discussions at the viva! #phdone
February 3, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Got promoted to @richardsloanlab.bsky.social alumni last week 🎉🍾
Thank you Toshana and Paul for joining the people-who’s-read-my-thesis club, and for good discussions at the viva! #phdone
Thank you Toshana and Paul for joining the people-who’s-read-my-thesis club, and for good discussions at the viva! #phdone
Time to make myself useful with the new title and new project!
Congratulations to Dr @nellymak.bsky.social who returned to us victoriously from her PhD viva in Edinburgh! Fantastic job! We're very excited that she is starting her postdoc journey with us! 🥳
January 29, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Time to make myself useful with the new title and new project!
My first first-author paper is out! If you are curious about how alternative splicing fine-tunes the antiviral specificity of IFITMs in horseshoe bats, make this the last paper you will read in 2024⬇️
Our lab's latest paper published in PLoS Pathogens! Looking at functional diversity of antiviral IFITMs in horseshoe bats doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Led by PhD student @nellymak.bsky.social in collaboration with @batresearch.bsky.social
@uoe-eid.bsky.social @edinuni-irr.bsky.social #Immunosky #Virosky
Led by PhD student @nellymak.bsky.social in collaboration with @batresearch.bsky.social
@uoe-eid.bsky.social @edinuni-irr.bsky.social #Immunosky #Virosky
Alternative splicing expands the antiviral IFITM repertoire in Chinese rufous horseshoe bats
Author summary Zoonotic transmission occurs when viruses ‘jump’ from animals into human. This may lead to viral outbreaks such as the COVID-19 pandemic, posing a significant threat to public health. B...
doi.org
December 29, 2024 at 7:09 AM
My first first-author paper is out! If you are curious about how alternative splicing fine-tunes the antiviral specificity of IFITMs in horseshoe bats, make this the last paper you will read in 2024⬇️
I joined @jollylab.bsky.social at UCL as a postdoc this week! Still getting used to being in central London but I won’t complain about having pubs/restaurants only a few minutes away.
November 29, 2024 at 5:12 PM
I joined @jollylab.bsky.social at UCL as a postdoc this week! Still getting used to being in central London but I won’t complain about having pubs/restaurants only a few minutes away.
Successfully migrated all my previous tweets to this account using github.com/marcomaroni-... - woohoo! Seem to have lost the original posting dates for now but at least you can find out more about me by scrolling down👇🏻
GitHub - marcomaroni-github/twitter-to-bluesky: Import all tweets exported from X/Twitter to a Bluesky account.
Import all tweets exported from X/Twitter to a Bluesky account. - marcomaroni-github/twitter-to-bluesky
github.com
November 25, 2024 at 9:49 PM
Successfully migrated all my previous tweets to this account using github.com/marcomaroni-... - woohoo! Seem to have lost the original posting dates for now but at least you can find out more about me by scrolling down👇🏻
Guaranteed excellent supervisors - apply! https://twitter.com/RichardSloanLab/status/1857262571138453756
November 25, 2024 at 9:27 PM
Guaranteed excellent supervisors - apply! https://twitter.com/RichardSloanLab/status/1857262571138453756
Thank you Dr. Marjolein Kikkert for inviting me to present at their virology lab meeting in-person at @UniLeiden today! Great way to wrap up my Edinburgh-Leiden jointly funded PhD. 📷: “The One Who Waits” in the LUMC hospital lobby.
November 25, 2024 at 9:27 PM
Thank you Dr. Marjolein Kikkert for inviting me to present at their virology lab meeting in-person at @UniLeiden today! Great way to wrap up my Edinburgh-Leiden jointly funded PhD. 📷: “The One Who Waits” in the LUMC hospital lobby.
Lunchtime break from thesis writing. My toggl tracker says I’ve already spent 150 hours on it 😳 ✨Featuring very cute Lumie socks from @promega - thanks @MichaelaNoskov5 @promegauk !
November 25, 2024 at 9:27 PM
Lunchtime break from thesis writing. My toggl tracker says I’ve already spent 150 hours on it 😳 ✨Featuring very cute Lumie socks from @promega - thanks @MichaelaNoskov5 @promegauk !
Thanks to everyone who came to my talk and for all the questions/suggestions!! Here’s a photo of me and THE IFITM experts @YountLabOSU @compton_lab #ASV2024
November 25, 2024 at 9:27 PM
Thanks to everyone who came to my talk and for all the questions/suggestions!! Here’s a photo of me and THE IFITM experts @YountLabOSU @compton_lab #ASV2024
Catch my talk at *2:45pm Union station C today*. I’ll be talking about our preprint but ALSO some new computational stuff on diversification strategies of immune genes🤓 #ASV2024
November 25, 2024 at 9:27 PM
Catch my talk at *2:45pm Union station C today*. I’ll be talking about our preprint but ALSO some new computational stuff on diversification strategies of immune genes🤓 #ASV2024
Here we goooo #ASV2024 Great start with the satellite symposiums this morning. Loved @hannahkfrank’s talk on whether bats are special - they are (I knew it!) 🤩
November 25, 2024 at 9:27 PM
Here we goooo #ASV2024 Great start with the satellite symposiums this morning. Loved @hannahkfrank’s talk on whether bats are special - they are (I knew it!) 🤩
Me & @oceanchau left Edinburgh >24h ago to travel to #ASV2024. After a missed connection, 3 flight cancellations, 10h at the airport and 2h running around for a hotel room…we are still in NYC without our bags. I hope we make it there for our talks😭 @AmerSocVirol
November 25, 2024 at 9:27 PM
Me & @oceanchau left Edinburgh >24h ago to travel to #ASV2024. After a missed connection, 3 flight cancellations, 10h at the airport and 2h running around for a hotel room…we are still in NYC without our bags. I hope we make it there for our talks😭 @AmerSocVirol
I’ll be taking part in the Edinburgh 3MT finals tomorrow along with 8 other brilliant finalists from @cmvm_research @EdinUniCAHSSres @ColSciEng . Come join us - good content guaranteed 😉 https://twitter.com/UoE_IAD/status/1796120304630026447
November 25, 2024 at 9:26 PM
I’ll be taking part in the Edinburgh 3MT finals tomorrow along with 8 other brilliant finalists from @cmvm_research @EdinUniCAHSSres @ColSciEng . Come join us - good content guaranteed 😉 https://twitter.com/UoE_IAD/status/1796120304630026447
A bit late but yesterday’s #GlasgowVirologyWorkshop was again a great meeting with lovely people. Best parts were Sole from @RichardSloanLab winning the best talk, the ceilidh and finally meeting @lucygthorne :)
November 25, 2024 at 9:26 PM
A bit late but yesterday’s #GlasgowVirologyWorkshop was again a great meeting with lovely people. Best parts were Sole from @RichardSloanLab winning the best talk, the ceilidh and finally meeting @lucygthorne :)
My little cousin (10yo) has been obsessed with drawing ducks recently, and she drew me this yesterday🐥🥼
November 25, 2024 at 9:26 PM
My little cousin (10yo) has been obsessed with drawing ducks recently, and she drew me this yesterday🐥🥼
Heard from many brilliant PhD students in the college heat of the Three Minute Thesis competition @3MT_official today. See you at the Edinburgh university finals! 😉
@UoE_IAD @cmvm_research
@UoE_IAD @cmvm_research
November 25, 2024 at 9:26 PM
Heard from many brilliant PhD students in the college heat of the Three Minute Thesis competition @3MT_official today. See you at the Edinburgh university finals! 😉
@UoE_IAD @cmvm_research
@UoE_IAD @cmvm_research
Another fantastic @MicrobioSoc conference done🎉 Feels very different this year with the conference centre just a bus ride away from my flat 🏴Thanks for all the good chats and especially those who visited my poster! #Microbio24
November 25, 2024 at 9:26 PM
Another fantastic @MicrobioSoc conference done🎉 Feels very different this year with the conference centre just a bus ride away from my flat 🏴Thanks for all the good chats and especially those who visited my poster! #Microbio24
I’ll be at *poster B416* today to tell you all about bat IFITMs (as always) AND a recent project on functional diversification of immune genes by duplication & splicing! 🦇🧬✂️ #Microbio24
November 25, 2024 at 9:26 PM
I’ll be at *poster B416* today to tell you all about bat IFITMs (as always) AND a recent project on functional diversification of immune genes by duplication & splicing! 🦇🧬✂️ #Microbio24
I applied for a US visa (with my Hong Kong passport) to attend the @AmerSocVirol conference, but it was denied for further processing despite my pile of supporting documents at the interview… Has anyone experienced something similar?
I’m just trying to go to a conference🥲
I’m just trying to go to a conference🥲
November 25, 2024 at 9:25 PM
I applied for a US visa (with my Hong Kong passport) to attend the @AmerSocVirol conference, but it was denied for further processing despite my pile of supporting documents at the interview… Has anyone experienced something similar?
I’m just trying to go to a conference🥲
I’m just trying to go to a conference🥲
Celebrating the launch of @EdinUni_IRR at the #IRRlaunch symposium. Good to see the breadth of research in the new building! 🚚📦<2 weeks till we move
November 25, 2024 at 9:25 PM
Celebrating the launch of @EdinUni_IRR at the #IRRlaunch symposium. Good to see the breadth of research in the new building! 🚚📦<2 weeks till we move
Congratulations Pujitha!! So proud of you and very excited for your new chapter, you’ll be missed! https://twitter.com/RajaPujitha/status/1654628095326814210
November 25, 2024 at 9:25 PM
Congratulations Pujitha!! So proud of you and very excited for your new chapter, you’ll be missed! https://twitter.com/RajaPujitha/status/1654628095326814210