Up a bit earlier than I’d like… but excited for me and my lab to present at the Irish Microbiology Society meeting in beautiful - and slightly isolated - Athlone!

It was great to speak with the BBC’s State of Us podcast about the science behind vaccines in the wake of the pandemic, alongside a local politician Paul Frew

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

🦠 "Social Virology at the Tri-Kingdom Interface in Birds and Mammals" 🐥

We have a new 4y (open to intl students) PhD project advertised through the NorthWestBio Doctoral Training Partnership (lnkd.in/ee8hRpN6 ) between QUBelfast and Lancaster on virus-bacterial interactions across vertebrates!

Wonderful early morning on my first day lecturing this semester - teaching second years about all things antibodies and their uses!

Inspiring day at the @yai.ie ‘s “evidence for policy summit” with a big focus on how early career researchers fit into the system across the island, with a focus on sustainability and a fair and inclusive society. Big thanks to Johnathan Dalzell from DAERA coming down from NI.

Well done 2nd year PhD student, Kaitie Donovan, in the lab who did superb in her first conference presentation at #microbio25 describing her work on type III IFNs

Wow - some universities look much nicer than others! Excited to down at UCD today

On route to Trinity College Dublin to present some of our work and give a seminar entitled “Embracing Diversity and (R)evolution at the Virus-Host Interface”!

We are at NI Science Festival “biology showcase” at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social beta testing our virus game “Sense and Susceptibility”! Along with our classic build a virus activity

Interesting quote from obituary of Michael Stoker microbiologysociety.org/publication/...

Beautiful and although I’m a fan, surprised haggis didn’t make the original dishes despite black pudding making it a couple of times

St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast NI.

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