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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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Huge congratulations to Emma Davis, the winner of 2025's Early Career Microbiologist of the Year prize! We agree with Emma that all of the finalists' talks were brilliant and a massive well done to everyone involved!
October 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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🚨 New Web Resource Alert! 🚨 We're delighted to share Viro3D a database of >85000 viral protein structure predictions from >4400 human & animal viruses.

🔗 viro3d.cvr.gla.ac.uk
📄 www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

@molsystbiol.org @cvrinfo.bsky.social @uofgmvls.bsky.social #Virology #AlphaFold 🧪 🦠
Viro3D
viro3d.cvr.gla.ac.uk
September 26, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Our ELP winner @grovearmada.bsky.social and his team have launched Viro3D, an AI-powered virus protein database, which will help scientists understand and combat emerging viral threats more efficiently.

Read more here: https://bit.ly/3IIfND1

@cvrinfo.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Researchers launch world’s most comprehensive human virus protein database
A look at new Foundation-funded research by Dr Joe Grove and his team at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research.
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September 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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🎉 Fletcher lab PhD student Emma Davies reflecting on her prize winning talk - we’re super proud of you Emma - many congrats! 🎉

@cvrinfo.bsky.social @uofgsii.bsky.social @uofgmvls.bsky.social
Huge congratulations to Emma Davis, the winner of 2025's Early Career Microbiologist of the Year prize! We agree with Emma that all of the finalists' talks were brilliant and a massive well done to everyone involved!
October 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Last year we organised an interdisciplinary workshop on 'Preparing for Pandemics' with @cvrinfo.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social and others.
A white paper summarising our discussions on Countering Disinformation and Distrust is now available (1/2):
committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide...
Written evidence submitted by Cogito Epistemology Research Centre, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (DIS0039)
committees.parliament.uk
October 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
📢 VACANCY | Research Assistant/Associate - Data Analysis

Support @drtoniho.bsky.social & @louisapollock.bsky.social's Pfizer-funded research project focused on effectiveness of maternal #RSV vaccination in infants in Scotland.

More: bit.ly/CVR-WorkWithUs
Apply: gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/ Ref 180274
August 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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📣Come work with us!

Looking for a Research Assistant/Associate in Data Analysis, for a Pfizer-funded research project focused on effectiveness of maternal #RSV vaccination in infants in Scotland.

More: bit.ly/3Va7yCd
Enq to: @louisapollock.bsky.social
Closing: 17 Sept 25

@cvrinfo.bsky.social
August 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
📢 VACANCY | Genomics Research Assistant

Play a leading role in a UKRI-funded collaboration (MRC-UVRI) with a focus on #CCHF virus.

More: bit.ly/CVR-WorkWithUs Ref 180092
Apply: gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/
August 20, 2025 at 11:27 AM
💉 New Research to Track How Well RSV Vaccines Protect Scottish Babies

Congratulations to @drtoniho.bsky.social & @louisapollock.bsky.social who have received funding from Pfizer to track the real-world effectiveness of RSV vaccines given to pregnant women across Scotland.

cvr.ac.uk/engage/news/...
August 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
📃NEW | Common Liver Treatment Shows Potential to Reduce Hospital SARS-CoV-2 Cases

@chrisillingworth.bsky.social & colleagues used computer simulations to show that UDCA could reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission in hospitals by 17%.

cvr.ac.uk/engage/news/...

Research: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Common Liver Treatment Shows Potential to Reduce Hospital SARS-CoV-2 Cases
New research suggests that ursodeoxycholic acid, a cheap liver drug, could reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission in hospitals by 17%. Using computer simulations, scientists modelled how the drug lowers ACE2 ...
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August 12, 2025 at 10:55 AM
📢 VACANCY | Computational Biologist/Bioinformatician 🦠

Join our brilliant team and contribute to the analysis of antiviral host-mechanisms and comparative virology datasets.

📆 Deadline: 25 August

Info: bit.ly/CVR-WorkWithUs Ref 178592
Apply: gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/
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August 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
📢 Calling all Postgrad Virologists! 🦠

Postgraduate Virologists Network are hosting their first conference for virology students, by virology students.

📍 @uofglasgow.bsky.social
📆 8-9 September

Register and submit an abstract: www.postgradvirologistsnetwork.co.uk/2025-meeting
Another reminder that registration and abstract submission are still open for our 2025 meeting: the first annual virology conference by virology students, for virology students 🦠 A brilliant opportunity for PhD and MSc students to discuss their work and network!
August 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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🚨Are we overestimating viral immunity in people with HIV?🚨
In our new study, we found that a widely used lab test might give false positives for people with HIV who are on certain types of medication (integrase inhibitors)
Here’s what we found 🧵1/n
August 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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🚨New paper 🚨

In 2 cohorts:
1) Malawi community cohort
2) UK adults with acute HCV

We found overestimation of neutralising abs using retrovirus-based pseudotyped assays in persons receiving integrase inhibitors, e.g. dolutegravir.

🧵by @mhairijan.bsky.social👇

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
📃 A Hidden Glitch: How HIV drugs can distort virus immunity tests

‪@mhairijan.bsky.social‬ & colleagues found a flaw in widely used virus immunity tests. HIV drugs can interfere with lab results, causing false positives that mislead our understanding of immune responses.

gla.ac.uk/research/az/...
August 6, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Massive congratulations Elen!! 🎉👏
Proud supervisor post! 👏🙌😬

Congratulations to @elenvink.bsky.social, @cvrinfo.bsky.social Clinical Viral Epi Group & @emcat1.bsky.social #PhD student, for passing her viva! 🎉🍾

Thanks to @thushan-desilva.bsky.social & Ana Filipe for being fantastic examiners.
August 6, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Prof Emma Thomson joined Dr Stella Atim, Dr Catherine Houlihan & Dr Naomi Walker to author a chapter on Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers in 'Principles of Medicine in Africa'.

Essential for understanding these critical pathogens & preparing outbreak response.

doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers: Lassa Fever, Rift Valley Fever, Ebola/Marburg Fever and Crimean–Congo Fever (Chapter 40) - Principles of Medicine in Africa
Principles of Medicine in Africa - June 2025
doi.org
July 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
‼️ Today is the last day to register for the Glasgow Virology Workshop!

📆 Friday 5th September 2025
📍 Hunter Halls,
@uofglasgow.bsky.social

More info and registration links: gla.ac.uk/research/az/...
July 24, 2025 at 9:45 AM
🦟 Dengue, a mosquito-borne disease, is expected to rise in a warming world.

This video by MSc student Hannah Stephens explores how #dengue transmission may shift with climate change and how innovative research could help control it.

@uofglasgow.bsky.social

youtu.be/zY1F875_M80
Dengue in a Warming World: Can We Control It?
YouTube video by MRC - UofGlasgow Centre for Virus Research
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July 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Today we have been at the Glasgow Science Centre showcasing our new Lego based DNA sequencer: GO-Seq, to learn about respiratory viruses, their DNA and sequencing. @cvrinfo.bsky.social @glasgowscience.bsky.social
July 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Exciting news! 🎉
We’re proud to announce the appointment of Professor Deborah Williamson @uniofstandrews.bsky.social and Professor Emma Thomson‪ @uofglasgow.bsky.social as inaugural Co-Directors of the National Scottish Pandemic Sciences Partnership.

Find out more 🔽
publichealthscotland.scot/news/2025/ju...

#NSPSP
July 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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