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Richard Sloan Lab. Viruses and Innate Immunity. Edinburgh University and ZJE Institute, China.

https://www.ed.ac.uk/infection-medicine/our-staff/principal-investigators/dr-richard-sloan
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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
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...
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Congratulations @nellymak.bsky.social! So proud. Glad your postdoc lab is treating you well.
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 30, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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💭Check our brand new Research Focus - featuring publications from across the Edinburgh Infectious Diseases network!

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Full article here ➡️ edinburgh-infectious-diseases.ed.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
January 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Just a reminder to apply for this PhD project in our lab @edinuni-irr.bsky.social using a mix of CRISPR screening and computational approaches to find antiviral factors. Deadline Monday 13th January. Fully funded and international applicants accepted. Please share!
@uoe-eid.bsky.social
PhD opportunity in our lab at Edinburgh University! Analysing CRISPR screens for proviral and antiviral factors focusing on coronaviruses and influenza A virus. Using a mix of wet lab and computational approaches (full training provided).
#ViroSky #ImmunoSky

usher.ed.ac.uk/precision-me...
Meta-analysis of genome wide functional screens to identify broad-spectrum antiviral and immuno-therapeutic targets
Precision Medicine Project - Meta-analysis of genome wide functional screens to identify broad-spectrum antiviral and immuno-therapeutic targets
usher.ed.ac.uk
January 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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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⬇️
December 29, 2024 at 7:09 AM
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
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 28, 2024 at 11:28 PM
Second fully funded PhD in our lab! @edinuni-irr.bsky.social Interested in how endogenous retroelements shape bat immune responses? Fully funded PhD with some teaching in China. Excellent supervisors include @batresearch.bsky.social

biomedical-sciences.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate...

#ViroSky #Immunosky
Fully funded 4 Year PhD studentships in Biomedical Sciences
Applications are invited from outstanding students wishing to pursue a 4 Year PhD studentship in Biomedical Sciences from September 2025.
biomedical-sciences.ed.ac.uk
December 12, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Awesome opportunity to do a PhD in a building filled top to bottom with outstanding virologists, all in sunny Glasgow. What's not to love? Strong recommend...
Do you want to become a virologist?
The @CVRinfo PhD programme is now recruiting for both UK and international applicants - rotate in two labs then choose a project tailored to your interests.
Also you get to live in Glasgow, which is fab.
Please RT!
www.findaphd.com/phds/program...
November 22, 2024 at 3:36 PM
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Give a follow to the amazing @uoe-eid.bsky.social community which brings together virologists, scientists, and social scientists talking about viruses!

#MedSky #IDSky #MedID #PublicHealth #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter
Welcome to our brand new Blue Sky page!

We are really excited to be here to engage with our network in friendly, informative and productive ways!

Join us 😊
November 20, 2024 at 10:27 AM
PhD opportunity in our lab at Edinburgh University! Analysing CRISPR screens for proviral and antiviral factors focusing on coronaviruses and influenza A virus. Using a mix of wet lab and computational approaches (full training provided).
#ViroSky #ImmunoSky

usher.ed.ac.uk/precision-me...
Meta-analysis of genome wide functional screens to identify broad-spectrum antiviral and immuno-therapeutic targets
Precision Medicine Project - Meta-analysis of genome wide functional screens to identify broad-spectrum antiviral and immuno-therapeutic targets
usher.ed.ac.uk
November 15, 2024 at 3:31 AM
New lab preprint! Understanding innate immunity in bats is important given their role in viral spillovers and with their unusual immune systems. Here we study antiviral IFITM genes in horseshoe bats and find alternative splicing is key to functional antiviral diversity: doi.org/10.1101/2023...
December 6, 2023 at 9:56 PM
Our review on the Lv2/RPRD2 restriction of HIV is finally published in mBio! Led by talented postdoc Kathryn Jackson-Jones who took on the task of summarising a couple of decades of molecular virology by co-author Aine McKnight doi.org/10.1128/mbio... 1/n
October 27, 2023 at 8:19 AM
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We are looking for 2 postdocs (a molecular virologist and a bioinfomatician with wet lab experience) to work on our ERC-funded InVIRium project! We're based in Montpellier, France and we aim to better characterize respiratory virus replication in pertinent models of primary airway epithelia.
October 16, 2023 at 6:18 AM
Excellent PhD opportunity to study how species resist viral infection using bioinformatics, virology, and animal models at Edinburgh Uni. Led by Rob Young at the Usher Institute, virology with me, and animal models with Elly Gaunt at Roslin:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#ViroSky #ImmunoSky
October 11, 2023 at 8:04 PM