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Prof Kondwani Jambo, PhD opens the 2nd Summit on Integrated Multiplex Serosurveillance. Looking forward to hearing & sharing updates on seroepidemiology studies in African countries. ๐ฉธ๐ฉโ๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ PHIM Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme Kamuzu University of Health Sciences Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Gates Foundation


๐ข You have THREE days left to submit an abstract for the upcoming #GlasgowVirologyWorkshop! We'd love to hear from delegates of all backgrounds and career stages. Send a PDF with your abstract, name, email and affiliation toย [email protected].

๐ฆ Bright Club Glasgowย is back! Join us for an evening of live stand-up comedy where our wonderfully funny academics communicate their work through laughs. ๐ The Stand Comedy Club ๐ Mon 9th June, 19:30 ๐๏ธ Tickets ยฃ8 (ยฃ6 concessions) Book now: thestand.co.uk/performance/19โฆ

Delighted to present our latest work using serology & next-gen sequencing to understand respiratory viral epidemiology in #Malawi to MEIRU MALAWI PHIM colleagues ๐ซ๐ฆ ๐ฉธ๐งช๐งฌ๐ Mhairi McCormack Kirsty Kwok Andrew Mwale Abena S. Amoah, PhD ๐ฉ๐พโ๐ป๐ฉ๐พโ๐ฌ


If you don't pasteurise it, how long can H5N1 influenza viruses stay infectious for in milk? We had a look at this in a new preprint with MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, The Roslin Institute, The Pirbright Institute & APHA (1/N) medrxiv.org/content/10.110โฆ



We are super excited about this news! ๐ Emma Thomson Prof Emma Thomson is an internationally recognised expert in emerging infectious diseases and will continue to lead the CVR as it plays a key part in national and international pandemic response. gla.ac.uk/research/az/cvโฆ


Prof. David L. Robertson Robertson (Univ. of Glasgow MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research) will speak at AI in Virology! A leading expert on #SARSCoV2 and #HIV, he'll present how Protein Language Models help study viral evolution. ๐ Sep 9 2025 | Trieste ๐ทRegister now: bit.ly/AIVirologyEn


As the collaborating centre of World Organisation for Animal Health, weโre thrilled to launch our 8th annual course on viral bioinformatics & genomics! Welcome speech by MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research director Emma Thomson & head of Bioinformatics Robertson ๐งฌ๐ #bioinformatics #genomics


WOW!! Massive well done Toni and William! ๐ฅณ๐ You can still support their amazing fundraising efforts for Alzheimer's Research UK using this link: justgiving.com/page/ho-wardboโฆ

๐ฆ Influenza's Great Escape New research from Daniel Weir & colleagues reveals that flu viruses use secret tunnelling nanotube-like structures to escape your immune system. Full video: youtu.be/Opfpwy9yUew Read: gla.ac.uk/research/az/cvโฆ Hutchinson Lab UofG Sii UofG MVLS

The Overseas Team will be presenting at the CVR-HZI Collaboration Symposium 2025 today on all things EU funding! MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research #HorizonEurope


Flu virus spreads via tunnelling tubes it induces between cells: tube formation correlates with onset of apoptosis ๐ท Daniel Weir et al Hutchinson Lab lab University of Glasgow in PLOS Pathogens โก๏ธ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025/6โฆ


Our viral #Bioinformatics course has come to an end ๐ MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research This year we welcomed 15 amazing participants from Europe, Asia, Africa & Oceania๐ Huge thanks to everyone who joined โ and to our instructors: Derek Wright Richard Orton Quan Gu Joseph Hughes Sreenu Vattipally Robertson
