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New paper out! 🚨 We show that vampire bats use amino acids from a recent blood meal to fuel RUNNING - a rare mode of locomotion in bats ideal for stalking prey. I’d worry less about your neck and more about your ankles! 🧛🏻‍♂️ The Welch Lab Royal Society Publishing royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Designed miniproteins potently inhibit and protect against MERS-CoV biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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CDC is strengthening its #H5N1 #birdflu prevention recommendations to better protect workers in poultry and dairy operations. This includes updated PPE guidance and enhanced outreach and education efforts for farm workers and employers. bit.ly/4hFMn56

Our new paper is out at The Lancet Infectious Diseases! Here, we have characterized a SARS-CoV-2 XEC variant. thelancet.com/journals/lanin…

Starting to see a lot of familiar #cryoEM faces in the blue place now! Would be great to see more of the #virology community posting there! 👀

The International Conference Pandemic Preparedness has started! 3 days of discussions on prevention, surveillance, detection, treatment, and cooperation, to find response strategies for future potential pandemic outbreaks. #prpconference2024

“We’re very excited to see what people do with this” AlphaFold3 is open at last go.nature.com/4fHAfio

Our new preprint is out: we solved the structures of HIV-1 matrix (MA) from intact virions by SPA. The structure led us to a surprising discovery resolving a long mystery in HIV-1 biology – peptide SP2 regulates the maturation of the HIV-1 matrix. 🧵1/x tinyurl.com/c7szhtfa

Congratulations to lab alumnus Ethan Morgan on winning the ECR prize at IPVS - International Papillomavirus Society conference. Well deserved award!!

Congratulations to the team Stephen Rettie, David Juergens, Victor Tolulope Adebomi , *RFpeptides* is really cool method for all peptide chemists! Accurate de novo design of high-affinity protein binding macrocycles using deep learning biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I’ve updated SARSCoV2 antibody-escape calculator w new deep mutational scanning data of Yunlong Richard Cao Fanchong Jian My interpretation: antigenic evolution currently constrained by pleiotropic effects of mutations on RBD-ACE2 affinity, RBD up-down position & antibody neutralization

Our magnus opus on #coronavirus host range is ready. Seriously hard work from PDRA Giulia Gallo in Viral Glycoproteins Group, TPI. Come see how we use algorithmic-led sequence selection to characterise genus-wide phenotypic diversity! Backing that up with Stephen Graham's Lab biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The wonderful work leading up to a possible solution of a big health threats for elephants 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Utrecht Virology Lab uu.nl/en/news/new-va…

Apply now for EMBO|FEBS Lecture Course on Physical Virology: across length scales 01 – 06 June 2025 in Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain 📜 Registration and abstract submission deadline: 15 February 2025 meetings.embo.org/event/25-physi… #EMBOPhysicalVirology

Postdoctoral Researcher in Structural Virology - Working at Utrecht University - Utrecht University uu.nl/en/organisatio…

I’m looking for a postdoc to join my team under a recently funded ERC Starting Grant. If you’re passionate about structural #virology and have experience in #cryoEM SPA and/or #cryoET, get in touch! Deadline: January 19th. Please share 🙏 tiny.cc/7v33001

I’m delighted that we could contribute the #cryoEM data to this incredible antiviral discovery project from the group of Johan Neyts 💊 Published today in Nature: nature.com/articles/s4158… A huge congrats to everyone involved! 🎉

Proud to be one of the authors of the highest-resolution SARS-CoV-2 #cryoEM entry on EMDB 😄 This came out of a fun collaboration with Bicycle Therapeutics, where we used cryo-EM to validate binding of their biparatopic (EMD-51660) and homotrimeric (EMD-51659) Bicycle molecules🔬