Would appreciate if people could help spread the word: Clive McKimmie (VHIT) 🦟🦠🐁 Nic Locker Paola Campagnolo Stephen Griffin Robert Gifford Harris Lab Emilie Pondeville Nerea Irigoyen 👩🏻‍🔬🦠🦟🇪🇺 McLauchlan Lab CVR TheSweeneyLab Chris McCormick Arbovirus Seminars Christine Reitmayer Alphey Lab Tuplin Lab Leeds emmottlab

🚨 Exciting Recruitment Opportunity 🚨 🆕Research Associate position in @UofG_SBOHVM 👉Working with Fredros Okumu @JMatthiopoulos Heather Ferguson 👉Project: Learning to eliminate dominant malaria vectors 📅Closes: 14th February 🔁Please retweet jobs.ac.uk/job/DFJ736/res…

Today MosquitoScotland team members visited SSPCA wildlife rescue centre Scottish SPCA 🐾 to discuss about birds and collaborate on assessing the risk of mosquito-borne disease in Scotland! Thank you for the tour, your work is great!

📢 EVENT | #GlasgowVirologyWorkshop Come along for a day of interesting talks & discussions. Speakers: Clive McKimmie (VHIT) 🦟🦠🐁, @fayewatson94, Lucy Thorne, Aris Katzourakis & Anastasia Komarova 📅 4 June 2024 📍 Sir Charles Wilson Building Info & register: gla.ac.uk/research/az/cv…

MosquitoScotland is #hiring! We are seeking a field research technician to join our team over the summer, which will involve studying #mosquitoes across bonnie Scotland. Details below - please RT and consider applying if of interest ⬇️ Deadline March 21st

Job opening @Biocentis to join as a laboratory technician developing genetic control technologies here in beautiful Terni, Italy 😁

📢We can confirm the mosquito season in Scotland has officially started! First adults were found last week. Below left - a Culex egg raft found in a Glasgow garden, Right - the swimming larvae that hatched from it. These are not harmful to people. Let us know if you see any!

📢 Have you seen a mosquito in Scotland? The MosquitoScotland team want to hear about it! You can report your sighting and submit a photo here ⬇️ mosquito-scotland.com Please help us fill in the mosquito map for Scotland and understand future vector-borne disease risk!

We are hiring a lab technician! Join Francesco Baldini and me if you want to learn how to maintain mosquitoes colonies and do cool infrared spectroscopy experiments. The position is for 3 months, ideally for students finishing their undergrad or master my.corehr.com/pls/uogrecruit…

The importance of stupidity in scientific research

Super true, love the last paragraph!

📢 VACANCY | #BiologicalSafetyManager Manage matters related to biological safety at the CVR. Work with the University Safety and Environmental Protection Service, Health and Safety Executive & other agencies. 📆 Tues 10 Sept Info: bit.ly/CVR-WorkWithUs Ref 153030 Apply: gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/

My commentary on the closure of VectorBase. Join me in rallying for its sustainable continuation. Comment, repost, and circulate. Let’s ensure this vital resource remains accessible for our global #VectorBiology research community.

🚨New preprint🚨 In Daniel Weir's first first-author paper, he shows that tubular structures connect #influenza virus infected cells within the lung. It induces these by driving the infected cell into apoptosis, allowing the virus to spread covertly to new cells 🦠🕵️

Honoured to have received this MRF award in partnership with my collaborator Shehu Awandu MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research UofG Sii JOOUSTonline- JOOUST Official Account Looking fwd for a transformative collaboration to mitigate mosquito-borne diseases 🦟 in Kenya 🇰🇪 in the face of climate change

Congratulations to Jean-Philippe Parvy for winning the MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research /ZEISS Microscopy imaging competition! Mosquitoes do not discriminate 🏳️‍🌈 🦟

🚨🔔 Delighted to see this piece of work from MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research now out in Nature Microbiology! Indeed, it really reflects what multidisciplinary team effort can be. Guess what? Spike of #SARSCoV2 is not just about antigenicity/immune evasion… doi.org/10.1038/s41564…

🦟 Mosquitoes in Scotland as far north as Shetland Citizen Science project, Mosquito Scotland (MosquitoScotland), is exploring the extent of the mosquito population in Scotland. Heather Ferguson Emilie Pondeville Read more: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…