Last week I handed in my thesis, and this week I started my first post-doc! What a start to 2022! ✨ #phdchat #phdlife #thesis

That marks the end of my first #NSV2022 meeting! What a fantastic conference, inclusive community and beautiful venue!!! ☀️🦠 Barr Lab

Can you image anywhere more perfect for the #NSV2022 gala dinner?! 😍😍 Dancing to Queen in a palace, my kinda night! Amelia Shaw Barr Lab

Had an incredible time at the #NSV2022 conference in Braga, Portugal! Lots of science 🦠👩‍🔬 and fun 🤩! Can we do it again next year please? 🙏 Barr Lab Dr Hayley Pearson #Portugal #bunyaviruses

Fantastic posters presented by Amelia Shaw and Dr Hayley Pearson at #NSV2022 in #Braga, #Portugal! Thanks to everyone who came to discuss their work on #Bunyaviruses 🦠👩🏼‍🔬 #LoveVirology #AcademicTwitter #postdocs @ScienceLeeds

Team Barr, Fontana and Stacey feeling artsy at #Bunya2022 in beautiful #Cambridge 🦠 FontanaLab

‘Prime’ spot to chat about potassium 🦠 Fantastic poster presentations by Team Barr-Fontana-Stacey at #Bunya2022 FontanaLab

Congratulations and well done to the Barr Lab’s most recent PhD graduate, Dr Pearson! We hope that Dr Hayley Pearson and all the other graduates at FBS Research Facilities University of Leeds had a wonderful day 🎓🦠🔬 #PhDone ✅

What a wonderful way to mark the end of my #PhD 💚🦠🎓 #graduation #UniversityofLeeds

Great work as always Owen, can’t wait to see what you do next! 🔬🦠👨🏼‍🔬

Howdy y’all! Come by poster P3-16 tonight to chat to Ellie about all things #reassortment and how we can mathematically model #coinfection of #Bunyaviruses #ASV2023 Ellie Todd

Looking for a research tech position in virology? We have a position at the Uni of Leeds working on bunyaviruses with FontanaLab, Barr Lab, George Heath and Sammy Hover. Deadline 14th July. Juan is happy to have an informal chat with anyone interested. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

Out today!! Our latest research describing a novel role for K+ ions as a third essential requirement for #arenavirus entry! Check out the paper here biorxiv.org/content/10.110… or come along to see Amelia Shaw talk at #ASV2023 tomorrow afternoon (W59-4)! 🦠

Hey #ASV2023 be sure to check out this fantastic talk by our PhD student Owen who is presenting the first report of a #bunyavirus utilising tunnelling nanotube-like structures to spread! Pretty STED images incoming 🦠🔬 W59-3, today (Tues) @ 2pm, Athena AB

Be sure to see our post-doc Amelia Shaw discuss her exciting research on how #arenaviruses utilise potassium for uncoating during entry and the potential to repurpose channel inhibitors for a pan-#bunyavirus antiviral 🦠 W59-4, today (Tues) @ 2:15pm, Athena AB #ASV2023

We also have lots more interesting Barr group research on display this afternoon (Tues) from 5pm! Come chat to our post-doc Dr Hayley Pearson (P37-29) about #BUNV entry and our research tech Cherrie (P39-13) about rescuing #UUKV 🦠 #bunyaviruses #ASV2023

New publication from our group! Our paper on the use of TNT-like connections for cell-cell spread during #arenavirus infection has been published in Scientific Reports. Have a read! nature.com/articles/s4159…

Calling all penultimate year students! Come and work with me this summer on an exciting #virology project at University of Leeds, applications close in 2 weeks! 🦠 Uni Leeds Students biologicalsciences.leeds.ac.uk/research-innov…

Congratulations all, some gorgeous STED images!