If you’ve performed CPR on someone or witnessed someone receiving CPR. We’re here for you. With Scottish Ambulance & Resus Edinburgh we’re launching a pilot service, funded by Scottish Government, to support those who witness or provide CPR at home or in the community.🔗chss.org.uk/provided-cpr

The Flaviviridae UK meeting has a new Twitter account! Follow us for updates on registration and our next conference (17-20 May 2024). Join us this year for the excellent science, supportive community and beautiful scenery. @GroveLab @MaringerLab

🦟 NEW PAPER ALERT! In our most recent work rdcu.be/dxdKZ, we zoomed in on the mosquito midgut epithelium, and found a hub of activity in cellular dynamics! 🔄Here are some of our insights:

📢Attentions aspiring Research Leaders in Africa - the next round of Medical Research Council #African Research Leaders Award is now open; with a submission deadline of April 24th. Up to £750,000 over 5 years to establish a research programme at an African Institution ukri.org/opportunity/af…

🚨Never too early for a #tickcheck if you or your pets our out in nature 🚨 It seems they are active already this year #tick #awareness 🕷️ 🧍‍♀️ 🐶 this little critter was found today (25/02/24)!! 📸 .Dr Steph Rainey

NEW | PhD Studentship with MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (@GroveLab) & The Pirbright Institute (@MaringerLab) Using machine learning to identify the molecular determinants of vector-born transmission in viruses. 📆 Start date: Oct 24 ⏰ Duration: 3.5 yrs 📢 Closing date: 2 Apr 24 gla.ac.uk/media/Media_10…

Really excited to share my first first-author virology paper and it’s a big one! Check out our preprint biorxiv.org/content/10.110… where we present a key evolutionary process that allows the transmission of vector-borne bunyaviruses between arthropod and vertebrate hosts.

Mosquitoes are coming… Good write up in Guardian today on new analysis that suggests >4 billion to be at risk of mosquito borne infections in coming decades. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Only last month we celebrated inauguration of Dr Ghassan Abu Sitta as University of Glasgow Rector. Now he's being prevented from entering other European countries to speak on situation in Palestine. David Cameron you must speak out on our citizens & #TeamUofG being treated this way.

This is the end of the world as we know it, if this is reproducible! The new era of functional modeling has begun. I took a transcription factor with an unknown structure and folded it with its recognition sequence embedded in longer DNA. AlphaFold3 accurately positioned the

I can’t recommend this enough. Apply for this PhD program for working with Giuditta De Lorenzo in Trieste, Italy. You won’t regret it! ⬇️

Happy to share that my new paper is out in MDPI mdpi.com/1999-4915/16/8… In this paper we demonstrate that negative sense RNA virus Bunyamwera has a negative impact on Wolbachia density in Ae. aegypti mosquitoes. Thanks to everyone involved, especially Dr Steph Rainey!

📢 Our team is seeking an experienced and motivated researcher to join an MRC funded project on mitochondrial biology in Plasmodium shared between Glasgow and Cambridge. Go hear: gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/ Search our vacancies -> Search by Vacancy Reference 154710 Come join us!

My youngest is a magnet for ticks so helping him understand what to look for is really important. As for the oldest, never had a tick, but he did lend his beautiful voice to this amazing animation 🥰. Such an amazing example of engagement done right

Do you want to become a virologist? The MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research 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! findaphd.com/phds/program/t…

We are delighted to announce that Professor Emma Thomson Emma Thomson has been appointed as the new Director of the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research! 🔬🦠 UK Research and Innovation Medical Research Council Read more➡️ gla.ac/455EjH0

🎉 Massive congratulations to the Sinkins' Group for being shortlisted for a #PrixGalien UK Award for their groundbreaking Wolbachia-based #dengue virus control strategy! 👏 gla.ac.uk/research/az/cv… The Galien Foundation UofG MVLS UofG Sii

Very happy to share this news. It means a lot after a hard few years with mat leave, COVID and everything else life throws at you. Finally feel like I have my mojo back!

📣Come work with us! We are looking for a Research Assistant/Associate in Data Analysis, for Pfizer Inc.-funded research project focused on effectiveness of maternal #RSV vaccination in infants in Scotland. More: bit.ly/3Va7yCd Enq to: Louisa Pollock Closing: 17 Sept 25