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Sarah Caddy

@drsarahcaddy.bsky.social
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Vet, Viral Immunologist and Assistant Professor at the Baker Institute for Animal Health, Cornell NY. Fascinated by viruses, antibodies and vaccines. www.caddylab.org

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Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
First trip to the Gates foundation. Can’t believe I get to be part of such an amazing team making the next rotavirus vaccine.
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American Society for Virology @amersocvirology.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
The American Society for Virology (ASV) is dedicated to advancing knowledge of viruses and the diseases they cause. ASV does not support the scaling back of the childhood vaccine schedule recently announced by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. See our statement attached.
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Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
This is terrible news for the future of veterinary research. The world class introduction to research I received whilst a vet student at the University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk cannot be replicated elsewhere in the UK www.vettimes.com/news/vets/we...
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University of Cambridge recommends vet school closure
Final cohort would graduate in 2032, as university said it found “no viable long-term solution” for “the sustainable delivery of clinical services”.
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Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
The paradox of maternal antibodies; protection v interference. Our first paper in this fascinating field is out! www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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Mechanisms of maternal antibody interference with rotavirus vaccination | The EMBO Journal
imageimageMaternal antibodies are correlated with a reduced ability of infants to produce antibodies following oral rotavirus vaccination. This interference is attributed in this study primarily to va...
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Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Rotavirus legends at the 15th International Rotavirus symposium! 🥹
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Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
First visit to our collaborators at the inspirational Center for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia! Such a privilege to see where some of the infant samples we study have come from.
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Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Thanks for another brilliant ASV annual meeting @amersocvirology.bsky.social! The Caddy lab had a fabulous time 😍
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The Roslin Institute @roslininstitute.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
A hybrid coronavirus, formed of cat and dog coronaviruses, caused a severe outbreak of disease among cats in Cyprus, researchers found. Their work, in Nature, showed how this new virus was able to cause widespread cases of Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP) among the island’s cats.
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Coronavirus causes fatal disease outbreak in cats | The Roslin Institute | The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies
A harmful strain of coronavirus has caused a fast-spreading outbreak of a harmful feline disease.
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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 02/07/2025
What are the professional and personal benefits of being on our Editorial Boards? Here's what some of our members had to say about their experience. Journal of General Virology is currently recruiting- find out more about the available vacancies at: microb.io/Vacancies.
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Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Huge congratulations to my postdoc mentor - Leo James FRS!
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Julie Pfeiffer @jkpfeiff.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Terry Dermody and I wrote an op-ed about chronic diseases ("Make America Healthy Again"), the role of viral infections, and how virologists can help. www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...
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Terrence S. Dermody and Julie K. Pfeiffer: To tackle chronic disease, turn to the virologists
Despite the United States being a global leader in many areas, Americans are not healthy. Life expectancy is lower than in other industrialized nations,...
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Neeltje van Doremalen @neeltje.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
🚨Job alert 🚨 I am looking for an enthusiastic & talented postdoctoral researcher to join our research team in Hamilton, MT, USA. If you are interested in 🦠 emerging respiratory viruses (BSL2-4), 🔬mucosal immunology, and 🐁 in vivo studies, Check out: www.training.nih.gov/jobs/pdpmire...
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Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Cheers to our 3y reappointment on tenure track - so grateful to be on this journey at #Cornell alongside Assistant Profs Colleen Lau and Andrew Flyak 🤩
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Hensley Lab @scottehensley.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
After 8 months of peer review, our manuscript was published today @nature.com showing that bovine H5N1 viruses bind poorly to human-type sialic acid receptors. We now know that the virus is only 1 HA substitution away from efficiently binding human receptors. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Bovine H5N1 binds poorly to human-type sialic acid receptors - Nature
Nature - Bovine H5N1 binds poorly to human-type sialic acid receptors
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Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
View from my office. What the heck April in Ithaca?! Never imagined I’d be missing spring weather in England…
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Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Fame, Cornell style: news.cornell.edu/stories/2025... ❤️ Baker Institute for Animal Health
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Virologist builds on Baker Institute’s 75-year groundbreaking history | Cornell Chronicle
Dr. Sarah Caddy conducts innovative research on canine viruses at the Baker Institute for Animal Health.
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Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Such a pleasure to visit my inspirational #rotavirus mentor Ulrich Desselberger at home with his wife Elizabeth. I can’t imagine a kinder or wiser virologist.
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Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Fabulous talk on 30,000 year old viruses by @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social at #microbio25. Thanks Charlotte!
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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 01/04/2025
We hope that you’re enjoying Annual Conference! If you have ever benefited from our events, grants or networks, consider publishing with us: journals revenue supports all that we do for our community. Please submit to give back. microb.io/3o6DvhI
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Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Excited to be on a red-eye flight to LHR for @microbiologysociety.org! Travelling without kids is a cinch! microbiologysociety.org/event/annual...
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Annual Conference 2025
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Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Great to hear this rotavirus paper discussed on #TWiV @microbetv.bsky.social. We covered this in a recent lab meeting and agree the graphical abstract is very eye-catching! www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
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Innate immune sensing of rotavirus by intestinal epithelial cells leads to diarrhea
Hou et al. demonstrate in an infant mouse model that innate immune sensing of enteric viruses induces IFN-λ signaling, which downregulates an apical chloride exchanger that leads to increased intestin...
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Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
3/3 abstracts for ASV 2025 accepted in my lab today 🤩 Thanks to the abstract reviewing team! Montreal here we come…
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Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
This conversation with Bill Gates is now several months old, but is highly worth listening to. Great discussion about rotavirus vaccines. #inspiring. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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Bill Gates on vaccines, conspiracy theories and the pleasures of pickleball
Podcast Episode · The Life Scientific · 20/08/2024 · 36m
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Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The maternal antibody paradox: how are these antibodies both good and bad? Excited to share our new insights for rotavirus vaccines www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Mechanisms of maternal antibody interference to rotavirus vaccination
Maternal antibodies (MatAbs) are transferred transplacentally during pregnancy and through breast milk after birth to provide protection whilst the neonatal immune response is immature. However, MatAb...
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Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Glad to have played a small part in this big story! Studying the differences between CD28 in humans and mice reveal reasons for the disastrous 2006 trial www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Just a casual Wednesday afternoon with my 4y old in Upstate New York #brightside.
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Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
We are looking for new colleagues! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29722 I can’t recommend the Microbiology and Immunology Department at Cornell Ithaca highly enough.
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Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Glad to be spending the day at SUNY Upstate talking about wierd and wonderful antibodies. Syracuse really feels like a metropolis after Ithaca!
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Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Yes it’s cold, but we love Ithaca! Taughannock Falls were incredible yesterday.
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Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Christmas lab celebrations from 2024 compared to 2023! Wonderful to have new faces of all ages!!
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Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
The tiny Caddy lab Christmas tree. Got to encourage creativity in the lab👏 Please share your lab decorations!
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Jesse Erasmus @jesseerasmus.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Couldn’t find a virology starter pack so here’s one to get the ball rolling. Repost/reply if you are a virologist so I can find and add you to the list! go.bsky.app/SinqoJU
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Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I'm new to the concept of #labsgiving (labs celebrating thanksgiving together), but I'm glad to learn! Here is the Caddy lab + friends making dumplings - thanks to our fabulous grad student Serena for hosting 😊.
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Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Glad to have found Bluesky! News from the Baker Institute in Ithaca NY is that it is officially winter today...
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