Sloan Lab @richardsloanlab.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Congratulations @nellymak.bsky.social! So proud. Glad your postdoc lab is treating you well. 070
Reposted by Sloan LabEdinburgh Infectious Diseases @uoe-eid.bsky.social · 28/01/2025💭Check our brand new Research Focus - featuring publications from across the Edinburgh Infectious Diseases network! @pfvale.bsky.social @richardsloanlab.bsky.social @dbogaert.bsky.social @fionagreco.bsky.social Full article here ➡️ edinburgh-infectious-diseases.ed.ac.uk/news-and-eve... 077
Sloan Lab @richardsloanlab.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Just a reminder to apply for this PhD project in our lab @edinuni-irr.bsky.social using a mix of CRISPR screening and computational approaches to find antiviral factors. Deadline Monday 13th January. Fully funded and international applicants accepted. Please share! @uoe-eid.bsky.social 031
Reposted by Sloan LabNelly Mak @nellymak.bsky.social · 29/12/2024My first first-author paper is out! If you are curious about how alternative splicing fine-tunes the antiviral specificity of IFITMs in horseshoe bats, make this the last paper you will read in 2024⬇️ 0187
Sloan Lab @richardsloanlab.bsky.social · 28/12/2024Our lab's latest paper published in PLoS Pathogens! Looking at functional diversity of antiviral IFITMs in horseshoe bats doi.org/10.1371/jour... Led by PhD student @nellymak.bsky.social in collaboration with @batresearch.bsky.social @uoe-eid.bsky.social @edinuni-irr.bsky.social #Immunosky #Viroskydoi.orgAlternative splicing expands the antiviral IFITM repertoire in Chinese rufous horseshoe batsAuthor summary Zoonotic transmission occurs when viruses ‘jump’ from animals into human. This may lead to viral outbreaks such as the COVID-19 pandemic, posing a significant threat to public health. B... 1187
Sloan Lab @richardsloanlab.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Second fully funded PhD in our lab! @edinuni-irr.bsky.social Interested in how endogenous retroelements shape bat immune responses? Fully funded PhD with some teaching in China. Excellent supervisors include @batresearch.bsky.social biomedical-sciences.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate... #ViroSky #Immunoskybiomedical-sciences.ed.ac.ukFully funded 4 Year PhD studentships in Biomedical SciencesApplications are invited from outstanding students wishing to pursue a 4 Year PhD studentship in Biomedical Sciences from September 2025. 044
Sloan Lab @richardsloanlab.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Awesome opportunity to do a PhD in a building filled top to bottom with outstanding virologists, all in sunny Glasgow. What's not to love? Strong recommend... 052
Reposted by Sloan LabJaime Garcia Iglesias @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Give a follow to the amazing @uoe-eid.bsky.social community which brings together virologists, scientists, and social scientists talking about viruses! #MedSky #IDSky #MedID #PublicHealth #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter 072
Sloan Lab @richardsloanlab.bsky.social · 15/11/2024PhD opportunity in our lab at Edinburgh University! Analysing CRISPR screens for proviral and antiviral factors focusing on coronaviruses and influenza A virus. Using a mix of wet lab and computational approaches (full training provided). #ViroSky #ImmunoSky usher.ed.ac.uk/precision-me...usher.ed.ac.ukMeta-analysis of genome wide functional screens to identify broad-spectrum antiviral and immuno-therapeutic targetsPrecision Medicine Project - Meta-analysis of genome wide functional screens to identify broad-spectrum antiviral and immuno-therapeutic targets 01918
Sloan Lab @richardsloanlab.bsky.social · 06/12/2023New lab preprint! Understanding innate immunity in bats is important given their role in viral spillovers and with their unusual immune systems. Here we study antiviral IFITM genes in horseshoe bats and find alternative splicing is key to functional antiviral diversity: doi.org/10.1101/2023... 0147
Sloan Lab @richardsloanlab.bsky.social · 27/10/2023Our review on the Lv2/RPRD2 restriction of HIV is finally published in mBio! Led by talented postdoc Kathryn Jackson-Jones who took on the task of summarising a couple of decades of molecular virology by co-author Aine McKnight doi.org/10.1128/mbio... 1/n 100
Reposted by Sloan LabCaro Goujon @carogoujon.bsky.social · 16/10/2023We are looking for 2 postdocs (a molecular virologist and a bioinfomatician with wet lab experience) to work on our ERC-funded InVIRium project! We're based in Montpellier, France and we aim to better characterize respiratory virus replication in pertinent models of primary airway epithelia. 136
Sloan Lab @richardsloanlab.bsky.social · 11/10/2023Excellent PhD opportunity to study how species resist viral infection using bioinformatics, virology, and animal models at Edinburgh Uni. Led by Rob Young at the Usher Institute, virology with me, and animal models with Elly Gaunt at Roslin: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #ViroSky #ImmunoSky 075