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Richard Sloan Lab. Viruses and Innate Immunity. Edinburgh University and ZJE Institute, China. inflammation-research.ed.ac.uk/rese…

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Sloan Lab @richardsloanlab.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Congratulations @nellymak.bsky.social! So proud. Glad your postdoc lab is treating you well.
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Edinburgh 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...
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Sloan Lab @richardsloanlab.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Just 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
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Nelly Mak @nellymak.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
My 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⬇️
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Sloan Lab @richardsloanlab.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Our 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 #Virosky
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Alternative splicing expands the antiviral IFITM repertoire in Chinese rufous horseshoe bats
Author 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...
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Sloan Lab @richardsloanlab.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Second 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 #Immunosky
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Fully funded 4 Year PhD studentships in Biomedical Sciences
Applications are invited from outstanding students wishing to pursue a 4 Year PhD studentship in Biomedical Sciences from September 2025.
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Sloan Lab @richardsloanlab.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Awesome 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...
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Jaime Garcia Iglesias @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Give 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
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Sloan Lab @richardsloanlab.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
PhD 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...
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Meta-analysis of genome wide functional screens to identify broad-spectrum antiviral and immuno-therapeutic targets
Precision Medicine Project - Meta-analysis of genome wide functional screens to identify broad-spectrum antiviral and immuno-therapeutic targets
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Sloan Lab @richardsloanlab.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
New 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...
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Sloan Lab @richardsloanlab.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Our 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
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Caro Goujon @carogoujon.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
We 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.
This is the job description, which can also be found on Euraxess: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/120426View of the Mediterranean see near Montpellier
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Sloan Lab @richardsloanlab.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
Excellent 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
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