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Shivkumar Lab @shivkumarlab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A fantastic day for the lab at @dmu.ac.uk's Research and Innovation Showcase last week! 🎉 Congratulations to MRes student Grace Lee for winning the Best Poster at the DMU PGR Poster Competition. Grace has done an amazing job over the past year, and it was wonderful to see her work recognised!

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Shivkumar Lab @shivkumarlab.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Really proud of the lab for getting out there and presenting our research at various conferences over the past few weeks! It's been a busy conference season! 👩‍🔬 🧑‍🔬 @dmu.ac.uk Brandon Moulds presented work on sustainable disinfection of norovirus @hisinfection.bsky.social #HISCON26 in London... [1/3]

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Shivkumar Lab @shivkumarlab.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

And that's a wrap! Our final LIPHI Postdoc & PGR Club of this year ended with an Innovation Sandpit session. We discussed how to approach grant writing and students pitched projects to address themes set by the UKRI Challenge Fund. Thanks to co-chairs @harinii.bsky.social & Katie Hussain @dmu.ac.uk

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Shivkumar Lab @shivkumarlab.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

LIPHI Postdoc & PGR Club Poster Competition in May for our PhD and MRes students to practice their scientific presentation skills. 🏆 Congratulations to Winner Harini Satkunarasa, Runner-Up Madihah Ahmed, and People's Choice Award winner Grace Lee! Thanks to judges and all participants! @dmu.ac.uk

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Shivkumar Lab @shivkumarlab.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

📢 3 weeks till the deadline! Funded #PhD studentship (UK Home students) for a multidisciplinary project on the disinfection of wastewater. Apply here: tinyurl.com/28he6ztp

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Shivkumar Lab @shivkumarlab.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

📢 Funded #PhD studentship (UK Home students) for a multidisciplinary project on the disinfection of wastewater using novel technologies. Collaboration with environmental engineering firm Hazen & Sawyer, covering microbiology, virology, chemistry. Apply here: tinyurl.com/28he6ztp @dmu.ac.uk

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Shivkumar Lab @shivkumarlab.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Our April LIPHI Postdoc & PGR Club was an 'Ask a Pro!' session, where our panel of academics and researchers answered questions all about navigating research and careers. Thanks to the co-chairs and panel members for their insights! 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 @dmu.ac.uk

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Shivkumar Lab @shivkumarlab.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

We're so excited to be at the @isaricar.bsky.social Antiviral Conference in Prague this week! Drop by our posters 206 and 212 to talk to us about our work on natural product-derived and host-targeting antivirals! #ICAR2026 @dmu.ac.uk

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Shivkumar Lab @shivkumarlab.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Lovely visit to Belfast last week for the @microbiologysociety.org Annual Conference. Well done to Gemma Cooper who debuted our recent work on pan-coronavirus antivirals. And fantastic to see such strong representation by the @dmu.ac.uk researchers and PhD students! #Microbio26

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Shivkumar Lab @shivkumarlab.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Our outreach activity Escape Lab went travelling to a Leicester primary school this week, and we had a blast with the Year 5s trying to find our antiviral drug. Some lovely feedback from the school, thanks to the team for supporting the students and making the session such a success! @dmu.ac.uk

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Shivkumar Lab @shivkumarlab.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Our February @dmu.ac.uk LIPHI PGR & Postdoc Club was all about careers post-PhD. Thanks to Dr Samuel Watkin and Dr Stewart Sale for sharing their experiences and career journeys, and offering some great advice - to find the thing you really enjoy doing, and that that best careers are rarely linear!

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Shivkumar Lab @shivkumarlab.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Check out this report by Jessica Harris about her @amiposts.bsky.social Summer Studentship in our lab: www.the-microbiologist.com/careers/summ... Jess worked with postdoc Gemma Cooper to investigate the synergistic activities of natural product compounds against coronaviruses.

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Summer Studentship: novel antivirals and host-virus interactions

Jessica Harris reports back on her Summer Studentship at De Montfort University, and her research into how plant-derived compounds affect viruses, and whether combining these antivirals might increase...

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Shivkumar Lab @shivkumarlab.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

It was an absolute pleasure to host Dr Leah Goulding at our @dmu.ac.uk LIPHI seminar series last week. Thanks for an engaging talk about antivirals against influenza viruses, made very accessible to our diverse multidisciplinary audience!

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Shivkumar Lab @shivkumarlab.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Applications are now open for a paid Virology Research Assistant Frontrunner Internship to support on-going research in our lab! 🧑‍🔬 @dmu.ac.uk undergraduates in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences can apply! 📅 Deadline is 2 March 2026 🔗 Apply on MyGateway: my-gateway.dmu.ac.uk/user/app/job...

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Shivkumar Lab @shivkumarlab.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Our January LIPHI PGR & Postdoc Club featured a workshop on presenting to different audiences. We tackled the challenging task of distilling our research into just three sentences, and also how to present to a 5-year old! Well done to everyone for making it such an engaging session! @dmu.ac.uk

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Shivkumar Lab @shivkumarlab.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Our December LIPHI PGR & Postdoc Club seminar saw two chalk talks by PhD students Yao Li, talking about co-crystallisation, and Valentine Okonkwo, on design of experiment. And of course, featured some festive mince pies! Join us for the next meeting in January! @dmu.ac.uk

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Shivkumar Lab @shivkumarlab.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Delighted to have been awarded the New Research Supervisor of the Year at the @dmu.ac.uk Doctoral College Showcase. Building my research programme and supervising students is one of the most rewarding parts of my role, and I'm so grateful to have an enthusiastic and supportive team to work with!

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Shivkumar Lab @shivkumarlab.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Our LIPHI PGR & Postdoc Club seminars have restarted, with postdoc Gemma giving a useful Insider Guide to Postgraduate Research. Thanks Gemma & Brandon for organising the PGR Club for the last few years, welcome our new PhD chairs Harini & Katie! @dmu.ac.uk

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Shivkumar Lab @shivkumarlab.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Earlier this year we took our Escape Lab outreach activity on the road, funded by @microbiologysociety.org & @biochemsoc.bsky.social Outreach Grants. We had a blast teaching kids about viruses & the drug discovery process. Check out how Microbiology Society's Adam & Clare got on with Escape Lab!

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 23/09/2025

Like Escape rooms? 🧐 What about Escape LABS! 🥳 Microbiology Society staff, Adam and Clare, travelled to De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, to take on an interactive lab-themed activity. @shivkumarlab.bsky.social Watch the video here: microb.io/4mbADZa

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Shivkumar Lab @shivkumarlab.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Such a pleasure to host Dr Petra Mlcochova at our Leicester Institute of Pharmaceutical Health Innovations PGR and Postdoc Club last week. Petra gave a brilliant talk on her career and move from academia to industry. Great advice for our students exploring a future in biotech!

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Shivkumar Lab @shivkumarlab.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Huge congratulations to the newly-minted Dr Gemma Cooper for completing her PhD viva yesterday! It has been a pleasure to supervise Gemma and see her grow from strength to strength! Thanks to our collaborators Tim Snape, Parvez Haris, Nigel Temperton, examiners Efstathios Giotis, Ray Allan. #proudPI

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Shivkumar Lab @shivkumarlab.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

We had our first Health and Life Sciences Early Career Researcher #ECR Showcase today, starting with an inspiring keynote by Dr Rachel Bolton-King, who gave us a tour of her career to date, and leaving us with some great advice on embracing opportunities.

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Shivkumar Lab @shivkumarlab.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Well done Gemma Cooper and Abdelrhman Moustafa for presenting their PhD research at the Applied Microbiology International ECS conference yesterday! We enjoyed the diversity in microbiology projects, and the super encouraging panel discussion on careers.

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Nir Drayman @nirdrayman.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Our department is looking to hire an Associate/Full Professor in the field of Virology. Please share and apply if you are intersted. Also happy to answer any questions recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09552

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Associate/ Full Professor of Virology in Molecular Biology & Biochemistry

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

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Shivkumar Lab @shivkumarlab.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

We're in Liverpool this week for the @microbiologysociety.org Annual Conference. Excited to present our work and meet people, do come and say hi if you're there! 👩‍🔬 👨‍🔬 #Microbio25

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Shivkumar Lab @shivkumarlab.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Well done to our #Virology Lab Assistant Frontrunner Interns - Jess Harris and Grace Lee - who had their last day in the lab last week! Thanks to DMU Internships for supporting and funding this scheme.

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Shivkumar Lab @shivkumarlab.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

It's #BritishScienceWeek2025 and we are having a busy week taking our Escape Lab: A Journey into Drug Discovery #outreach activity to various venues. Thanks to the @biochemsoc.bsky.social and @microbiologysociety.org for scientific outreach grants for these activities!

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Shivkumar Lab @shivkumarlab.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Embracing the New Year, New Me sentiment by (finally) joining Bluesky. We are a virology lab at the Leicester School of Pharmacy, De Montfort University, UK. Interested in antiviral drug development and infection control strategies.

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