News/Events

Sep 22 – Carlos explaining to the Spanish newspaper El Pais why the current monkeypox outbreak remains an international concern

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Sep 22 – Our new Research Assistants Ailish Ellis and Telma Sancheira Freitas have joined the lab. Welcome!

Aug 22 – We welcome Dr Lucy Eke in the lab. Great things ahead!

Aug 22 – Carlos giving his view on current monkeypox vaccine at The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/15/smallpox-vaccines-protect-monkeypox-hiv-erode

Jul 22 – New publication in collaboration with KNUST in Ghana

A new publication in collaboration with Prof Mohamed Mutocheluh from the Department of Clinical Microbiology at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana is published in the Journal of Immunological Research showing the mechanism of...

Jul 22 – Farewell to our Erasmus student Sandra! Great to have had you around for a few months and good luck for the future!

May 22 – Carlos explaining the situation with the new monkeypox cases in the main Spanish newspaper

https://elpais.com/sociedad/2022-05-19/espana-prepara-la-compra-de-miles-de-vacunas-frente-a-la-viruela-tradicional-para-hacer-frente-al-brote-del-virus-del-mono.html (all in Spanish)...

May 22 – New paper on immune sensing of poxviruses spearheaded by Ali. Well done, mate!

Disruption of the cGAS/STING axis does not impair sensing of MVA in BHK21 cells – AJM Hood, RP Sumner, C Maluquer de Motes Check the paper in here https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jgv/10.1099/jgv.0.001755#tab2...

Sep 21 – Check out our review on the many interactions that poxviruses establish with the host ubiquitin system.

Congratulations to Sian for the work. Paper available here.

Sep 21 – Congratulations to Joe and the team for a new paper on Journal of Virology!

Work spearheaded by Joe Holley has been published at the Journal of Virology (link). The paper iluminates the mechanisms used by poxviruses to regulate the production of the two well-known infectious virion forms, which correlates with the mode of transmission they...