CVR Bioinformatics

We’re hosting the @cvrinfo.bsky.social coffee morning 🍰🍩, celebrating the Lunar New Year 🧧🐎 #YearOfTheHorse

We’re excited to announce our 9th Introduction to Viral #Bioinformatics course, starting 15 June 2026! 🧬
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Course information👉 tinyurl.com/yc8285zd

We are ready for @cvrinfo.bsky.social Xmas party🎄🎭

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On the twelfth day of Christmas, a virus gave to me…

Avian-origin influenza A viruses tolerate elevated pyrexic temperatures in mammals Host body temperature can define a virus’s replicative profile—influenza A viruses (IAVs) adapted to 40° to 42°C in birds are less temperature sensitive in vitro compared with human isolates adapted t...

How does fever work?

Our new Science paper shows how elevated body temperature can protect against severe influenza and that avian-origin viruses escape this defence.

This is likely one reason why bird flus and some pandemic influenzas can be so severe.🧵

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We are at our future planning meeting with Genomics team at main campus of University 🏰 @cvrbioinfo.bsky.social

🚨 New Web Resource Alert! 🚨 We're delighted to share Viro3D a database of >85000 viral protein structure predictions from >4400 human & animal viruses.

🔗 viro3d.cvr.gla.ac.uk
📄 www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

@molsystbiol.org @cvrinfo.bsky.social @uofgmvls.bsky.social #Virology #AlphaFold 🧪 🦠

📣Come work with us!

Looking for a Research Assistant/Associate in Data Analysis, for a Pfizer-funded research project focused on effectiveness of maternal #RSV vaccination in infants in Scotland.

More: bit.ly/3Va7yCd
Enq to: @louisapollock.bsky.social
Closing: 17 Sept 25

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Today we are showcasing our Lego based DNA sequencer at @cvrinfo.bsky.social summer party. ☀️⛱️

Today we have been at the Glasgow Science Centre showcasing our new Lego based DNA sequencer: GO-Seq, to learn about respiratory viruses, their DNA and sequencing. @cvrinfo.bsky.social @glasgowscience.bsky.social

Multi-omics analysis of SFTS virus infection in Rhipicephalus microplus cells reveals antiviral tick factors - Nature Communications Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Virus (SFTSV) is a deadly tick-borne virus and a growing global health threat. In this study, Petit et al. used a multi-omics approach on SFTSV-infected tick cells to study its impact and reveal host antiviral responses and key restriction factors.

SFTSV is a deadly tick-borne virus. In this study, Petit et al. used a multi-omics approach to reveal antiviral responses in SFTSV-infected tick cells

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Are you doing a PhD or research Masters in Virology? Want to be part of a community of like-minded researchers from across the UK and Ireland?

We're excited to announce the first annual conference run by and for postgraduate research students in Virology. Please sign up, and please spread the word!

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📢 EVENT | 27th Glasgow Virology Workshop

Join us for a day of interesting talks & discussions.

Speakers: Adam Bailey, Louis Lambrechts, Kirsty Roy, Judy Breuer, Sheila Graham, Juan Reguera & a selection of students.

📆 Fri 5th Sept 2025
🔗 Register: gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

man presents to an audience in a conference room. The projected slide reads “Anatomical origin of exhaled SARS-CoV-2 within the respiratory tract” and features a colourful virus illustration. Attendees are seated and focused on the presentation.

A group of people sits around a long table in a dimly lit restaurant. The table is filled with drinks. The setting features wooden wall panels and modern hanging light fixtures.

A group of people sits in a conference room with large windows, participating in a discussion. Attendees are taking notes or using laptops.

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Last week we welcomed colleagues from ‪@helmholtzhzi.bsky.social‬ Centre for Infection Research & other project partners for our CVR-HZI Collaborative Development Fund Symposium.

We heard about exciting research projects and discussed new opportunities to further our collaborations.

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Our viral #Bioinformatics course has come to an end 🎉 @cvrinfo.bsky.social
This year we welcomed 15 amazing participants from Europe, Asia, Africa & Oceania🌍
Huge thanks to everyone who joined — and to our instructors!

Had a delicious #VGB2025 course dinner at Ka Pao 🍽️😋
At another buffet-style social, @quangu.bsky.social welcomed everyone with a traditional Scottish folk song 🎤

As the collaborating centre of @woahglobal.bsky.social , we’re thrilled to launch our 8th annual course on viral bioinformatics & genomics! Welcome speech by @cvrinfo.bsky.social director @emcat1.bsky.social & head of Bioinformatics @davidlrobertson.bsky.social 🧬📊 #bioinformatics #genomics

Multi-omics analysis of SFTS virus infection in Rhipicephalus microplus cells reveals antiviral tick factors - Nature Communications Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Virus (SFTSV) is a deadly tick-borne virus and a growing global health threat. In this study, Petit et al. used a multi-omics approach on SFTSV-infected tic...

OMG! I can finally share my joy to see my SFTSV work published in @natcomms.nature.com! This adventure started by the award of my MSCA grant and my move to the Kohl and @brennanlab.bsky.social at @cvrinfo.bsky.social. Let's chat about how we discovered novel tick anti-viral effectors!

Variable rates of SARS-CoV-2 evolution in chronic infections Author summary Novel SARS-CoV-2 variants such as Alpha and Omicron were characterised by the presence of multiple genetic changes not found in other SARS-CoV-2 viruses at the time. One hypothesis is t...

Read the paper: journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

Research led by Ewan Smith in the Illingworth Lab (@chrisillingworth.bsky.social).
Collaborations: @cambridgeup.bsky.social
Funding: @ukri.org @wellcometrust.bsky.social

The recency and geographical origins of the bat viruses ancestral to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 Recombination-aware evolutionary analyses of the entire genomes of SARS-CoV-1-like and SARS-CoV-2-like viruses indicate that SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 descend from bat coronaviruses that circulated as...

📄 NEW | Genetic Study shows that Wildlife Trade sparked COVID-19 Virus Emergence in Humans

SARS-CoV-2 arrived in Wuhan too quickly for bat hosts to have carried it there.

cell.com/cell/fulltex...

gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

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📢 You have until Friday 30th May to submit an abstract to present at this year's #GlasgowVirologyWorkshop!

We'd love to hear from delegates of all backgrounds and career stages.

Send a PDF with your abstract (200 words max), name, email and affiliation to cvr-gvw@glasgow.ac.uk.

Members of the CVR's Bioinformatics Team (@cvrbioinfo.bsky.social) attended this year's International Virus Bioinformatics Meeting (ViBioM) in Lisbon.

Postdocs Kieran Lamb and Fran Young and students Rubayet Alam and Robert Strange presented interesting posters.

evbc.uni-jena.de/events/vibio...

The UK Pandemic Sciences Network meeting & One Health Computational Network meeting 👍@cvrinfo.bsky.social @ukri.org @uofglasgow.bsky.social

UK Pandemic Sciences Network Conference 2025 The UKPSN meeting at University of Glasgow will explore pandemic preparedness, surveillance, innovation, response, and global collaboration.

📅 DEADLINE EXTENDED | UK Pandemic Sciences Network & One Health Computational Network

Register for the event before Tues 8th April.

Don't miss out this incredible opportunity to take part in these important events.

UKPSN: ukpsn2025.eventbrite.co.uk
OHCN: ohcn2025.eventbrite.co.uk

Congratulations Dan! 🎉

Dan Liu's thesis focuses on leveraging pre-trained protein language models to predict virus-host associations and training large language models to predicted protein-protein interactions within and across species.

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🌍 We recently visited Nairobi & Kilifi for a partnership meeting hosted by the Kenya Medical Research Institute Centre for Virus Research & Wellcome Trust Research Programme.

Together we aim to drive impactful research to tackle viral threats & improve global health.

gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

📢 New paper in @naturecomms.bsky.social

Check out Emma's thread below ⬇️

We hope everyone attending @microbiologysociety.org's conference this week has a brilliant time! 🦠

Dan from The Robertson Lab has just passed her viva! Congratulations 🥂 🎉 @cvrinfo.bsky.social @davidlrobertson.bsky.social

A promotional banner for the One Health Computational Network Symposium 2025. On the left, a blue background contains white text reading "One Health Computational Network Symposium 2025" alongside the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) logo. On the right, a researcher wearing a lab coat, gloves, a mask, and glasses is using a pipette to load a sample into an Oxford Nanopore GridION sequencing device. The bottom of the banner features logos of partnering institutions, including the University of Glasgow, CVR, The Pirbright Institute, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, University of Birmingham, University of Cambridge, and the University of Edinburgh.

📢 Join us at the upcoming @ukri.org One Health Computational Network Symposium #OHCN2025, we'll be discussing surveillance, AI's potential, genome epidemiology & public health.

Connect with experts and help advance pandemic preparedness.

Register now: bioinformatics.cvr.ac.uk/one-health-c...