New open access paper out in NatureEcoEvo TLDR: - Humans pass on more viruses to other vertebrates than they do to us - Generalist viruses (with broad host range) require fewer mutations to infect a novel host 1/ nature.com/articles/s4155…

Amazing stuff!

📢📢 Postdoc position available 📢📢 Application deadline June 16th. Post start date on or after Aug 1st. Please spread the word or get in touch with me if interested! kcl.ac.uk/jobs/087846-re…

Out now - a long simmering project: A minimal scenario for the origin of non-equilibrium order. arxiv.org/abs/2405.10911 Led by Riccardo Ravasio Riccardo Ravasio and Kabir Husain Kabir Husain (now at UCL); + fun collab with Constantine Evans, Rob Phillips, Jack Szostak Szostak Lab

Our mini-review of the recent reports revealing the architecture of the Commander complex is online. s.gwdg.de/s6BN9g

In fact, we have open positions at the postdoc and PhD level now! 🤩🤩🤩 Check them out here: renner-lab.com/join

Some great insights into how bats harbour viruses here! Congrats to the team

We are #hiring! We have an open #postdoctoral position in my group with the focus on structural biology #cryoEM and X-ray crystallography of new #E3 ligases as well as #molecularglue complexes. Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn isb_bonn nowak-lab.com Please RT!

Save the Date! We're delighted to announce that this year's #InfluenzaUpdateMeeting, the long-running UK community meeting for influenza virus researchers, will be held University of Glasgow on the 2nd - 3rd December 2024

Research on low pathogenic avian influenza in wild birds: “We demonstrate that H19 doesn’t bind the canonical IAV receptor sialic acid (Sia). Instead, H19 binds to the major histocompatibility complex class II (MHC class II), which facilitates viral entry. cell.com/cell-host-micr…

Recently finished your PhD? Why not spend the next few weeks writing it up into a short, accessible essay? Who knows, it could be published in Science Magazine and get you invited to participate in the The Nobel Prize festivities! Due July 15th - give it a try! 😊 Science & SciLifeLab Prize

Very happy to see this great story out!