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Nothing in HIV Makes Sense Except in Light of Evolution
Today, the 1st of December marks World AIDS day. A day designed to raise awareness of those 37 million people infected with HIV (and the potential for that number to grow) and this year aims to end Isolation, Stigma, and Transmission, under the umbrella of a ‘right to health’. This day is one of 9… Continue reading
Back with the Vampires in Peru
Happy Halloween from all at the CVR! About this time last year in 2016 we made an episode of Contagious Thinking (which I encourage you all to have a listen to/see link at the end) about vampire bats and the deadly rabies virus that they can carry and spread across Latin America. Vampire bats can… Continue reading
All about antivirals – the Arbidol story
In this episode of Contagious Thinking Elihu and Connor talk with Steve Polyak from the University of Washington in Seattle USA about how some drugs stop viruses from infecting us. In particular we chat about his work on a drug Arbidol that can block many viruses and is actually an over-the-counter medicine in Russia and… Continue reading
3D influenza models from the Glasgow School of Art
This week the Glasgow School of Art will be holding its 2017 Graduate Degree Show, including work from students completing an MSc in Medical Visualisation and Human Anatomy in a course run jointly with the University of Glasgow. One of these students is Naina Nair, who put her training in medical visualisation to use in… Continue reading
How to catch a pig and its viruses in Uganda
In the latest episode of Contagious Thinking, join CVR PhD student Jack Hirst and postdoc Connor Bamford as they chat with Dr Charles Masembe (follow him on Twitter:@cmasembe10) about his work on some of Africa’s most important animal viruses. Charles works currently on a virus called African swine fever virus (ASFV), which causes a deadly disease in… Continue reading
World Mosquito Day/Week – Part VII
Akira JT Alexander, Research Assistant, INFRAVEC2 Tell me about your background? My research has always been focused on interactions and sensing, in particular within host pathogen interactions. I have a BSc in Plant Science from Edinburgh University where I studied developmental switching in response to nutrient deprivation in the well-known plants, Fungi. I have an… Continue reading
World Mosquito Day/Week – Part VI
Stephanie Cumberworth – PhD Student, Kohl Lab Tell me about your background/ Why did you get into this field of research? I completed my undergraduate studies in Microbiology with Virology at The University of Leeds. During this time I spent a year at The National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR, now part of The Francis… Continue reading
World Mosquito Day/Week – Part V
Emilie Pondeville – Research Associate, Kohl Lab Tell me about your background and why you got into this field of research? During my Masters and PhD studies, I worked with the fly model Drosophila and also the Anopheles mosquitoes that transmit malaria to humans. In a different way to the fruit fly, female mosquitoes need a ‘blood-meal’… Continue reading
World Mosquito Day/Week – Part IV
Margus Varjak, Research Associate, Marie Curie Fellow, Kohl lab Tell me about your background? I did my bachelor and master studies in gene technology in Estonia at the University of Tartu. Following that, I continued in a PhD program with my supervisor Prof Andres Merits. As a PhD student, I studied mostly the replication complexes… Continue reading