Firth Lab @FirthLab

RNA viruses, comparative genomics, gene expression, novel virus discovery and ribosome profiling. @Cambridge_Uni @CamPathology firthlab.path.cam.ac.uk Cambridge, England Joined November 2018

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Firth Lab @FirthLab

2 years ago

Registration/Abstract Deadline 20 Jan

RiboSeqOrg @RiboSeqOrg

2 years ago

Registration/Abstract Deadline 20 Jan

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RiboSeqOrg @RiboSeqOrg

2 years ago

One month is left until the registration deadline for EMBO Workshop on Recoding and Diversity of Genetic Decoding: meetings.embo.org/event/24-genet… #EMBOrecoding

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ChungLab @TranslatingRNA

2 years ago

What is OUP-mediated translation initiation? Find out @ nature.com/articles/s4146…. Fantastic work driven by our dynamic PDRA:PhD duo. @OJ_Bryant and Filip Lastovka, @TranslatingRNA @CamPathology

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#TUK23 Prize winners presented by our very dear TUK veteran Nancy Standart! Poster prize ECR Chiara Giacomelli, Poster prize PhD Karim Elbouri, Talk prize 1 Farnex Mansouri-Noori, Talk prize 2 Federica Capraro!

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ChungLab @TranslatingRNA

2 years ago

Can't believe #TUK23 was last week! Fond memories ♥️♥️ with Anne Willis and Nancy Standart. Already looking forward to TUK24Surrey organised by Andre Gerber @andre_gerber , Hannah Burgess @HannahmBurgess, Nick Locker @locker_nic and Trevor Sweeney @TrevorSweeney4 !

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ChungLab @TranslatingRNA

3 years ago

We aim to fund some travel bursaries for students where there is limited external funding. Please ask students to send travel bursary requests (maximum 250 words of explanation) to [email protected]

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ChungLab @TranslatingRNA

3 years ago

Translation UK 2023 is happening! translationuk2023.com When/Where: 03-05.07.23, University of Cambridge. Early bird student (03.31.23): £120. Student rate: £200. Non-Student: £268. Thank you @thermofisher, @colorifix, @generon_ltd, @PCR_Biosystems and @CambridgeBiosci!

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ChungLab @TranslatingRNA

3 years ago

2X BBSRC PDRA opportunities, Chung lab, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge. Please see below for graphical abstract. dropbox.com/s/jetbpci9dxa9… jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/39648/ jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/39649/

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Trisna Tungadi @trisna_tungadi

3 years ago

Two postdoc positions in molecular virology available in @jpc1005 John Carr’s lab. Fantastic group to work with!

Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge @camplantsci

3 years ago

Two postdoc positions in molecular virology available in @jpc1005 John Carr’s lab. Fantastic group to work with!

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Ingrida Olendraite @Ingridole

3 years ago

My PhD work (with @thekatybrown1 and @FirthLab) on identification of RNA virus-derived RdRp sequences in the TSA database is now available on @biorxiv_micrbio! 🧵 below. 🥳 shorturl.at/fqv38 #rna #virology #rdrp #metagenomics #pHMM @campathpostdocs @campathgrad @EVBC

bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv_micrbio

3 years ago

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Firth Lab @FirthLab

3 years ago

Job opportunity: Assistant/Associate Professor in Virology. Join a thriving virology community with excellent facilities in a supportive environment. Applications from postdocs ready to start their own group are encouraged. Deadline: 30 October. Apply: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/36727/

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ChungLab @TranslatingRNA

4 years ago

Register now for Two fabulous @BiochemSoc talks by Noam Stern-Ginossar @SGinossarLab, Weizmann Institute of Science and Allen Burskirk, John Hopkins University on Ribosome profiling in viruses and bacteria. Wed, Aug 4, 2021 register.gotowebinar.com/register/46180…

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Ingrida Olendraite @Ingridole

4 years ago

Glad to be part of this :) now in every assembly we check for #E484K et al. Impressive, how Gytis managed to pull this off in less than a month from the time when we noticed the weirdo B.1.620. Check the thread 🧵 below! @CamPathology

Gytis Dudas 🇱🇹🇪🇺 @evogytis.bsky.social @evogytis

4 years ago

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Katy Brown @thekatybrown1

4 years ago

I'm very happy to have been awarded one of this year's Software Sustainability Institute fellowships! Looking forward to getting involved and working together.

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ChungLab @TranslatingRNA

4 years ago

Fantastic BBSRC-funded post-doctoral opportunity in the Chung lab @TranslatingRNA, @CamPathology, University of Cambridge to study RNA ThermoSwitch-mediated translation control mechanisms in collaboration with the @Lomonossoff_Lab, @JohnInnesCentre. jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/29341/

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ChungLab @TranslatingRNA

5 years ago

We are very grateful for UKRI and our reviewers for awarding us a UKRI-BBSRC COVID19 rapid response grant + a UKRI-BBSRC project grant to study an RNA ThermoSwitch with the @Lomonossoff_Lab at JIC. 🐮 2021! @BBSRC @UKRI_News

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Valeria Lulla @LullaValeria

5 years ago

Excited to welcome applications for a postdoc to join our multidisciplinary 3-year MRC-funded project on enterovirus gene expression in Cambridge @CamPathology. Please RT! #jobsacuk jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/28033/

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European Virus Bioinformatics Center @EVirusBioinfC

5 years ago

Antisense "gapmer" oligonucleotides that efficiently base-pair to the #SARSCoV2 s2m region show promise as anti-viral agents. Preprint co-authored by EVBC member A.E. Firth @FirthLab #COVID19treatments biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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Katy Brown @thekatybrown1

5 years ago

Congraulations @schnamori for the winning the poster prize for CIAlign (biorxiv.org/content/10.110…) at #IVBM2020. And @Ingridole for Best Newcomer! @FirthLab ftw 😀