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Jas has Moved on to a Lectureship Position at Leeds University, December 2023
We wished Jas well in his future lectureship position at Leeds University.
Greg was Invited to Present at the Institut Pasteur Meeting ANRS | MIE - AC41 Annual Symposium, November 2023
Greg was invited by Guia Carrara to present his talk ‘HIV, Host Defence and how it may relate to Cure’ at the ANRS | MIE - AC41 Annual Symposium “Targeting the HIV reservoir: from HIV sensing to immunotherapies”
Greg hosted the Medical Research Club for Early Career Researchers, November 2023
Doug Fink, Becky Sumner and Lucy Thorne presented at the Medical Research Club with Greg hosting.
Towers and jolly labs Halloween shenanigans, October 2023
Greg was Invited to Present at the ESGCT Meeting in Brussels, October, 2023
Greg was invited by Gaelle Jamar to present ‘Understanding intracellular Innate Immunity and how to apply it to infection, cancer and gene therapies‘
Greg was Invited to Speak at the Journal of General Virology Roadshow, October 2023
Greg was invited as keynote speaker to present ‘Evasion of innate immunity by HIV defines the pandemic lineage’
Greg was Invited to Present at The Company of Biologists Immunology Meeting 'Infectious Diseases Through an Evolutionary Lens’, October 2023
Greg was invited by Wendy Barclay from Imperial College London to present ‘What’s special about pandemic viruses - SARS-CoV-2 vs HIV’
We Wished Ying well as she has Moved on to a Position in Industry, October 2023
We celebrated at Clays in London to wish Ying well in her future career. Congratulations to Clare who was the overall winner!
The AViDD Sponsored Collaboration with the NIH held a Retreat in San Francisco, Sept 2023
Ziqi, Oliver, Greg, Clare and AK presented at the AViDD Retreat in San Francisco
Virtual Virology has made a come back, Sept 2023
Following a four year pandemic hiatus where ‘Virtual Virology’ took on a much wider meaning, it has returned. Dr Lucy Thorne from Imperial College London hosted three early career PIs:
- Coding Biases and the Recognition of Non-self RNA
Daniel Goncalves Carneiro
- HTLV-1 and T cell tumours: a rare chance to study virus-driven cancer evolution in humans
Aileen Rowan
- Defining the cellular landscape of viral restriction using systems biology
Laura Martin-Sancho
Towers and Jolly labs had their Annual Summer Celebration BBQ, August 2023
Greg hosted the Towers lab BBQ. Food was contributed by lab members, all fresh homemade fair and lots of international dishes. No UPF Here!!!
Ice Cream Power Break in Gordon Square for the Towers Lab, July 2023
Greg and Linran attended the Education Evolution Trust Event (EET), July 2023
Linran presented her slide 'Transposable elements (TEs) - The gatekeeper of host to fight cancer' to the EET who fund her PhD.
Greg was Invited to Speak at the Royal Society UK-Switzerland bilateral international meeting, June 2023
Greg presented ‘What’s special about pandemic viruses, HIV vs SARS-CoV-2‘ organised by the Royal Society and the Swiss Academy of Sciences to the UK-Switzerland bilateral international meeting.
Greg Was Invited to Speak at the CVR in Glasgow, June 2023
Dr Joe Grove invited Greg to present ‘What’s special about pandemic HIV’ at Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR).
Lucy has moved to Imperial College London, June 2023
We wished Lucy well with plenty of Champagne as she starts her own lab at Imperial.
ASV Satalite Symposium: The double edged sword of innate immunity. Balancing protective and pathogenic responses - Greg was invited to present, June 2023
Greg presented 'What makes pandemic viruses special? HIV and SARS-CoV-2 vs innate immunity' at the American Society of Virology satalite symposium in Atlanta
Cold Spring Harbor Retrovirus conference - Towers and Jolly labs attended, May 2023
Great to be back in person at Cold Spring Harbor Retrovirus Conference. Towers and Jolly labs made the trip to present:
Ying Ying Tan: Vpx degradation of HUSH reveals a protective epigenetic gatekeeper mechanism
Maorong Xie: HIV-1 Vpr antagonises interferon by suppressing STAT nuclear transport
Lydia Newton: Synthetic PROTACs based on a depsipeptide macrocycle selectively degrade cyclophilin A and inhibit HIV-1
AK Reuschl: Vpr regulates innate immune activation in resting memory T cells
Dejan Mesner: Cell-cell spread triggers a permissivity switch that enhances HIV infection in resting and activated T cells
Taylor Bronzovich: Vpr induction of a tissue-resident phenotype in resting T cells is a broadly conserved feature of lentiviruses
Catching up with Collaborators Al Leslie and Henrik Kloverpris, May 2023
Towers lab attend the Microbiological Society AGM, April 2023
Lucy presented 'Convergent evolution of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern to enhance innate immune suppression' in the SARS-CoV-2 - Immunity and Therapeutics session and Kate is presenting 'Design and Characterisation of Novel HIV Capsid Inhibitors' in the Integrated virology - a celebration of multidisiplinarity session.
Towers Lab public engagement is back! We went to Gayhurst Community School in Hackney for a Science Assembly, April 2023
After a three year break for COVID-19, we have resumed our school visits. It was great to see the students and staff again. The demos of spreading disease by sneezing and how much Norovirus there is in a teaspoon of poo were as popular as ever! Afterwards the students designed their own viruses inspired by the assembly and the textbooks we brought along.
Greg has participated in John Walters latest performance 'CAPSID, Performance of m_Doomsday{Shitney(exorcism)}' in Portsmouth, March 2023
John's show is running at The Apex, Portsmouth and narrates the history of the universe from the Big Bang through to viruses of the mind using script, song, costume and video projection.
Greg was Invited to Speak at CROI, Feb 2023
Greg presented 'What’s special about pandemic HIV Capsid' at CROI.
We have waved farewell to Morten, Feb 2023
After 5 years in the Towers lab, Morten has returned to Burgen in Norway. We wish him well!
The Towers and Jolly labs present at the first Genotype 2 Phenotype meeting at Crick, Jan 2023
Some great presentations and discussions at the Crick with the Genotyoe 2 Phenotype (G2P) members. Lucy and AK present at the Consortium's first meeting.
