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.

We have waved fairwell 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.

Greg attended the 1st South African Workshop on SARS-CoV-2 Variants and Evolution, Nov 2022

 

Greg went to South Africa to attend the '1st South African Workshop on SARS-CoV-2 Variants and Evolution' hosted by AHRI in St Lucia (SA) where he presented 'Evasion of innate immunity by SARS-CoV-2 and why we think this is important for transmission'

Pre Conference Shenanigans in South Africa, Nov 2022

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