Towers Lab Christmas Curry, Dec 2017
The Towers Lab round up another year with it's annual trip to 'Watch Me' in South Wimbledon for a Christmas curry with friends.
'Tall Poppies' launch their new single 'Now', Nov 2017
Doug's band 'Tall Poppies' launched their new single 'Now' at the Luna Lounge in Leytonstone on Friday and Towers Lab and friends were there to see it. Great band, great night.
Dr Rich Miles has earned his PhD, October 2017
Rich successfully defended his thesis 'Investigating the anti-HIV-1 restriction factor MxB'
Doug was interviewed by the Wellcome Trust to discuss electron microscopy in HIV drug development, October 2017
Dr Doug Fink discusses the emergence of drug resistant HIV and the work being done by Professor Peijun Zhang using a cutting-edge technique cryo-electron microscopy to develope new and better drugs. Click to view the Wellcome Trust video.
Greg was interviewed for a series of videos on HIV for 'Serious Science', January - August 2017
'Retroviruses in Gene Therapy' and 'Innate Immunity' are among the videos presented by Greg for 'Serious Science', an organisation whose mission is 'to spread knowledge and share the greatest advances in various realms of academia with our readers'.
Towers Lab summer picnic, July 2017
The Towers lab and friends enjoyed some down time at their picnic in Regents Park.
Chris Presents 'The Truth about .... HIV' on BBC1, June 2017
PrEP, the new preventative treatment for HIV shows promise in the fight against its spread. As part of the BBC's series 'The Truth about...', Chris studies the history of HIV, its spread, treatments and the potential breakthrough of PrEP. In interviews with HIV sufferers, both in the UK and Africa, we see the devastating effect HIV can have on people's lives alongside the positive effect of new approaches to awareness, detection, prevention and treatment. Click to view clips from the programme.
Chris passed his PhD viva, June 2017
Congratulations to Dr Dr van Tulleken! He has passed his PhD viva titled 'Characterisation of Lentiviral Vpr Function and Mechanism.'
Isobel and Lorena present at the 9th Blizard Institute HIV Symposium, June 2017
Towers lab members presented at the 9th Blizard Symposium at Queen Mary University. Isobel and Lorena gave talks on 'Mechanisms of HIV induced T cell death', and 'Evasion of DNA sensing by capsid distinguishes pandemic and non pandemic HIV' respectively, while Claire ('HIV-1 utilises CPSF6 and CypA in T cells to facilitate otherwise poorly efficient DNA synthesis'), Lucy ('Cyclosporine A Rescues a Type I Interferon-Induced IFITM3-Mediated Block to Viral Infection') and Katsia ('Structural Determinants of HIV-1 Pandemicity') gave elevator pitches in a session designed to allow scientists to demonstrate a snaphot of their work.
Both Lucy and Katsia won prizes for their poster presentations.
Outbreak! went to Gayhurst School in Hackney as part of their science week. Richard and Greg oversaw the diagnostic fun as children worked to diagnose and beat the outbreak before it spread.Hand prints from clean and dirty hands on agar plates formed part of another experiment run through the week showing the value of washing your hands.
Claire Kerridge presented at the Cold Spring Harbor Retrovirus Meeting, May 2017
Claire presented 'HIV-1 utilises CPSF6 and CypA in T cells to facilitate otherwise poorly efficient DNA synthesis' at this year's Cold Spring Harbor Retrovirus Meeting
Greg took part in the Wellcome Trust debate to explore the role of expertise, May 2017
'Is mistrust of expertise damaging research?' is the question asked by the Wellcome Trust. To answer this and investigate what can be done to address the issue, Wellcome interviewed Greg along with other leading scientists and held a 4-week debate on Facebook and Twitter.To see what they learned, follow this link
John Walter presented at the Divisional Internal seminar series, March 2017
Dr John Walter presented at the Division's internal seminar series. 'A Virus Walks into A Bar'
Inspire! came to UCL for 'Outbreak!', Lucy's public engagement event designed to mimic an outbreak of virus for children to diagnose and manage.
John Walter, our artist in residence in Infection at UCL, displayed works dipicting an exploding virus and HIV capsid at the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. His picture appeared in both The Times and the Glasgow Hearld both of which covered the event.
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