Postdoc position available for bacterial infection specialist!

we have a 3-year postdoc position available within our Wellcome Investigator Award. We are looking for a postdoc with experience in bacterial infection models, ideally both in vitro and in mouse models. Would be great if you would like to learn a little about proteomics along the way.

this project will utilise a novel, sensitive proteomics approach to characterise bacterial phagosomes.

apply here: https://jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastle-Research-AssistantAssociate-Proteomics-characterization-of-bacterial-phagosomes/833892001/

Welcome Delia and Sara!

Delia and Sara are joining our lab as international BSc students to do their final year project with Jose in the lab. They will work on a specific E3 ligase that appears to have relevance in viral infections.

Welcome!

Fantastic paper in Journal of Hepatology!

Finally out! A great paper by amazing postdocs Olivier and Anetta.

Govaere, O., Martinez-Lopez, N., Kragh Petersen, S., Mancina, R.M., Bel Lassen, P., Darlay, R., Peltier, J., Younes, R., Tiniakos, D., Aithal, G.P., Allison, M., Vacca, M., Yki-Järvinen, H., Dufour, J.-F., Ekstedt, M., Francque, S., Petta, S., Bugianesi, E., Schattenberg, J.M, Day, C.P., Cordell, H.J, Clément, K., Romeo, S., Ratziu, V., Daly, A.K., Anstee, Q.M*, Trost, M.*, Härtlova, A.*, Macrophage Scavenger Receptor 1 mediates lipid-induced inflammation in human obesity-related non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, (2021), Journal of Hepatology, Dec 20:S0168-8278(21)02254-6. Link

COVID19 collaboration out in Nature Comms!

A nice collaboration with Chris Duncan’s lab on “Delayed induction of type I and III interferons and nasal epithelial cell permissiveness to SARS-CoV-2” has just been published in Nature Communications.

Congratulations to all involved, particularly, Maria who led this work from our lab!

Hatton, C.F*, Botting, R.A.*, Dueñas, M.E.*, Haq, I.J., Verdon, B., Thompson, B.J., Stremenova Spegarova, J., Gothe, F., Stephenson, E., Gardner, A.I., Murphy, S., Scott, J., Garnett, J.P., Carrie, S., Hussain, R., Coxhead, J., Davey, T., Simpson, A.J., Haniffa, M., Hambleton, S., Brodlie, M., Ward, C., Trost, M., Reynolds, G., Duncan, C.J.A, Delayed induction of type I and III interferons and nasal epithelial cell permissiveness to SARS-CoV-2, (2021) Nature Communications Dec 7;12(1):7092. (*co-first authors)