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Sarah Caddy

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Vet, Viral Immunologist and Assistant Professor at the Baker Institute for Animal Health, Cornell NY. Fascinated by viruses, antibodies and vaccines. www.caddylab.org

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University of Cambridge recommends vet school closure Final cohort would graduate in 2032, as university said it found “no viable long-term solution” for “the sustainable delivery of clinical services”.

This is terrible news for the future of veterinary research. The world class introduction to research I received whilst a vet student at the University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk cannot be replicated elsewhere in the UK www.vettimes.com/news/vets/we...

12.12.2025 11:11 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Mechanisms of maternal antibody interference with rotavirus vaccination | The EMBO Journal imageimageMaternal antibodies are correlated with a reduced ability of infants to produce antibodies following oral rotavirus vaccination. This interference is attributed in this study primarily to va...

The paradox of maternal antibodies; protection v interference. Our first paper in this fascinating field is out! www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

14.10.2025 11:49 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Rotavirus legends at the 15th International Rotavirus symposium! 🥹

30.09.2025 08:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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First visit to our collaborators at the inspirational Center for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia! Such a privilege to see where some of the infant samples we study have come from.

24.09.2025 17:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Thanks for another brilliant ASV annual meeting @amersocvirology.bsky.social!
The Caddy lab had a fabulous time 😍

19.07.2025 00:36 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Coronavirus causes fatal disease outbreak in cats | The Roslin Institute | The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies A harmful strain of coronavirus has caused a fast-spreading outbreak of a harmful feline disease.

A hybrid coronavirus, formed of cat and dog coronaviruses, caused a severe outbreak of disease among cats in Cyprus, researchers found.

Their work, in Nature, showed how this new virus was able to cause widespread cases of Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP) among the island’s cats.

10.07.2025 14:47 — 👍 31    🔁 27    💬 0    📌 8
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What are the professional and personal benefits of being on our Editorial Boards? Here's what some of our members had to say about their experience. Journal of General Virology is currently recruiting- find out more about the available vacancies at: microb.io/Vacancies.

02.07.2025 10:02 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Huge congratulations to my postdoc mentor - Leo James FRS!

21.05.2025 01:47 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Terrence S. Dermody and Julie K. Pfeiffer: To tackle chronic disease, turn to the virologists Despite the United States being a global leader in many areas, Americans are not healthy. Life expectancy is lower than in other industrialized nations,...

Terry Dermody and I wrote an op-ed about chronic diseases ("Make America Healthy Again"), the role of viral infections, and how virologists can help. www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...

28.04.2025 15:10 — 👍 31    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 0

🚨Job alert 🚨

I am looking for an enthusiastic & talented postdoctoral researcher to join our research team in Hamilton, MT, USA.

If you are interested in
🦠 emerging respiratory viruses (BSL2-4),
🔬mucosal immunology, and
🐁 in vivo studies,

Check out:
www.training.nih.gov/jobs/pdpmire...

22.04.2025 23:27 — 👍 11    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 1
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Cheers to our 3y reappointment on tenure track - so grateful to be on this journey at #Cornell alongside Assistant Profs Colleen Lau and Andrew Flyak 🤩

18.04.2025 22:46 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Bovine H5N1 binds poorly to human-type sialic acid receptors - Nature Nature - Bovine H5N1 binds poorly to human-type sialic acid receptors

After 8 months of peer review, our manuscript was published today @nature.com showing that bovine H5N1 viruses bind poorly to human-type sialic acid receptors. We now know that the virus is only 1 HA substitution away from efficiently binding human receptors.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

16.04.2025 18:40 — 👍 256    🔁 101    💬 13    📌 6
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View from my office. What the heck April in Ithaca?! Never imagined I’d be missing spring weather in England…

16.04.2025 11:53 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Virologist builds on Baker Institute’s 75-year groundbreaking history | Cornell Chronicle Dr. Sarah Caddy conducts innovative research on canine viruses at the Baker Institute for Animal Health.

Fame, Cornell style: news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
❤️ Baker Institute for Animal Health

11.04.2025 20:08 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Such a pleasure to visit my inspirational #rotavirus mentor Ulrich Desselberger at home with his wife Elizabeth. I can’t imagine a kinder or wiser virologist.

05.04.2025 15:09 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Fabulous talk on 30,000 year old viruses by @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social at #microbio25. Thanks Charlotte!

02.04.2025 09:50 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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01.04.2025 07:30 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Annual Conference 2025

Excited to be on a red-eye flight to LHR for @microbiologysociety.org! Travelling without kids is a cinch! microbiologysociety.org/event/annual...

30.03.2025 21:47 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Innate immune sensing of rotavirus by intestinal epithelial cells leads to diarrhea Hou et al. demonstrate in an infant mouse model that innate immune sensing of enteric viruses induces IFN-λ signaling, which downregulates an apical chloride exchanger that leads to increased intestin...

Great to hear this rotavirus paper discussed on #TWiV @microbetv.bsky.social. We covered this in a recent lab meeting and agree the graphical abstract is very eye-catching! www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

28.03.2025 01:00 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

3/3 abstracts for ASV 2025 accepted in my lab today 🤩 Thanks to the abstract reviewing team! Montreal here we come…

25.03.2025 19:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bill Gates on vaccines, conspiracy theories and the pleasures of pickleball Podcast Episode · The Life Scientific · 20/08/2024 · 36m

This conversation with Bill Gates is now several months old, but is highly worth listening to. Great discussion about rotavirus vaccines. #inspiring. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

22.03.2025 18:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mechanisms of maternal antibody interference to rotavirus vaccination Maternal antibodies (MatAbs) are transferred transplacentally during pregnancy and through breast milk after birth to provide protection whilst the neonatal immune response is immature. However, MatAb...

The maternal antibody paradox: how are these antibodies both good and bad? Excited to share our new insights for rotavirus vaccines
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

21.03.2025 17:44 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Glad to have played a small part in this big story! Studying the differences between CD28 in humans and mice reveal reasons for the disastrous 2006 trial www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

21.03.2025 17:41 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Just a casual Wednesday afternoon with my 4y old in Upstate New York #brightside.

20.02.2025 12:04 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We are looking for new colleagues! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29722 I can’t recommend the Microbiology and Immunology Department at Cornell Ithaca highly enough.

12.02.2025 22:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Glad to be spending the day at SUNY Upstate talking about wierd and wonderful antibodies. Syracuse really feels like a metropolis after Ithaca!

23.01.2025 14:25 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Yes it’s cold, but we love Ithaca! Taughannock Falls were incredible yesterday.

11.01.2025 15:53 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Christmas lab celebrations from 2024 compared to 2023! Wonderful to have new faces of all ages!!

12.12.2024 23:29 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The tiny Caddy lab Christmas tree. Got to encourage creativity in the lab👏 Please share your lab decorations!

09.12.2024 19:02 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh my goodness, Congrats Elly!!

04.12.2024 01:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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