Ed Emmott

Update on UKRI funding situation.

Summary: it is mostly bad news, and with significant uncertainties around new funding model.

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This project would not have been possible without the incredible Liverpool Roller Birds, and the wonderful @emmottlab.bsky.social
at @liverpooluni.bsky.social, and with support from the @microbiologysociety.org Outreach & Engagement Grant!

🚨 Big news! We’re thrilled to announce the release of both the Behind-the-Scenes Mini-Doc and the Full Recording of Antiviral Roller Skating! 🛼✨

Now you can watch the mini-doc to see how it all came together behind the scenes: youtu.be/0nevSD1wrdg

And the full performance: youtu.be/mp995EBB3Bo

We have a few more to come!

New preprint on flavivirus-host interactions with friend and collaborator Armando who spent a couple of months visiting the lab to do the interactomics with us.

An astral zoom is landing!

Christmas is coming early to the CPR!

Single-cell phenotypic analysis and multiplet detection through incorporation of microscopy data into cellenONE-based single-cell proteomic data analysis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.01.691577v1

See Markella’s thread for more information on our new scpImaging preprint!

New preprint. Thread to follow!

Postdoctoral fellow - Petsalaki Group - NetworkCommons Your group The Petsalaki, Saez-Rodriguez (EMBL-EBI) and Korcsmáros (Imperial College) groups develop cutting-edge computational and AI approaches to unravel cellular signalling and gene regulation fro...

#Postdoc alert! We are looking for motivated individual with experience in computational systems biology to join our NetworkCommons initiative to benchmark and democratise network contextualisation methods across multiple applications. Deadline Dec 17th link here: tinyurl.com/yrrzxa94

New preprint! More landing soon!

We’ve been considering creating an announcement mailing list for #PRIDE @pride-ebi.bsky.social; to share new features, releases, datasets, known issues, and more.

If you think this would be useful, please Like and RT!

New preprint: IFIT3 controls IFIT1 accumulation and specificity preventing self mRNA targeting during the innate immune response.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Led by Renata Fleith from the Sweeney lab.

Huge congrats Alejandro!

Looking forward to the BMSS Single cell SIG today!

Rare personal update - back to work after two weeks in one of my favourite cities (Kyoto), now married to my best friend Anna!

Funded PhD opportunity!

Brady BMP51 - can get labels with top and side parts for eg eppendorfs and the labels stay on at -80 and in liquid nitrogen.

To clarify, I'm referring to NHS pilot service provision-based ethics

Both are lancet group journals, and in the second case lancet group advice was sought.

I see @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social from the lancet group published a study yesterday under pilot study ethics. This is great.

What is concerning is that a competing study was rejected a month ago from @ebiomedicine.bsky.social, AFTER PASSING PEER REV, as pilot study ethics insufficient. What changed?

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

Not my area, but amazing news on treating neurodegenerative diseases today - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Science comes alive at the 2025 British Science Festival - University of Liverpool News Science comes alive at the 2025 British Science Festival

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us and helped make the Festival such a success!! 💙 #BritishScienceFestival #BSF25 @britsciassoc.bsky.social

Read more and see our highlights here >>> brnw.ch/21wVNyw

This was great fun, and excellent questions at the Q & A after the show. Looking forward to sharing the recordings soon.

We are still buzzing from our show! Here’s some snaps of what you missed… in case you were wondering….

Huge thank you to the whole production team and the people who made this happen!

@microbiologysociety.org @britsciassoc.bsky.social @emmottlab.bsky.social @livuninews.bsky.social
#BSF25

Antiviral roller skating! | British Science Festival 2025 - Unity Theatre Run time: 18.30 – 19:15 Throwback: it’s summer 2020, lockdowns are looming, you’ve bought yourself a pair of roller skates to cure your boredom… Swoop over to see the Liverpool Roller Birds dance agai...

The British science festival 2025 has started in Liverpool and @idb-virology.bsky.social and the team are looking forward to welcoming visitors to the Unity theatre this evening for some antiviral roller skating! @antiviral-rskating.bsky.social www.unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk/whats-on/ant...

Understanding the future risk of bat coronavirus spillover into humans: correlating sarbecovirus receptor usage, host range, and antigenicity. Sarbecoviruses interact with their receptor, angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), via the receptor binding domain (RBD) of Spike, the immunodominant target for neutralising antibodies. Understandin...

Our first post on here and it's a doozy 😍🤩. Our epic piece on #sarbecovirus host range. #virology #sars2 #covid #vaccines. Enjoy and please repost. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The lab is being represented at the IX International Calicivirus Conference in Banff by @tartanvirus.bsky.social! Catch Frazer to talk protease substrates and proteomics.

Graphic of roller-skaters in front of a coronavirus

Antiviral roller skating! It's the sports / science crossover event we've been waiting for! Part of British Science Festival, Liverpool Roller Birds will show you just what Coronavirus can do, and how science stops it. 12 Sept britishscienceassociation-tickets.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/... #BSF25