James gave a talk, "Integrating evolutionary biology and deep learning to uncover selective druggable targets in virally targeted immune signalling", and Mollie, Jiaying and Banbha presented posters on viruses of nematodes, pollution and pathogens in wild otters, and tick-borne flaviviruses in Northern Ireland. Photos on the people page.
Emer joins us as a Research Fellow on EnviroFlu, surveilling avian influenza in freshwater sites used by wild migratory waterbirds across the island of Ireland. Meet Emer.
Connor and Kaitie both spoke at the IFN-λ Satellite Workshop, held at the CRUK Scotland Institute in Glasgow on 22 October as a satellite to Cytokines 2026, on interferon-lambda evolution and on species-specific restriction of interferon-lambda activity across mammals. The day before, James gave a talk at the NILAB Annual Symposium titled "Predicting where protein language models are evolutionarily blind". Photos on the people page.
Our new home on the web goes live, with the research we do, the people doing it, and how to join us.
We are joined this term by new PhD researchers, master's students and undergraduate project students, working across virology, evolution and computational biology. Welcome to everyone starting with us. Meet the lab.