Suzannah Rihn
@Lab_Rihn_th
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Virologist & PI @Cambridge_Uni. Interested in retroviruses, CoVs, cross-species transmission, & my kid & 🐶. Views my own. She/her.
Cambridge, UK
Joined October 2020
"A new film about the origins of Covid-19 tells how rightwing conspiracy theorists pushed the lab-leak theory to their own ends, suppressing the work of real scientists"
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A new film about the origins of Covid-19 tells how rightwing conspiracy theorists pushed the lab-leak theory to their own ends, suppressing the work of real scientists
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Our next KIER (Knowledge, Inclusion and Equity in Research) book club will be on the 28th February, where we'll be discussing Medical Apartheid, a book about the non-consensual use of African American people in medical research You only get cake if you attend!
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This particular myth winds me up, and I know @ArisKatzourakis shares my pain...! https://t.co/7cq7FhRYVM
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To get 2025 off to a good start, I'm delighted to share with you our study published today in @NatureMicrobiol 🎉 We studied the ability of the receptor-binding proteins (RBP) of >100 animal viruses to mediate entry into human cells. A short thread below. https://t.co/YDuhBXKtwc
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Nature Microbiology - Functional systematic pseudotype virus-based analysis of the ability of diverse animal viruses to enter into a panel of well-characterized human cell lines shows a broad...
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Do you think you've had long-term GI problems since having Covid? We are performing a study examining the characteristics of viruses, specifically persistent SARS-CoV-2 infections, in stool samples. 1/3
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In the latest issue! Co-opting templated aggregation to degrade pathogenic tau assemblies and improve motor function
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RING-Bait technology hijacks the process of templated aggregation to recruit ubiquitination machinery and selectively degrade pathogenic tau assemblies without generating a specific binder, thereby...
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WHO report about the role of vaccines in reducing antimicrobial resistance. The estimates for #RSV: globally, 3.9 mi. pathogen-associated antibiotic use would be averted if preventive strategy targeting RSV protection in infants https://t.co/LPF4kvI3ln
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🎉Huge congrats to the winners from last weeks #DOMResesrchDay2024 who picked up prizes for best Poster, Flash Talk and Oral presentations by PhD students and postdocs! L-R: Johanna Jung, Matthew Yip, Jordi Lambert, Grace West, David Lindsay & Despina Giakomidi
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Really incredible work, high-risk viruses are already circulating in wild and farm animals, including CoVs. This underscores the importance of pandemic preparedness research to stop future naturally occurring pandemics. 👇
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Nature - Fur farming represents an important hub of cross-species transmission for viral zoonoses.
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New paper out @Nature - why are males more vulnerable to severe infections (ex acute #COVID), while females suffer more from autoimmunity (SLE, MS etc and also #LongCovid)? sex chromosomes or hormones? Here we studied adaptation of human immune systems to gender-affirming
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It’s fair season, so before you and your family head to an agricultural fair, learn the actions you can take to keep everyone healthy and protected against #H5N1 #birdflu. More here: https://t.co/K4XI5Fi7df
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Just stopping by your timeline in case you didn’t know that the Chief Science Advisors for Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States - are all women 🔥
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#SAMD9L is an antiviral factor against #HIV & primate lentiviruses, inhibiting viral & cell translation Thrilled our findings led by @Alexandre_Lgrnd found such a great home @PLOSBiology ! @CIRI_Lyon @CNRSbiologie @Inserm @ENSdeLyon @UniversiteLyon
https://t.co/8IIGSsnxYu (1/3)
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SAMD9 and SAMD9L are known restriction factors of poxviruses, but it is currently unknown if the SAMD9 gene family can restrict other viruses. This study demonstrates that SAMD9L, but not SAMD9,...
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RSV kills 20-30 babies in the UK every year and even milder cases are just miserable, as I know from 2x very sick babies of my own 😢 So great to hear that from 1st September, the UK will be offering an RSV vaccine in pregnancy to protect newborns! 🥳 https://t.co/VV2mw8303g
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Structures of H5N1 influenza A virus polymerase with human ANP32B reveal mechanisms of replication and host adaptation. Great collaboration with @jonathan_grimes and @wendybarclay11 labs led by @CarriqueLoic @OxfordStrubi and @EccoStaller @Dunn_School
https://t.co/SkIoZrZYrK
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Nature Communications - The authors demonstrate how avian H5N1 influenza A virus polymerase interacts with human ANP32B to facilitate the replication of the viral genetic information in mammalian...
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Curious about many of the cell intrinsic blocks to infection of lentiviruses in our cells? We wrote a (fairly comprehensive) review to help guide you through on this decades-long literature dive. (credit to UW Ph.D. student Joy who did much of the heavy lifting here)
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Delighted to be giving the first @VirologyWakate journal club! I'll be talking about a cool evolutionary arms race story between SARS-CoVs and bat immune systems I worked on with @WilsonLabCITIID during our time at the @CVRinfo! This Wed, 7pm Japan time, register below ⬇⬇⬇
We are inviting everyone, especially the young virologists worldwide, to join us for the very first journal club of Wakate Young Virologists Network. Our first speaker is Dr. Spyros Lytras @SpyrosLytras of @SystemsVirology Lab. Please repost! 🦠
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【Please RT】Excited to share our new research in bioRxiv! We here developed CoVFit, a protein language model predicting the fitness (transmissibility) of SARS-CoV-2 variants from the S protein sequence. 1/n https://t.co/04cVK33z0s
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How do #pathogens become more virulent? Read on for a tale of #ancient bones, #ancientDNA, and a very modern danger in the chicken industry… 🧵1/14
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