Jason Mercer
@MercerLab
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Pox Virologist and Systems Biologist, Virus Cell Biology Lab, @IMIBirmingham @UoBbiosciences
Birmingham, England
Joined October 2016
There is not much I can add to what Eva @FrickelLab says here. Don’t take time for granted, life can be short. Leo lived and loved everyday to its fullest. There are no words to describe how much we miss our little boy 💚.
Our beautiful son Leo aged 4 died on 18th Sep in a freak accident. (1/5)
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RT @FrickelLab: 🔥 Open postdoc position in human inflammation-driven control of infection! . Join me at the University of Geneva, Switzerla….
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Congratulations to @m_krause0206 for her paper just out in @JCellBiol! See her twittorial below and thanks to all the great collaborations 🙏.
The main story of my PhD research project is finally out in @JCellBiol today!.We were looking at how Vaccinia virus circumvents host immunity by disabling the autophagy machinery through depletion of sequestome-like receptors (SLRs). For a 🧵see below:.
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RT @EM__Ian: Paper out with former @LMCB_UCL colleagues @SamolejJ and @MercerLab . Cardiac glycosides inhibit early and late vaccinia viru….
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And another one for @SamolejJ! . Here he shows how cardiac glycosides (think toad venom) inhibit poxvirus infection. Just out in JGV @MicrobioSoc . . Great working with @StrangVirusLab and @EM__Ian once again!!.
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RT @JournalSpectrum: Bisbenzimide compounds inhibit replication of prototype and pandemic potential poxviruses! @SamolejJ has extended our….
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Congratulations to @SamolejJ who shows that bisbenzimides block replication of prototype (vaccinia) and pandemic potential (mpox) poxviruses!. Just out in @JournalSpectrum. Excellent collaboration with @StrangVirusLab @CVRinfo @lifearc1 and @ayakimovich.
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RT @laurapokorny: Really happy to see this work out and peer reviewed. Thanks a lot to everyone involved. Here is a happy bleb to entice yo….
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Congratulations to @laurapokorny who shows that virus binding proteins aren’t just for binding! . Just out in @emboreports. Thanks to all who contributed! @JemimaBurden @yorgomodis @D4V1D_4 Becky Bamford,Kendra Leigh,Pooja Sridhar,Timothy Knowles.
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RT @FrickelLab: Today we opened the wonderful play ship for the @HanburySchool children in Leo’s memory. 💚 All made possible by resources,….
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RT @FrickelLab: 💥 Out now @ScienceMagazine. @DanielHFisch solves the mystery of bystander cell protection during infection. An exciting mec….
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RT @HanburySchool: The @WorcCathedral Christmas Tree Festival features trees decorated by local schools & other organisations. Ours celebra….
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RT @CASUSscience: As expected, the quality of science presented remained high also on the 2nd day. Many thanks to @MercerLab (@IMIBirmingha….
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This takes “spying on your neighbours” to a whole other level !
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RT @GraingerLab: Less than 24 hours to go until #molmicro2022. 4 years worth of organising, unorganising, and reorganising through the pa….
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