Lab news

November 2026

New lab website launched

Our new home on the web goes live. Welcome to the prospective students joining us this autumn.

November 2026

Talk and posters at the Microbiology Society Annual Meeting in Ireland

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.

November 2026

Emer McCann joins as our first postdoc

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.