Author: Brian Ferguson

https://www.sciencefestival.cam.ac.uk/ What a great opportunity to talk to the public about the work we do at the Department of Pathology! We had a fabulous time making germs and antibody models …

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Christmas Brunch 2017 @ The Old Bicycle Shop

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Delphine’s Birthday Dinner at Emmanuel Collage

Happy Birthday, Delphine!

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Lab trip 2017

Our annual traditional joint Ferguson and Smith Lab trip took place in Snowdonia.

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Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @JDAlbarnaz: This study crystallises the notion of DNA-PK as a DNA sensor, seven years after it was first described here (https://t.co/A…26 January 2020

Brian Ferguson@viropractorthe-scientist.com/news-opinion/n…26 January 2020

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @TheLancet: Today, we publish the first clinical data from individuals confirmed to be infected with 2019-nCov from Wuhan, China. As for…25 January 2020

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @ChelseaGerada1: Excited to announce that the review I helped write during my #PhD has offically been #published! If you're into #virus…24 January 2020

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @MRC_LMB: Top cryo-EM machines cost about $7 million. "They are Cadillacs. But science would benefit from something less posh. Henderson…24 January 2020

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @biorxiv_micrbio: Discovery of a novel coronavirus associated with the recent pneumonia outbreak in humans and its potential bat origin…23 January 2020

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @BarbMarte: How stress causes hair greying - Hyperactivation of sympathetic nerves drives depletion of melanocyte stem cells: https://t.…23 January 2020

Brian Ferguson@viropractora watershed moment for protein structure prediction nature.com/articles/d4158…22 January 2020

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @britsocimm: On Thursday 26 March, we’re holding a mass #publicengagement day to #CelebrateVaccines & the fundamental role of immunology…22 January 2020

Brian Ferguson@viropractorcoronavirus platter anyone? pic.twitter.com/GHqwXHW6oz22 January 2020

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @NYTHealth: Breaking News: An individual in Washington State is infected with the Wuhan coronavirus, the first such case in the U.S. The…21 January 2020

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @DrFran_Colucci: It's out today! Well done @OisinHuhn and Martin Ivarsson and all other co-authors for starting to sort out functions of…21 January 2020

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @mvicaracal: Online @nature: Three studies describe the role of B cells in #cancer immunology and #immunotherapy. Great collaboration by…21 January 2020

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @Laurie_Garrett: China's top #SARS expert Zhong Nanshan warns the nation that the #WuHanPneumonia virus can spread person-to-person, and…20 January 2020

Brian Ferguson@viropractorTime also a big issue here. It now takes more than 3-4 years to make a ‘big’ story/paper but most researchers are o… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…19 January 2020

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @uclmedsci: #MeetTheResearchers Mala Maini @maini_lab is Professor of Viral Immunology in the UCL Division of Infection and Immunity @uc…17 January 2020

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @britsocimm: 📢 We’re hiring! Are you a freelance science communicator with experience in developing educational #PublicEngagement resour…17 January 2020

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @yorgomodis: We have 2 funded postdoc positions available to study how cells sense and silence viral RNA and DNA. We benefit from an out…14 January 2020

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @edwardcholmes: All, an initial genome sequence of the coronavirus associated with the Wuhan outbreak is now available at https://t.co/E…11 January 2020

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @CyrilPedia: 'To understand the contribution to the immunosuppressive microenvironment, we depleted Tregs in a mouse model of pancreatic…09 January 2020

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @Immunoscope: IL-18 derived from neurons (not epithelial or immune cells) is necessary to protect against Salmonella | #Gut #neuroimmuno…09 January 2020

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @igoodfel: Awesome opportunity to work with my colleague Colin Crump here in the Division on BK polyomaviruses. jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/24548/…09 January 2020

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @HelenBranswell: Took down my earlier tweet, which wasn't clear enough: @WHO is confirming Chinese authorities think a new coronavirus —…09 January 2020

Brian Ferguson@viropractorMemory Cd8 T cells in brains of Alzheimer’s patients. Cool! twitter.com/wysscoray/stat…09 January 2020

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @DrTregoning: Me and @cjohansson_lab are teaming up to do a webinar. #DreamTeam What's a webinar you say? We don't know either, but am…08 January 2020

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @MRC_HIU: It is with great sadness that we learnt of the death of Professor Vincenzo Cerundolo FRS. Prof Cerundolo worked tirelessly and…07 January 2020

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @CyrilPedia: 'We applied this method to published single-cell RNA sequencing data from 74 disaggregated human embryos, spanning the moru…07 January 2020

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @BriggsGroup: Structures of virus-like capsids made by the neuronal Arc proteins. @SimonErlendsson's paper is now out in @NatureNeuro. T…07 January 2020

Brian Ferguson@viropractorSo if it isn’t sars what is it? bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…05 January 2020

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @ChauveauLise: Very excited to share the first preprint from the #RehwinkelLab @MRC_WIMM @MRC_HIU available today on @biorxivpreprint! W…04 January 2020

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @_Astro_Nerd_: 1/ For the millionth time: Women were FORBIDDEN to enter the labs of the Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry (cause…03 January 2020

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @10queues: Mystery pneumonia outbreak in China sparks fear of deadly SARS virus cbsnews.com/amp/news/china…03 January 2020

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @Samuel_Bakhoum: Very interesting work by the Pyle and ⁦@VirusesImmunity⁩ Labs showing how #viruses have evolved to evade #RIG-I activat…27 December 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @BiohackingP: Handmade bacteriophage. Now thats what the #Scientists want to see and work with. The best way to study small creatures.…27 December 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @LabWeekes: Very excited to share our HCMV interactome, accepted by @eLife today - great news in time for Christmas! Congratulations Lui…24 December 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @MazDivangahi: The concept of "Disease Tolerance" was originally introduced in plant by Cobb in 1894 but it took more than a century tha…23 December 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @karen_buttigieg: Recombinant MVA vaccine against Ebola being deployed in the DRC outbreak (with an Adenovirus-vectored Prime dose). Thi…19 December 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @rachelerigby: Latest article from the #RehwinkelLab @MRC_HIU in @JMolBiol reviewing nucleic acid sensors and programmed cell death http…18 December 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorWhat are you doing in the in the winter months Brian? 1- Looking after sick kids 2- Uploading 10^6 files to Je-S 3-… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…18 December 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @SanchoShimizu: Join our lab @ImperialInfect. Research Assistant position available funded by my #UKRIFLF project on the genetic basis o…17 December 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @russellevance: Here's something we found that was interesting and unexpected: STING-induced IFN is not essential for STING-dependent re…14 December 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @JDAlbarnaz: Structure of #VacciniaVirus RNA polymerase complex is uncovered in two back-to-back papers in the last issue of @CellCellPr…14 December 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @andrebafica_lab: Nice study on #ISG15 and #poxviruses, which combined with an earlier paper by @Mansurds’s shows another regulatory me…13 December 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorStill time to apply for a PhD in the lab working on viral nucleic acid sensing twitter.com/campathgrad/st…13 December 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @ArnaudjLegrand: Mutations that prevent caspase cleavage of RIPK1 cause autoinflammatory disease Patients with non✂️#RIPK1 mutations ➡️…12 December 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorFake reviews! I wonder how common this is? twitter.com/KamounLab/stat…12 December 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @campathgrad: Don't forget to look at our PhD studentships! Deadline is 1st January 2020 twitter.com/campathgrad/st…11 December 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @TheCIMR: Exciting recruitment opportunity for a Laboratory Supervisor/Research Assistant @LabWeekes @TheCIMR @Cambridge_Uni . Closing d…11 December 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorGo Anne!! @BSICambridge twitter.com/CamPathology/s…02 December 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractordelicious thread of FANCD2/FANCI structures twitter.com/lapassmore/sta…29 November 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @oliveirajhm: Antiviral immune resistance in Drosophila by a dSTING-dependent NFkB response. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…28 November 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @neoviral: It was known for some time that TLR8 binds degradation products rather than intact RNA molecules. This article links the act…28 November 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @AtomicVirology: Great talk by @BrinkmannLab taking about the mechanisms used by #MCMV and #HCMV to fine tune the innate immune response…27 November 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @Bergthalerlab: We discovered a mechanism by which type I interferon represses liver metabolism to modulate systemic metabolism and anti…26 November 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @millsjc67: Awesome work from Linda Samuelson's group! Every time you're tamoxi-floxing, you're probably causing metaplasia in your sto…24 November 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @10queues: It’s great to see our easy-to-cite ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile for the Paramyxoviridae published #JGenVirol https://t.co/ki8A…22 November 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @Sdt36Suzanne: Neuroblastoma UK funded Research Associate (Fixed Term) @Cambridge_Uni jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/23613/ we are recruiting! Are yo…21 November 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @rodguabiraba: Tripartite biological interactions between viruses, bacteria and animals naturemicrobiologycommunity.nature.com/channels/346-b… #behindthepaper21 November 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorGraphic abstract twitter.com/EnergyMemoryLa…21 November 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @GaetanBurgio: Wow, this is absolutely remarkable. The first clinical trials using #CRISPR for sickle cell anemia or thalassemia on 2 pa…19 November 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @russellevance: This is an amazing scandal. Worth reading this blog post through to the end. The scientist in question just published tw…18 November 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @tera_levin: Ever wonder where the innate immune system came from? Our new review looks across the eukaryotic tree to find new types of…14 November 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @Roy_Lab_Thinks: Show me another method that has found more new things... (remember WB pretty much bosses all signaling pathways ever)…13 November 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @Mauri_group: Breaking news!! We are looking for two talented postdocs to join our (amazing ☺️) group - someone to work on patient sampl…12 November 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorWe have a PhD studentship available to start in Oct 2020. Come and join us to work on anti-viral innate sensing mec… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…06 November 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @DrDavidAscher: Interesting new work from Katerina Artavanis-Tsakonas @CamPathology highlighting the interesting evolutionary difference…03 November 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @CyrilPedia: 'Careful and self-critical scientists who spend more time and resources to carry out more rigorous and careful studies may…03 November 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @martinjones78: #preprint with some beautiful #ElectronMicroscopy and #CLEM imaging by @mcdomart from @TheCrick in the @EM_STP team work…03 November 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @rbdamgaard: NOW HIRING! I'm looking for fantastic #postdoc and #PhD candidates 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 to join my new lab @DTUtweet in beautiful Copenha…01 November 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @britsocimm: 🥳 We're proud to announce that we've reached the 4,000 membership mark! Welcome new BSI members👋 Our community now consist…30 October 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @Laura_Fusion: The speaker list is shaping up nicely for #Ubiq20. Join us in Portugal July 2020 for an unforgettable meeting on ubiquiti…30 October 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @yana__safonova: Jim Kaufman explains the concept of generalist and specialist alleles of MHC at Immune Polymorphism Workshop in New Orl…29 October 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @MRC_LMB: Day 302 of #LMB365 shows the LMB Governing Board in 1967: Hugh Huxley, John Kendrew, Max Perutz, Francis Crick, Fred Sanger an…29 October 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @dougbrown_1: Big moment for BSI - we’re with our President Prof Arne Akbar @UKHouseofLords who is giving evidence on the importance of…29 October 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorPeople often ask me; ‘what’s it like to be an academic?’, ‘How do you find it as a career?’. I just show them this… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…25 October 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @dougbrown_1: Thank you @SkyNews for the interview earlier and the chance to reiterate that we need to see greater investment in our imm…25 October 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @florian_krammer: In an awesome collaboration with @Ali_Ellebedy and Ian Wilson we found a mAb, 1G01, that inhibits and protects from a…25 October 2019

Brian Ferguson@viropractorRT @alanbrownhms: Video abstract for our new paper with @RuiZhangWUSTL and @DutcherLab. So many hours of Skype went into this structure...…24 October 2019