If you're interest in what my group and I are upto, why not give @HepEHour a follow for all things virology! 😁 Some really cool research to come out over the next months! 😉
I'm Kevin (@KevPurves) and I'm a postdoc with @NerdyNic's brilliant group! 🦠🦇😷 Currently interested in SARS-CoV-2 persistence💩 and intend to shift towards HEV🐖 Also plan to merge my postdoc skills with my marine and viral ecology background🐟🌊 A fan of rambling & rugby 🏉🧗♂️
Doe-lighted to announce our #OneHealth project is now published! 🚀 A fantastic collaboration between @HepEHour & @UCD_Wildlife, featuring extensive lab and fieldwork. Dive into our research on #PublicHealth and #WildlifeResearch 🦌🦠. Read the paper here: https://t.co/pMv16b5bHR
We're thrilled to share that our study reporting #SARSCoV2 seropositivity in urban deer in Dublin, Ireland, will be published in @CDC_NCEZID🦌✨ A huge group effort involving many hours unforgettable field work! #OneHealth#PublicHealth#WildlifeResearch
We also ventured to Yorkshire ☀️ to celebrate @HBrown0890's special day 💒🍾 We traded in our lab coats for glad rags & made some core group memories #ScienceInStyle#ResearchAndRomance
@KevPurves paper has been published in @SciTotEnv‼️ This study compares decay characteristics of #SARSCoV2 & MHV in #wastewater💧, highlighting MHV's potential as a surrogate for SARS-CoV-2 #research Congrats to the team! https://t.co/q20nsFwebq
Our paper describing the decay of infectious SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater is out!
@NerdyNic@laurasalamicro @NiamhMartin9 @KevPurves@liamrey@statsepi
Decay of RNA and infectious SARS-CoV-2 and murine hepatitis virus in w... https://t.co/6OVc03nEFb
PhD studentship opportunity!
🌊Exciting opportunity to join the Acclimatize 2 team
🌊Fully funded PhD studentship with @WimGMeijer
🌊For more details visit: https://t.co/17kcnzdgjR
@UCDGS@UCD_SBBS@UCDCivEng
We are hiring!
We're looking for enthusiastic team players to join our exciting new project: Acclimatize 2
Research Scientist & Research Assistant w/background in environmental biology, microbiology or similar
Research Scientist w/background in civil engineering or similar
Regional endothermy in the smalltooth sandtiger shark?! – and what this means for the extinct megalodon!l 🦈🦈🔥. Published today in Biology Letters, led by @haleydolton with fab collaborative team.
https://t.co/2D7P3adRIo. 1/4
Today at @ucddublin we’re celebrating 2️⃣0️⃣ years of incredible research at @UCD_Conway 🥳
The #UCDConwayFestival2023 will be taking place today & tomorrow, with some incredible lectures & a poster 📄 session of some of the current work at the institute
#TheConwayInstitute
And you will find me at poster stand 0️⃣7️⃣2️⃣ this afternoon so come and let me chew your ear off about polarised cells 🧫 & Hep E!! 🦠
#TheConwayFestival2023
Did I wear a green suit to represent the Irish division at @MicrobioSoc Young Microbiologist of the year competition??
Yes, yes I did 🇮🇪☘️
So honoured to have been amongst the shortlisted candidates today, all of the talks were incredible! Huge congrats to the winners 🥳
I am absolutely thrilled to announce that I have joined @NerdyNic at #UCD as an Irish Research Council #postdoc! I will be developing sequencing methods for #RNA#virus detection🧬🦠 I will also be collaborating with #Citizen#Scientists to discover novel viruses 🌟
Deer in Dublin’s Phoenix Park are the first deer in Europe shown to have been infected with the coronavirus that causes #COVID19, likely a result of regular human contact. https://t.co/KCpes9Cvmv
Very nice commentary on our preprint describing SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in the Phoenix Park deer. A great collaboration between @ucdvetmed@UCDSBES@UCD_Conway@CEPHR_UCD and of course the brilliant @UCD_Wildlife 🦌