Bunyaviruses & vectors 🦠🕷️🦟🧫 | Senior Lecturer & Group Leader @CVRinfo 🏳️🌈 | Views are my own | Lab account: @brennanlab | PE activity on @VirusesTickCVR
Glasgow, UK
Joined March 2009
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Ben Brennan retweeted
Thanks to @BBCScotlandNews for highlighting our research efforts at the @CVRinfo, in collaboration with @UKHSA @P_H_S_Official @uniofliverpool @ISARIC1, to understand the #hantavirus outbreak 🦠🐀🚢
Ben Brennan retweeted
Since launching support for the Andes virus species of hantavirus two days ago, we've received submissions from four countries' sequencing teams. This is a testament to the rapid response of researchers, sharing real-time data. Read more in our news post: pathoplexus.org/news/2026-05…
Not often you get to say two papers dropped the same day 😱🎉🥳🍾 Incredibly proud of both — great science, amazing collaborators, and a lot of hard work 💪 #Virology #Bunyavirus #EmergingViruses
📝 SFTSV NSs protein is a novel tick antiviral RNAi suppressor — out now in PNAS 🧵#SFTSV
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25…
📝 Conserved pathogenesis of ancestral & contemporary Oropouche virus in a murine pregnancy model (led by @tilstonlunel ) — out in Nature Comms 🦟 #Oropouche
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
Ben Brennan retweeted
Proud to announce my first publication is out in @PLOSPathogens ! Huge thanks to my co-first author Wael, @brennanlab, and @castello_lab. The paper explores how tick RNA-binding proteins respond to UUKV infection, you can find the paper here dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.…
Ben Brennan retweeted
New in Nature Comms: We applied metagenomic and targeted NGS to serum samples from undiagnosed febrile patients across Uganda. This work highlights how NGS can transform viral surveillance in LMICs—especially with infrastructure now in place post-COVID. 🔗 nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
Ben Brennan retweeted
It's been refreshing working on something a little different - hantaviruses! Huge thanks to @RobertK05753862 and @florian_krammer for this opportunity 🦠
We have a new preprint on Puumalavirus infections out. This is a fantastic collaboration with Robert Krause @RobertK05753862 at @MedUniGraz . Work in my lab was spearheaded by @JordanDoesFlu (who didn't do flu this time).
Cross-binding antibodies capable of neutralizing diverse orthohantaviruses are produced in response to Puumala virus infection
medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Ben Brennan retweeted
Very proud and grateful to announce I’ve been selected for an ERA fellowship! Can’t wait to start the TASTE project in the wonderful @LabRuzek 🦠🥼thank you to everyone in the lab and at @MasarykUni for their incredible support during the application process 😊 #research #TBEV
Ben Brennan retweeted
Our study at @TheLancetInfDis demonstrated that 2023-24 Oropouche virus reassortant have increased virulence, fitness, and the ability to evade previous immunity generated by the previous Oropouche virus infection! 🦟🦠🇧🇷
Available: thelancet.com/journals/lanin…
Ben Brennan retweeted
Every time there’s a Marburg or Ebola virus outbreak, my feed instantly fills with filovirus fear porn.
It’s airborne! Deadliest virus ever! OMG IT’S IN EUROPE! Pandemic imminent!
These takes are at best wrong & at worst anti-scientific and racist.
Here are some facts.
Ben Brennan retweeted
1/13 Happy to announce our new paper on comparative negative strand RNA virus transcriptomics in Huh7 cells:
- H5N1, H1N1, RVFV, SFSV, RSV, NiV, EBOV, MARV, LASV
- time course
- web app that allows to
DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
Ben Brennan retweeted
Oropouche virus. Very #demure. Very #mindful.
Until it spreads, kills healthy adults, and causes fetal infection and death.
Re-upping this thread 🧵 below from 2 years ago, as well as links to the relevant #Oropouche literature #bunyavirus #lovevirology
A sequel to our #Lrp1 story...we have a paper out today in @PNASNews showing that #Lrp1 is important for efficient cellular infection by the #bunyavirus Oropouche virus
Ben Brennan retweeted
Registration for the one-week course on Emerging Viruses is now open @PasteurVirology @institutpasteur
Great classes @LEnjuanes @brankahorvat88 @ASFVacc @bbrennan83 @mcinerney_gerry and many others
pasteur.fr/en/education/prog…
Ben Brennan retweeted
We found 4 vials of #poliovirus vaccine candidates sent by A. Sabin to A. Lwoff in 1960 and never opened since !
We managed to sequence 3 of them and isolate 2 of them …we got some surprises… to be followed…
Ben Brennan retweeted
An excellent article in the @FT by @SarahNev about how climate change increases may increase the risk of zoonotic diseases jumping from animals to humans. It was a pleasure chatting with Sarah about this!🌎🦟🦠
Read more: ft.com/content/599c87da-7920…
Ben Brennan retweeted
Double celebration at @LabRuzek! 🎉 We celebrated Ludek's promotion to Associate Professor 👨🎓 and welcomed our new Postdoc, Alex (@Wilsonasaur), to the lab 🍻
Ben Brennan retweeted
Delighted to be taking up an NRS career researcher fellowship @NHSHResearch to study #LongCOVID and #posttreatmentLyme
@LongCovidScot @UKLyme @emcat1 @CVRinfo
cso.scot.nhs.uk/fellowship-f…
Ben Brennan retweeted
Very proud of @Wilsonasaur, who defended her thesis successfully yesterday. I saw her scientific birth as part II student in the @castello_lab, and then I co-supervised her thesis with @bbrennan83 and Alain Kohl. @Wilsonasaur, I wish you all the best for the next stage! 🎉🍾🥂
