Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · 9d

Rotavirus legends at the 15th International Rotavirus symposium! 🥹

Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · 14d

First visit to our collaborators at the inspirational Center for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia! Such a privilege to see where some of the infant samples we study have come from.

2

Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · Jul 19

Thanks for another brilliant ASV annual meeting @amersocvirology.bsky.social!
The Caddy lab had a fabulous time 😍

3

Reposted by Sarah Caddy

The Roslin Institute @roslininstitute.bsky.social · Jul 10

A hybrid coronavirus, formed of cat and dog coronaviruses, caused a severe outbreak of disease among cats in Cyprus, researchers found.

Their work, in Nature, showed how this new virus was able to cause widespread cases of Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP) among the island’s cats.

Coronavirus causes fatal disease outbreak in cats | The Roslin Institute | The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies

A harmful strain of coronavirus has caused a fast-spreading outbreak of a harmful feline disease.

edin.ac

27 31

Reposted by Sarah Caddy

Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · Jul 2

What are the professional and personal benefits of being on our Editorial Boards? Here's what some of our members had to say about their experience. Journal of General Virology is currently recruiting- find out more about the available vacancies at: microb.io/Vacancies.

1 2

Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · May 21

Huge congratulations to my postdoc mentor - Leo James FRS!

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.bsky.social · May 20

Congratulations to LMB Group Leaders Leo James, Greg Jefferis & Marta Zlatic who have been elected Fellows of the @royalsociety.org!

Congratulations also to the #LMBAlumni joining them: John Briggs, Graham Hatfull & Baljit Khakh.

Read more: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/leo-james-gr...

#LMBNews

Leo James, Greg Jefferis and Marta Zlatic

4

Reposted by Sarah Caddy

Julie Pfeiffer @jkpfeiff.bsky.social · Apr 28

Terry Dermody and I wrote an op-ed about chronic diseases ("Make America Healthy Again"), the role of viral infections, and how virologists can help. www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...

Terrence S. Dermody and Julie K. Pfeiffer: To tackle chronic disease, turn to the virologists

Despite the United States being a global leader in many areas, Americans are not healthy. Life expectancy is lower than in other industrialized nations,...

www.post-gazette.com

14 31

Reposted by Sarah Caddy

Neeltje van Doremalen @neeltje.bsky.social · Apr 22

🚨Job alert 🚨

I am looking for an enthusiastic & talented postdoctoral researcher to join our research team in Hamilton, MT, USA.

If you are interested in
🦠 emerging respiratory viruses (BSL2-4),
🔬mucosal immunology, and
🐁 in vivo studies,

Check out:
www.training.nih.gov/jobs/pdpmire...

www.training.nih.gov

10 11

Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · Apr 18

Cheers to our 3y reappointment on tenure track - so grateful to be on this journey at #Cornell alongside Assistant Profs Colleen Lau and Andrew Flyak 🤩

1 9

Reposted by Sarah Caddy

Hensley Lab @scottehensley.bsky.social · Apr 16

After 8 months of peer review, our manuscript was published today @nature.com showing that bovine H5N1 viruses bind poorly to human-type sialic acid receptors. We now know that the virus is only 1 HA substitution away from efficiently binding human receptors.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bovine H5N1 binds poorly to human-type sialic acid receptors - Nature

Nature - Bovine H5N1 binds poorly to human-type sialic acid receptors

www.nature.com

13 100 260

Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · Apr 16

View from my office. What the heck April in Ithaca?! Never imagined I’d be missing spring weather in England…

1 3

Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · Apr 11

Fame, Cornell style: news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
❤️ Baker Institute for Animal Health

Virologist builds on Baker Institute’s 75-year groundbreaking history | Cornell Chronicle

Dr. Sarah Caddy conducts innovative research on canine viruses at the Baker Institute for Animal Health.

news.cornell.edu

7

Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · Apr 5

Such a pleasure to visit my inspirational #rotavirus mentor Ulrich Desselberger at home with his wife Elizabeth. I can’t imagine a kinder or wiser virologist.

1 7

Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · Apr 2

Fabulous talk on 30,000 year old viruses by @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social at #microbio25. Thanks Charlotte!

1 6

Reposted by Sarah Caddy

Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · Apr 1

We hope that you’re enjoying Annual Conference! If you have ever benefited from our events, grants or networks, consider publishing with us: journals revenue supports all that we do for our community. Please submit to give back.
microb.io/3o6DvhI

4 5

Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · Mar 30

Excited to be on a red-eye flight to LHR for @microbiologysociety.org! Travelling without kids is a cinch! microbiologysociety.org/event/annual...

Annual Conference 2025

microbiologysociety.org

1 4

Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · Mar 28

Great to hear this rotavirus paper discussed on #TWiV @microbetv.bsky.social. We covered this in a recent lab meeting and agree the graphical abstract is very eye-catching! www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Innate immune sensing of rotavirus by intestinal epithelial cells leads to diarrhea

Hou et al. demonstrate in an infant mouse model that innate immune sensing of enteric viruses induces IFN-λ signaling, which downregulates an apical chloride exchanger that leads to increased intestin...

www.cell.com

1 1

Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · Mar 25

3/3 abstracts for ASV 2025 accepted in my lab today 🤩 Thanks to the abstract reviewing team! Montreal here we come…

2

Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · Mar 22

This conversation with Bill Gates is now several months old, but is highly worth listening to. Great discussion about rotavirus vaccines. #inspiring. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Bill Gates on vaccines, conspiracy theories and the pleasures of pickleball

Podcast Episode · The Life Scientific · 20/08/2024 · 36m

podcasts.apple.com

1

Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · Mar 21

The maternal antibody paradox: how are these antibodies both good and bad? Excited to share our new insights for rotavirus vaccines
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Mechanisms of maternal antibody interference to rotavirus vaccination

Maternal antibodies (MatAbs) are transferred transplacentally during pregnancy and through breast milk after birth to provide protection whilst the neonatal immune response is immature. However, MatAb...

www.biorxiv.org

3 8

Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · Mar 21

Glad to have played a small part in this big story! Studying the differences between CD28 in humans and mice reveal reasons for the disastrous 2006 trial www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

www.biorxiv.org

1 1 1

Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · Feb 20

Just a casual Wednesday afternoon with my 4y old in Upstate New York #brightside.

5

Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · Feb 12

We are looking for new colleagues! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29722 I can’t recommend the Microbiology and Immunology Department at Cornell Ithaca highly enough.

Cornell University, Microbiology & Immunology

Full service online faculty recruitment and application management system for academic institutions worldwide. We offer unique solutions tailored for academic communities.

academicjobsonline.org

2

Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · Jan 23

Glad to be spending the day at SUNY Upstate talking about wierd and wonderful antibodies. Syracuse really feels like a metropolis after Ithaca!

5

Sarah Caddy @drsarahcaddy.bsky.social · Jan 11

Yes it’s cold, but we love Ithaca! Taughannock Falls were incredible yesterday.

1 5