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Nelly Mak

@nellymak.bsky.social

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Postdoc in the Jolly lab @UCL studying T cell reprogramming by HIV-1 🇬🇧 | PhD on bat antiviral IFITMs @Edinburgh🦇 | virus-host interactions 🦠 | 🏠 Hong Kong Twitter @NellyMak_sc (for Sky Follower Bridge)

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Nelly Mak @nellymak.bsky.social · Jun 16

Thanks @stratechscientific.bsky.social for expanding my @giantmicrobes.bsky.social collection! Loving my new ssRNA friend :)

Stratech Scientific @stratechscientific.bsky.social · Jun 16

Congratulations to @nellymak.bsky.social from @jollylab.bsky.social our @giantmicrobes.bsky.social
winner from last week’s #LondonECRsymposium!! 🥳🎉
@london-immuno.bsky.social 🧬

#RNA #HIVresearch #infectionandimmunology #biotech #bioscience #lifesciences #microbiology #lablife

Reposted by Nelly Mak

RM @rsbmilne.bsky.social · May 8

Virtual Virology is back - our first ever phage session. Do join us...

Nelly Mak @nellymak.bsky.social · Mar 24

H5N1 made it’s jump into sheep in the UK 🐑 #zoonosis

www.gov.uk/government/n...

Influenza of avian origin confirmed in a sheep in Yorkshire

Influenza of avian origin (H5N1) has been confirmed in a single sheep in Yorkshire.

Nelly Mak @nellymak.bsky.social · Feb 3

Got promoted to @richardsloanlab.bsky.social alumni last week 🎉🍾
Thank you Toshana and Paul for joining the people-who’s-read-my-thesis club, and for good discussions at the viva! #phdone

Nelly Mak @nellymak.bsky.social · Jan 29

Time to make myself useful with the new title and new project!

Jolly Lab @jollylab.bsky.social · Jan 29

Congratulations to Dr @nellymak.bsky.social who returned to us victoriously from her PhD viva in Edinburgh! Fantastic job! We're very excited that she is starting her postdoc journey with us! 🥳

Nelly Mak @nellymak.bsky.social · Dec 29

My first first-author paper is out! If you are curious about how alternative splicing fine-tunes the antiviral specificity of IFITMs in horseshoe bats, make this the last paper you will read in 2024⬇️

Sloan Lab @richardsloanlab.bsky.social · Dec 28

Our lab's latest paper published in PLoS Pathogens! Looking at functional diversity of antiviral IFITMs in horseshoe bats doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Led by PhD student @nellymak.bsky.social in collaboration with @batresearch.bsky.social
@uoe-eid.bsky.social @edinuni-irr.bsky.social #Immunosky #Virosky

Alternative splicing expands the antiviral IFITM repertoire in Chinese rufous horseshoe bats

Author summary Zoonotic transmission occurs when viruses ‘jump’ from animals into human. This may lead to viral outbreaks such as the COVID-19 pandemic, posing a significant threat to public health. B...

Nelly Mak @nellymak.bsky.social · Nov 29

I joined @jollylab.bsky.social at UCL as a postdoc this week! Still getting used to being in central London but I won’t complain about having pubs/restaurants only a few minutes away.

Nelly Mak @nellymak.bsky.social · Nov 25

Successfully migrated all my previous tweets to this account using github.com/marcomaroni-... - woohoo! Seem to have lost the original posting dates for now but at least you can find out more about me by scrolling down👇🏻

GitHub - marcomaroni-github/twitter-to-bluesky: Import all tweets exported from X/Twitter to a Bluesky account.

Import all tweets exported from X/Twitter to a Bluesky account. - marcomaroni-github/twitter-to-bluesky

Nelly Mak @nellymak.bsky.social · Nov 25

Guaranteed excellent supervisors - apply! https://twitter.com/RichardSloanLab/status/1857262571138453756

Nelly Mak @nellymak.bsky.social · Nov 25

Thank you Dr. Marjolein Kikkert for inviting me to present at their virology lab meeting in-person at @UniLeiden today! Great way to wrap up my Edinburgh-Leiden jointly funded PhD. 📷: “The One Who Waits” in the LUMC hospital lobby.

Nelly Mak @nellymak.bsky.social · Nov 25

Lunchtime break from thesis writing. My toggl tracker says I’ve already spent 150 hours on it 😳 ✨Featuring very cute Lumie socks from @promega - thanks @MichaelaNoskov5 @promegauk !

Nelly Mak @nellymak.bsky.social · Nov 25

Thanks to everyone who came to my talk and for all the questions/suggestions!! Here’s a photo of me and THE IFITM experts @YountLabOSU @compton_lab #ASV2024

Nelly Mak @nellymak.bsky.social · Nov 25

Catch my talk at *2:45pm Union station C today*. I’ll be talking about our preprint but ALSO some new computational stuff on diversification strategies of immune genes🤓 #ASV2024

Nelly Mak @nellymak.bsky.social · Nov 25

Here we goooo #ASV2024 Great start with the satellite symposiums this morning. Loved @hannahkfrank’s talk on whether bats are special - they are (I knew it!) 🤩

Nelly Mak @nellymak.bsky.social · Nov 25

We made it to Columbus!! Got to get some rest now so I’ll be recharged for the satellite symposium tomorrow morning #ASV2024

Nelly Mak @nellymak.bsky.social · Nov 25

Me & @oceanchau left Edinburgh >24h ago to travel to #ASV2024. After a missed connection, 3 flight cancellations, 10h at the airport and 2h running around for a hotel room…we are still in NYC without our bags. I hope we make it there for our talks😭 @AmerSocVirol

Nelly Mak @nellymak.bsky.social · Nov 25

The #3MT competition has been an incredibly fun and rewarding journey! Thank you to my very supportive friends and family, and congratulations to all who competed today🫶🏻 I guess I’ll go work on my actual thesis now…🙈
#UOE3MT24 @UoE_IAD @EdinburghUni

Nelly Mak @nellymak.bsky.social · Nov 25

I’ll be taking part in the Edinburgh 3MT finals tomorrow along with 8 other brilliant finalists from @cmvm_research @EdinUniCAHSSres @ColSciEng . Come join us - good content guaranteed 😉 https://twitter.com/UoE_IAD/status/1796120304630026447

Nelly Mak @nellymak.bsky.social · Nov 25

A bit late but yesterday’s #GlasgowVirologyWorkshop was again a great meeting with lovely people. Best parts were Sole from @RichardSloanLab winning the best talk, the ceilidh and finally meeting @lucygthorne :)

Nelly Mak @nellymak.bsky.social · Nov 25

My little cousin (10yo) has been obsessed with drawing ducks recently, and she drew me this yesterday🐥🥼

Nelly Mak @nellymak.bsky.social · Nov 25

Heard from many brilliant PhD students in the college heat of the Three Minute Thesis competition @3MT_official today. See you at the Edinburgh university finals! 😉
@UoE_IAD @cmvm_research

Nelly Mak @nellymak.bsky.social · Nov 25

Another fantastic @MicrobioSoc conference done🎉 Feels very different this year with the conference centre just a bus ride away from my flat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Thanks for all the good chats and especially those who visited my poster! #Microbio24

Nelly Mak @nellymak.bsky.social · Nov 25

And if you’re interested in a very cool cyanobacteria-derived broad-spectrum antiviral, my amazing colleague Sole Lancerin is presenting at 12:21 @Kilsyth (level 0) today @RichardSloanLab 🧫🦠

Nelly Mak @nellymak.bsky.social · Nov 25

I’ll be at *poster B416* today to tell you all about bat IFITMs (as always) AND a recent project on functional diversification of immune genes by duplication & splicing! 🦇🧬✂️ #Microbio24

Nelly Mak @nellymak.bsky.social · Nov 25

🙌🏻THANK YOU to everyone who made this possible! @jtaylor_tweets @NJTemperton | @BatResearch @ZJE_institute for cool bat cell work | @compton_lab for my wonderful time at @theNCI | & @RichardSloanLab @EdinUni_IRR for the opportunity to take on this PhD in the first place! 7/7🧵