@Swanson_Chad

Scientist and lecturer @KingsCollegeLon. My lab studies how antiviral RNA binding proteins work. All views are my own.

kcl.ac.uk/lsm/research/divisions/diiid/departments/infectious/research/swanson/index.asp
Joined November 2017
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We are hiring!🥼 Long-term post-doc w/ #ukriflf funding @uclcancer Help us detect&target preinvasive disease via the immune system Bespoke T cell omics assays World-leading multi-disciplinary collaborators Unique multi-cancer cohorts @UKRI_News jobs.ac.uk/job/CRC970/resear…
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Thrilled to share our lab’s first paper out now in @cellcellpress. We identify how a conserved family of Shigella virulence factors inhibits interferon by blocking calcium signalling, promoting virulence cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…
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The @castello_lab is seeking for a motivated postdoc at Research associate or assistant level . Our work aims to understand how cellular RNA-binding proteins regulate virus infection. Application here: gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/ Ref 074888. Closing date 12th Jan.
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zippity-ZAP⚡️! Our new paper is out @PLOSBiology! I might be biased, but so is the dinucleotide composition of the mammalian interferome 😁, thanks in part to ZAP! journals.plos.org/plosbiolog… Congrats fellow co-first authors @VirusMuser & @NardusMollentze & members of @WilsonLabCVR!

The antiviral state has shaped the CpG composition of the vertebrate interferome to avoid self-ta...

Our cells are poised to combat viral infection through antiviral effectors. This study proposes that as well as targeting viral RNAs, antiviral effectors sometimes target host mRNAs too; over...

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1/2 Our review article about genome composition biases in RNA viruses is now online: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…. TL:DR (it is long): 1. Composition biases occur at mono- and di- nucleotide level and beyond, at amino acid level and codon pairs.
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Chad Swanson retweeted
The Grey Lab@lab_grey8 Jan 2020
A preprint paper from our lab, showing the role of ZAP during HCMV infection! The name of the first author should be Yao-Tang Lin though - correction in progress. #BioRxiv #Preprint #HCMV #ZAP
bioRxiv@biorxivpreprint8 Jan 2020
Human cytomegalovirus evades ZAP detection by suppressing CpG dinucleotides in the major immediate early genes. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #bioRxiv
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CpG dinucleotides inhibit HIV-1 replication through zinc finger antiviral protein (ZAP)-dependent and -independent mechanisms jvi.asm.org/content/early/20…. Excited to have some of my reseach published, thank you to everyone involved!
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Woof!!! Bone up on this!!! KHNYN (“K9”?) puts the bite in ZAP, and barks the command for #CpG-containing #HIV-1 to heel! @stuartjdneil @Swanson_Chad Collaborative research like an Iditarod sled dog team @KingsCollegeLon biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Absorbing and engaging performance of @benolivermusic’s #HearingHIV at @TurnerSims today, part of @unisouthampton #SOTSEF Connecting science+music 💥 @ArtsUniSouth @TheWorkersUnion @UoSMusic @UoSMedia
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Are you interested in studying an #intercalatedBSc in #infectious diseases & #immunobiology or any of our toher subject areas here at @kingsmedicine? Join us for our Intercalated BSc Information Fair on Friday 7 December. More information here: bit.ly/2FNNP7J
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Great to see King's alumni Rosalind Franklin among those nominated to feature on the new £50 note. @KingsCollegeLon @kingsmedicine #womeninscience #RosalindFranklin bbc.co.uk/news/business-4634…
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"We need to rethink how we make flu vaccines in general and the only way to get there is basic research." --@SCOTTeHENSLEY xitter.cf/NBCNightlyNews/status/…
NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas
@NBCNightlyNews16 Feb 2018
The CDC said Thursday that while the flu vaccine is only 25% effective in adults, it protects 59% of the children who are vaccinated. MORE: nbcnews.to/2CoOlBU
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Delighted to announce our next gig! #HearingHIV with @benolivermusic and @Swanson_Chad, Thursday 15th February, 7:30pm, Guy’s Chapel, King’s College London. workersunionensemble.eventbr… for free tickets #NewMusic
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