Virologist at the University of Nottingham. Researching virus entry pathways and antiviral immunity
Joined February 2012
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5 Dec 2024
Wisteria floribunda agglutinin enhances Zaire ebolavirus entry through interactions at specific N-linked glycosylation sites on the virus glycoprotein complex biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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31 May 2024
Congratulations to Dr Richard Brown at PEI for a great paper on SARS-CoV-2 published today in PNAS news.rub.de/english/press-re…
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10 Oct 2022
Our study on the development of a simple low-cost pathway to accurately subtype #HepatitisC in sub-Saharan Africa has just been published in the Journal of Medical Virology. 👇🏽 @PostdocPat @JonathanKBall @AlexWTarr @UoNLifeSci @OneVirology
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Alex Tarr retweeted
16 Dec 2021
Another preprint from our group! How to easily sub-type the incredibly diverse #HepatitisC #virus with genomes from Sub-Saharan Africa that most commercial assays fail upon. @PostdocPat @JonathanKBall @UoNLifeSci #HCV 👇🏽
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Alex Tarr retweeted
18 Jun 2021
@nottmhospitals and @UoNLifeSci researchers report rare bifacial weakness with paraesthesias variant of Guillain-Barré syndrome in four cases following ChAdOx1 SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. doi.org/10.1002/ana.26144 Vaccination remains extremely safe and the benefits far outweigh the risks.
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Alex Tarr retweeted
16 Jun 2021
Our Retrospective SARS-2 screening work is now published! Several missed cases, incl one of the first known community transmissions in the UK. Great collaborative effort with @JonathanKBall, @PostdocPat, @Theo_Tsoleridis, @mattloose, #NHS and many more!
doi.org/10.1099/jgv.0.001595
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Alex Tarr retweeted
10 Nov 2020
Chuffed to have what might sadly be our final chapter on the #HCV p7 channel accepted at @eLife
Huge team effort, many not on twitter, but thanks to those on here @OncoVirus_Leeds @ToshanaFoster @AbiBloy @HarrisLabLeeds @AlexWTarr @Stonehouse_Lab
doi.org/10.7554/eLife.52555
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23 Jun 2020
Yes, unexpectedly found myself working on a serology study on SARS-CoV-2! Pseudotypes with @rich_urbanowicz, we're rushing to get this completed and submitted...
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23 Jun 2020
Congrats to all involved, this is a really interesting study and a great resource for the HCV research community
19 Jun 2020
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19 Jun 2020
19 Jun 2020
Congratulations to the @UoNLifeSci team for today completing antibody testing for recruitment to the #covid19 #vaccine trial @AlexWTarr @paddy_tighe5 #Neiloldfield #davidturner @NottmBRC @UoNresearch @UoNPressOffice
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Alex Tarr retweeted
15 Jun 2020
New paper published in Journal of Clinical Virology 'Nanopore sequencing from extraction-free direct PCR of dried serum spots for portable hepatitis B virus drug-resistance typing' bit.ly/2YAGgaC @stuartastbury @AlexWTarr
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Alex Tarr retweeted
2 Jun 2020
A project we started back in 2016, before extraction-free amplification was all the rage! 'Nanopore sequencing from extraction-free direct PCR of dried serum spots for portable hepatitis B virus drug-resistance typing'
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Alex Tarr retweeted
29 May 2020
Latest research just published by the @UoNLifeSci @UoNresearch virology group on human bocavirus infections.
29 May 2020
Pleased to get this study on human #bocavirus published recently with @ViroGem and @AlexWTarr; plenty of it about and severe in a few instances unfortunately:
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Alex Tarr retweeted
8 May 2020
A small milestone reached in #Covid_19 @UoNresearch today - 600th #Nottingham sample prepared for antibody testing by @AlexWTarr and #PaddyTighe at @UoNLifeSci virology labs.
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Alex Tarr retweeted
Health officials say a third UK case of #coronavirus has been confirmed in a patient who caught it in an Asian country other than China.
The person's being treated in a specialist unit.
Jonathan Ball is Professor of emerging viruses at The University of #Nottingham:
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31 Jan 2020
Barney King from @OneVirology @UniNottinghamIC telling us about 'hard to pseudotype' viruses with #HepatitisC as as a model. Even clones within same patient behave differently!
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23 Jan 2020
This about as current as it gets: Pseudotypes used to assess cell entry of 2019-nCoV via ACE2 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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