Benjamin Nilsson-Payant

After a long hiatus I’ve now moved over to the blue place. Come and find me over there for news from the Nilsson-Payant lab! ben-nilsson-payant.bsky.social

Get ready! Negative Strand RNA Virus meeting #NSV2025 registration will open soon! Co-organized with @wendybarclay11, @vsv512 and Paul Duprex. It will be in vibrant Montpellier, south of France, in June 2025! Please RT

This year I have two projects available through the BBSRC-MIBTP at Warwick. Both focus on investigating the viral lifecycle of important RNA viruses. Please get in touch if you'd like to hear more. warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/…

Finally out! Here we show that SARS-CoV-2 N protein binds to cellular stress granule proteins G3BP1/2, not only to block SGs, but also to facilitate the efficient translation of viral mRNAs. Fantastic work by doctoral student Siwen Long! nature.com/articles/s4146…

@DanDepledge Congrats!

One of the many amazing things about having worked in the @Dunn_School!

Hey folks. A while ago @BenjaminNilsson and I pitched 'recent advances in bunyavirus research' as a special issue topic to @BiochemSoc (and @PPPublishing). As we announced at the recent #BUNYA2024 conference in Leeds, they agreed!

@harrywilliamsmx Disappointed that discoviruses didn’t make the cut?

The new WHO pathogen prioritization is out! Interesting to see who’s in and who’s out… who.int/publications/m…

@krischuns Great thanks might give it a try then!

@BenjaminNilsson Not First-Hand but I was told it's very good

now that Adobe Creative Cloud is dramatically raising their subscription prizes, does anyone have any favourite Illustrator alternatives for preparing figures etc?

Thank you @JeremyKeown1 and @fodorlab for hosting me in Warwick and Oxford. It was great to talk science, catch up with old and new friends and relive nice old memories @Dunn_School and @LincolnOutreach

@DBM003 @ScienceNews Congrats man, this is really cool!

PhD and tech positions available in Jeremy’s new lab! Interested in structural biology, negative sense rna viruses and rna polymerases? This is the place to be!

Using virion vRNPs, together with purified proteins, we have, for the first time, recreated the switch from influenza virus transcription to replication, AND a full cycle of genome replication inside a test tube🧪@AmandaZihanZhu @haitian_fan @PLOSBiology ➡️journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

📢 Exciting job opportunity !! A postdoc position is available in my lab at @OxfordStrubi @NDMOxford @UniofOxford to study influenza virus transcription, genome replication, nuclear export and assembly in a stimulating lab environment. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

Thrilled to share our first collab with one of my many amazing @nyulangone colleagues, @JefBoeke, describing an innovative approach to create Genetically Engineered Mouse Models (GEMMs) used here to render mice naturally susceptible to #SARSCoV2. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Creating resistance to avian influenza infection through genome editing of ANP32 gene family. Congrats. Many years complex discovery science work from idea suggested during reemergence of H5N1 in 2004/5.The broader implications of this important for debate nature.com/articles/s4146…

@DanDepledge @beatesodeik @AnnaCliffe @OrenKobiler @OuwendijkWerner I’m also still looking for an invite!

Thanks #ASMicrobe for offering childcare so this science couple can be in the same place at the same time!