
Our beautiful son Leo aged 4 died on 18th Sep in a freak accident. (1/5)
Jason Mercer
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@MercerLab
Pox Virologist and Systems Biologist, Virus Cell Biology Lab, @IMIBirmingham @UoBbiosciences

Our beautiful son Leo aged 4 died on 18th Sep in a freak accident. (1/5)

The main story of my PhD research project is finally out in @JCellBiol today! rupress.org/jcb/article/22… We were looking at how Vaccinia virus circumvents host immunity by disabling the autophagy machinery through depletion of sequestome-like receptors (SLRs). For a 🧵see below:







Congratulations to @laurapokorny who shows that virus binding proteins aren’t just for binding! Just out in @emboreports Thanks to all who contributed! @JemimaBurden @yorgomodis @D4V1D_4 Becky Bamford,Kendra Leigh,Pooja Sridhar,Timothy Knowles embopress.org/doi/full/10.10…


Children at Hanbury C of E First School celebrated the launch of a spectacular new play area, built to celebrate the life of one of their beloved classmates. HFS Leo was “launched” today by Leo Mercer’s family. hanbury.eschools.co.uk/web/play_area_…











