Dr Steph Rainey

Excited that our Wolbachia-based strategy to block dengue has been shortlisted for the Prix Galien UK Award! 🦟🧬 Proud to be part of this work in Sinkins’ group at @CVRinfo—already showing real impact with major dengue reductions in Malaysia. gla.ac.uk/news/headline_…

@GeezaBreakPro Amazing thanks for such a speedy reply!

@stephmrainey The panto runs approx 1hr 15 so should be done approx 3.15 :)

Our 2025 Panto , The Snow Queen, is in full swing but did you know we are already taking bookings for Panto 2026? Contact the team to book now as we tell a tale as old as time in our very own version of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST!

📣Come work with us! We are looking for a Research Assistant/Associate in Data Analysis, for @pfizer-funded research project focused on effectiveness of maternal #RSV vaccination in infants in Scotland. More: bit.ly/3Va7yCd Enq to: @louisa_pollock1 Closing: 17 Sept 25

Very happy to share this news. It means a lot after a hard few years with mat leave, COVID and everything else life throws at you. Finally feel like I have my mojo back!

🎉 Massive congratulations to the Sinkins' Group for being shortlisted for a #PrixGalien UK Award for their groundbreaking Wolbachia-based #dengue virus control strategy! 👏 gla.ac.uk/research/az/cv… @GalienFdn @UofGMVLS @UofGSii

We are delighted to announce that Professor Emma Thomson @emcat1 has been appointed as the new Director of the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research @CVRinfo! 🔬🦠 @UKRI_News @The_MRC Read more➡️ gla.ac/455EjH0

@LymeResourceCtr He throughly enjoyed it!

@stephmrainey What an amazing voiceover and a job well done! Please thank your son very much from all of us at LRC!

My youngest is a magnet for ticks so helping him understand what to look for is really important. As for the oldest, never had a tick, but he did lend his beautiful voice to this amazing animation 🥰. Such an amazing example of engagement done right

@RingGo_parking contacting you is a nightmare! Can you explain to me why my parking permit (which I have had for 4 years) was turned down due to ‘name differences’ when I included my marriage certificate?!? Please advise how I can rectify this *today* as parking is astronomical

📢 Our team is seeking an experienced and motivated researcher to join an MRC funded project on mitochondrial biology in Plasmodium shared between Glasgow and Cambridge. Go hear: gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/ Search our vacancies -> Search by Vacancy Reference 154710 Come join us!

Happy to share that my new paper is out in @MDPIOpenAccess mdpi.com/1999-4915/16/8… In this paper we demonstrate that negative sense RNA virus Bunyamwera has a negative impact on Wolbachia density in Ae. aegypti mosquitoes. Thanks to everyone involved, especially @stephmrainey!

I can’t recommend this enough. Apply for this PhD program for working with @serdelor in Trieste, Italy. You won’t regret it! ⬇️

@JaneyGodley Real

I have 294k followers but are you real? Say hello #janeygodley so I can I weed out the bots thanks

This is the end of the world as we know it, if this is reproducible! The new era of functional modeling has begun. I took a transcription factor with an unknown structure and folded it with its recognition sequence embedded in longer DNA. AlphaFold3 accurately positioned the transcription factor.

Only last month we celebrated inauguration of Dr @GhassanAbuSitt1 as @UofGlasgow Rector. Now he's being prevented from entering other European countries to speak on situation in Palestine. @David_Cameron you must speak out on our citizens & #TeamUofG being treated this way.

@fayewatson94 No!!! I love a trifle

Mosquitoes are coming… Good write up in Guardian today on new analysis that suggests >4 billion to be at risk of mosquito borne infections in coming decades. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Really excited to share my first first-author virology paper and it’s a big one! Check out our preprint biorxiv.org/content/10.110… where we present a key evolutionary process that allows the transmission of vector-borne bunyaviruses between arthropod and vertebrate hosts.

NEW | PhD Studentship with @CVRinfo (@GroveLab) & @Pirbright_Inst (@MaringerLab) Using machine learning to identify the molecular determinants of vector-born transmission in viruses. 📆 Start date: Oct 24 ⏰ Duration: 3.5 yrs 📢 Closing date: 2 Apr 24 gla.ac.uk/media/Media_10…