Introducing ADDovenom to postgraduates in Brazil
Johara Stringari, a Research Associate working on ADDovenom at the University of Bristol, gave a presentation on snake venom to students on the Postgraduate Program for Genetics and Biochemistry at the Federal University of Uberlândia in Brazil on 17 November 2022. Johara’s talk – Snake venoms: a new generation of therapeutic strategies – was the […]
ADDovenom attends IST 2022
Members of the ADDovenom team have been highlighting the work of ADDovenom at the 21st World Congress of the International Society on Toxinology (IST) in Abu Dhabi (18-21 October 2022). Dr Renaud Vincentelli (Aix-Marseille University) gave a ‘flash talk’ during which he spoke about the aims and objectives of ADDovenom, and his poster about the […]
ADDovenom team take part in research showcase in Bristol
Members of the EU-funded ADDovenom team have been talking to the public about their work as part of the FUTURES festival, a celebration of research and innovation, held on Brunel’s historic ship, the S.S. Great Britain, in Bristol on 30 September 2022. The event involved interactive and hands-on demonstrations, and the team showcased how traditional […]
ADDovenom team gather in Marseille for annual meeting
Researchers working on the ADDovenom project met for their annual conference in Marseille, France (12-13 September), to give updates on progress made since the inaugural meeting in Bristol in 2021. The first day was devoted to updates from each of the work package leads, while the second day saw many of the project’s early career researchers giving […]
Researcher Spotlight: Dora Buzas
For our Researcher Spotlight features, we interview members of the ADDovenom research team, to find out about their interests, their contributions to the project, and their hopes for the future of venom research. Here, we speak with Dora Buzas, a PhD Student at the University of Bristol. Can you tell us briefly about your own […]
LSTM team publish article on eliciting an antibody response that recognises snake venom
Researchers at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, including several working on the ADDovenom project, have published the article Virus-like particles displaying conserved toxin epitopes stimulate polyspecific, murine antibody responses capable of snake venom recognition in Scientific Reports. The authors “sought to investigate whether linear venom epitopes displayed on virus like particles can stimulate an antibody response […]
Researcher Spotlight: Becky Edge
For our Researcher Spotlight features, we interview members of the ADDovenom research team, to find out about their interests, their contributions to the project, and their hopes for the future of venom research. Here, we speak with Becky Edge, a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the Centre for Snakebite Research and Interventions at Liverpool School of […]
JOB VACANCY: Research Assistant, LSTM
** Applications are now closed ** Would you like to join our international, multi-disciplinary team of researchers who are dedicated to developing novel protein-based snakebite treatments? The Centre for Snakebite Research and Interventions (CSRI) at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine are seeking to recruit a Research Assistant to work on the ADDovenom project. This […]
EVENT: Venoms – Drugs and Antidotes
ADDovenom researcher Nick Casewell (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine) will be one of the speakers for the Academic Drug Discovery Consortium‘s latest ‘Things You Need To Know’ webinar which takes place on 16 June. This event will: “explore the career pathways and research activities of Steve Trim (founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Venomtech Ltd, a […]
Researcher Spotlight: Thomas Crasset
For our Researcher Spotlight features, we interview members of the ADDovenom research team, to find out about their interests, their contributions to the project, and their hopes for the future of venom research. Here, we speak with Thomas Crasset, who is undertaking a Master’s internship at the Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, University of Liège. Can you tell […]