New research out in @NatureComms, funded by @NIHRMaudsleyBRC & @NIH, has found that #DNA sequences which originate from ancient viral infections contribute to susceptibility for psychiatric disorders like #schizophrenia, #bipolar disorder & #depression.

👉kcl.ac.uk/news/ancient-v…

@powell_tim_r, @TheNixonLab and myself wrote a piece for the @ConversationUK to explain what our research on human endogenous retroviruses mean for Psychiatry (and also what it DOESN'T mean!) We hope you enjoy it! theconversation.com/depression-sch…

Some good news heading into a solemn weekend - earlier this week I received a letter signed by @HeartBobH informing me of my promotion to Associate Professor of Clinical #Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. @wcmcpathology 1/4

'@KingsIoPPN researchers Dr Tim Powell @powell_tim_r and Dr Rodrigo Duarte @3RDuarte join Prof Douglas Nixon to discuss their new study into ancient viral DNA sequences known as HERVs, and psychiatric disorders: maudsleybrc.nihr.ac.uk/posts/2024/may… @ConversationUK

poster 118 - Our upcoming work of how TEs can make some human “Elite” - spontaneous controller of HIV, which goes long way if we think how our ancestors eventually repressed the retroviruses (Endogenous now)
An odyssey from @CedricFeschotte and @TheNixonLab lab
#EMBOMobileGenome

🙌 Thank you, @TheNixonLab, @mlbendall, and @cellstoshell, for organizing such an incredible workshop!👏 It's inspiring to witness the power of interdisciplinary research at its best! Thanks to @WCM_ID & @WeillCornell for fostering such collaborations! @powell_tim_r @KingsIoPPN

Congratulations to our newly minted MSc, Phoebe Fei! Phoebe has been doing some excellent work looking at HERVs in uveal melanoma and metastasis, and we are so proud of her!

Welcoming Dr. Fauci @WeillCornell with Dr. Ndhlovu, Dr. Nixon, and our ID Division Chief Dr. Gulick for the 2023 Ralph Nachman MD Distinguished Visiting Professor 🎉🎉

@ndhlovulab @TheNixonLab @WCM_ID #HIV #COVID

Super proud + super excited about Sabrina Leddy’s work on the role of TEs in elite control of HIV! In collab with @TheNixonLab and @manvendr7. Sabrina presented to fellow graduate field members today and knocked it out of the park! #proudPI

Day 0 of our first annual meeting on collab project HERVxHIVxLymphoma with @TheNixonLab,
Ethel Cesarman, & host Fabio Leal in Ipanema 🇧🇷☀️ #lifeisgood

Naso-oropharyngeal microbiome from breast cancer patients diagnosed with COVID-19 @GisCurty @cellstoshell @mlbendall @WeillCornell @WCM_ID frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Newest from the lab - great work from Nicholas Dopkins, @cellstoshell, @JezMarston, @_pfei, @mlbendall! @WeillCornell @mbiojournal @WCM_ID journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Endogenous Reverse Transcriptase Inhibition Attenuates TLR5-Mediated Inflammation dlvr.it/Sgyxmc

Check out our new review with @TheNixonLab on transposable elements and Alzheimer’s disease. We discuss new data that link dysregulated TE expression to AD pathogenesis.
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Transposable elements and Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis

@LiGanLab & @TheNixonLab

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@TrendsNeuro

'Transposable elements and Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis'

by Teresa Evering, Jez Marston, @LiGanLab & Douglas Nixon @TheNixonLab

cell.com/trends/neurosc…

How do our cells silence the thousands of endogenous retroviruses that have colonized the human #genome?

Nicholas Dopkins of @TheNixonLab has compiled a field guide describing known mechanisms:

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Thanks @HOPEforHIVCure @WCM_ID
#transposon #bioinformatics

Kudos to @hamarillo_ on presenting her work on scRNSeq to assess HERVs together with the great team from @TheNixonLab

@hamarillo_ is presenting our new tool, Stellarscope at #Singlecellgenomics2022 Nice work Helena! @TheNixonLab