Even though the lab is closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, it hasn’t stopped us from keeping busy. Despite some “novel” working from home set ups, we have tried to keep up with as many aspects of lab life as possible and have been writing papers for publications, chapters for thesis and planning future experiments. The immune system is now a well-used term in many people’s vocabulary, and Dan has been especially busy talking about its importance across many events.

As part of the University’s Lockdown Lecture series, you can listen to Dan’s talk on Monday 15 June 2020 on the Lockdown Lectures page. He has also spoken about the importance of the immune system as part of the Hay Festival line up and can be found in conversation with Matthew Cobb chatting all things brain as part of Cheltenham Science Festival.

Dan has also commented on and co-authored several COVID-specific pieces you should check out:

• ‘Coronavirus: Quest for immunity is biggest fight of our life’ in The Times.
• ‘Drug firms are racing to calm the cykotine storm’ in The Times.
• ‘Coronavirus: we must step up research to harness immense power of the immune system’ in The Conversation.
• ‘Fever can help the immune system, so what should we do if we have one?’ in the New Scientist.