Our new paper is now online! We found that SARS-CoV-2 can use TMEM106B as cell entry receptor. Spike substitution E484D increases binding to TMEM106B. Cell Daelemans Lab cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

We got a new preprint up on bioRxiv !! The recency and geographical origins of the bat viruses ancestral to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 🦇🦠🗺biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

From homeless street urchin to successful scientist and Nobel Prize laureate. Mario Capecchi, born in 1937, spent years on the streets in Italy and nearly died of malnutrition in a hospital. He was awarded the 2007 medicine prize. Read Capecchi’s story: bit.ly/2JW6ek1

Application deadline extended to July 30. Please forward this ad in your circles. :)

We are a long term coronavirus lab, looking for a postdoc to work on comparative human and murine CoV host-virus interactions- SARS-2, MERS, OC43,229E, NL63, MHV; interferon signaling responses, integrated stress resposne, primary nasal cell cultures. Univ Pennsylvania

Short communication from us, available in the BioRxiv😊 Krzysztof Pyrc Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology UJ

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Our new article by Wang et al. is now available Communications Biology. We analysed the ability of 26 CoV Spike proteins to utilize the ACE2 receptor of nine reservoir hosts, revealing binding determinants and highlighting the potent immune escape of new VOCs. nature.com/articles/s4200…

Deutschland-Premiere! - Ausstellung „STEM Passion“ an #uulm - Molekularbiologin & Fotografin Elisabetta Citterio Elisabetta Citterio zeigt Porträts von Wissenschaftlerinnen aus den MINT-Fächern. Zu sehen ab Fr., 27. Okt., in N 27. t1p.de/2hwz8 *red/Foto: Citterio

3-years postdoctoral position on non-coding RNA in traumatic brain injury available in the Roselli lab from March 2024. Anybody interested? please DM! European Neurotrauma Organisation (ENO)

A very interesting study by the Sparrer group on the role of ARF1 in regulating inflammatory responses

Traitor-virus-guided discovery of novel antiviral factors biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

Are you interested in discovering mechanisms responsible for innate immune evasion of human coronaviruses? We offer exciting PhD projects in a diverse international research environment at Ulm University (speaking German not required). Please apply/RT: uniklinik-ulm-karriere.de/job/view/2909/…

We had lunch with Prof. Dr. Frank Kirchhoff in the program of ACHIEVE ROUND! I am happy to meet the boss who trained the kind German scientists🇩🇪who came to Japan! #GfV2024

And on it goes… this year‘s Loeffler-Frosch-Award 🏆🥇 goes to… … Konstantin Sparrer @SparrerLab Universität Ulm! Very well deserved, Konstantin! Congratulations! 🎉🍾 Memorable laudatio by Frank Kirchhoff, thank you Frank! 😂 #GfV2024

Proud to see our discovery on antiviral extracellular vesicles in print 🤩 Great work by Rüdiger Groß and all collaborators! Thanks to all involved! Philipps-Universität Universität Ulm

At the Social Evening of #GfV2024, I was at a table with two of today's oral presenters who did excellent talks. I met so many young PIs and post-docs at this conference, and it motivated me and made me think about my future career a lot🌟