Out now in our May issue, a Perspective on the biology, evolution and transmission of poxiruses, by Bernard Moss 👇 nature.com/articles/s4156…

Read our latest July issue! 🚀 Changed microbiome during spaceflight 🧫 How biofilms support their communities 🔥 Body heat drives antifungal resistance 🍔 Diet and gut microbiota in cancer 🍄 Learn about nematode trapping fungi ...and more, here 👇 nature.com/nmicrobiol/vol…

CryoDRGN-ET❄️🐉 is published in Nature Methods! We combine neural fields and generative modeling to reveal the structural heterogeneity of protein complexes *in situ*! So excited to see this out, and huge congrats to Ramya Rangan, Ryan Feathers and team! nature.com/articles/s4159…

VAV1 as a putative therapeutic target in autoimmune and chronic inflammatory diseases dlvr.it/TB4WV7 #immunology

he asks so politely 🥺

A 60-year-old man in Germany has become at least the seventh person with HIV to be announced free of the virus after receiving a stem-cell transplant go.nature.com/4diIUGQ

news.yale.edu/2024/07/29/wha…

Tanapox Virus and Yaba Monkey Tumor Virus K3 Orthologs Inhibit Primate Protein Kinase R in a Species-Specific Fashion mdpi.com/2861656 #mdpiviruses via Viruses MDPI

Toward De Novo Protein Design from Natural Language: Propose Pinal, a 2-stage generative framework, avoiding end-to-end text-protein generation. Design an optimal sampler to integrate both stages. Outperform ESM3 when prompting with text. #ProteinDesign biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The World Health Organization has updated its list of most dangerous viruses and bacteria go.nature.com/46uc8jy

The August @TrendsImmunoe issue is out!! #ARID1A; #NLRC5; #SpleenInnervation & #GerminalCenters; #VAV1 & #Autoimmunity & #Inflammation; #Neuroimmune crosstalk & #Hematopoiesis; #NonNeutralizingAntibodies & #SARSCoV2 ; #Iron & #MyeloidCells & more!! cell.com/trends/immunol…

Meet the Early-Career Scientists Selected for the 2024 IAI New Voices in Microbiology Collection. journals.asm.org/topic/sss-taxo…

Today, we declare #Mpox a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security. With 2,863 confirmed cases and 517 deaths across 13 African countries in 2024 alone, Mpox is a crisis demanding our collective action. Africa CDC is activating resources, partnerships, and leading

Latest work on #Mpox coming out from many colleagues including Dr. Anne Rimoin Placide Mbala @LaurensLiesenb1 Pathogen Genomic Lab - INRB Nicola Low #EveryDayCounts #StillFBPE Documented transboundary transmission of mpox between the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

WHO declares mpox outbreak a global health emergency edition.cnn.com/2024/08/14/hea…

Today the first extraordinary meeting of the Standing Committee on Health Emergency Prevention, Preparedness and Response was convened, following my declaration yesterday of a public health emergency of international concern over the upsurge of #mpox in Africa. The Emergency

De novo enzyme design!!! | Amazing work from Anna, Sam David Juergens and all the co-authors! Computational design of serine hydrolases biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I’m pleased to announce my transition to Chair of the Department of Microbiology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. As part of this role, we’re recruiting two junior faculty for 2025, focusing on infection biology. Learn more and apply: apply.interfolio.com/153243

🚨🚨 Our latest paper shows that IFITM3 deficiency lowers the minimum virus dose threshold for influenza and also enhances adaptation of the virus to a new species.🦠🫁 Major implications for preventing new pandemics. 😷 First author Parker J. Denz, PhD 👨‍🔬nature.com/articles/s4146…

Poxvirus structural biology for application to vaccine design dlvr.it/TKd61m #immunology