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Jonathan Kagan A dirty little secret that infected cells are not major source of cytokines - I do like this one from Carolina B. Lopez that covers defective viral genomes ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

SLC35A2 modulates paramyxovirus fusion events during infection biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

Paper out! Postdoc Matt Hackbart characterized non-standard viral genomes generated during arenavirus infections and identified prominent S RNA intergenic region deletions that can interfere with expression of the LCMV glycoprotein| mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Thanks for putting this together! Happy to be included in this (long) list of Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx Scientists | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center fredhutch.org/en/about/about…

Yes yes! Apply! Looking for all areas of microbiology, including virology!!

Paper out! Using the murine parainfluenza virus Sendai, Ítalo Araújo Castro beautifully demonstrates that viral RNA and protein found in innate immune cells long after the acute infection is resolved contribute to chronic lung pathology nature.com/articles/s4156…

A WashU Medicine mouse study shows that respiratory viruses can hide in lung immune cells after infection, creating inflammation that leads to chronic lung diseases such as asthma. medicine.wustl.edu/news/viruses-f…

My friend and collaborator Shaon Sengupta (Penn/ CHOP in Philadelphia) is looking for postdocs. She does beautiful work on the impact of circadian rhythms in lung inflammation. Check out our collaborative work: nature.com/articles/s4146… Apply by emailing [email protected]

And read Ítalo Araújo Castro’s blog telling the story behind this paper: communities.springernature.com/posts/murine-p…

New paramyxoviruses! Paper by Won-Keun Kim with a tiny contribution from our lab...let me introduce you to Samak virus! virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Are you a guru in RNA or protein biology and looking to expand your horizons into virology? Email me your CV and cover letter to [email protected]

Mourning the loss of Dr. Diane Griffin, who passed away on Monday. Dr. Griffin was a founding member of CMM JHU and chaired our advisory board. A distinguished virologist, she was an elected member of Natl Acad Sci and Natl Acad Med. We remember her with gratitude.

New paper out! Here Vicky tested our DDO (DVG-derived Oligonucleotide) as a type 1 immunity-inducer adjuvant in mRNA vaccines using influenza NP as a model antigen...works great in mice by stimulating RLRs! journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10.11…

First paper of 2025! Postdoc Yanling Yang shows that SLC35A2 modulates paramyxovirus fusion events during infection | PLOS Pathogens journals.plos.org/plospathogens/…

BREAKING: Wyoming woman hospitalized after testing positive for H5N1 bird flu, health department says

About a month after Donald Trump took office as the 47th US president, almost all grant-review meetings remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion

And w/o federal funding research in the US is largely compromised as a “pause” would requiere many labs to let go people with high level training and expertise. Recovering from such personnel losses takes lots of resources in training and time. Not a smart move!

Why Cutting Basic Science Funding May Amount to Economic Unilateral Disarmament | American Enterprise Institute - AEI aei.org/economics/why-…

America’s loss, China’s gain: top Chinese universities welcome PhD refugees from the US | South China Morning Post scmp.com/news/china/sci…

ALLEA Statement on Threats to Academic Freedom and International Research Collaboration in the United States - ALLEA allea.org/portfolio-item…