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📣 KSHV 2025 27th Annual Meeting: Abstract Deadline Extended 📣 Considering recent uncertainties in travel and critical professional activities, KSHV 2025 is extending the abstract submission deadline for the 27th International Workshop to March 18 ksvirus.org/2025/02/28/%f0…

JVI: Pandemic risk stemming from the bovine #H5N1 outbreak: an account of the knowns and unknowns by Anice C. Lowen et al CEIRRNetwork journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jv…

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Health misinformation and its consequences - Dr. JenneLab weighs in alongside other experts: Timothy Caulfield, Jeremy Grimshaw O'Brien Institute for Public Health McCaig Institute Libin Cardiovascular Institute UCalgaryMedicine U Calgary Microbiology, Immunology, and Infectious Diseases

We're hiring a bioinformatics postdoc to join our growing lab and explore viral ecology, metagenomics, and host-microbe interactions! integrativeviromicslab.com/open-positions

Excellent talk of Louisa Iselin in the "Expanding world of RBPs" conference at #embl Heidelberg on the RBPome remodelling induced by interferon. #RBP, #RNA, #interferon

Wow huge news and huge congratulations to Jimmy Dikeakos and collaborators on this discovery!

📣 KSHV 2025 27th Annual Meeting, June 29-July 2 in Southern California: Abstract Deadline Extended (last time) to April 2nd! 📣 For those requiring a VISA, expedited, early decision can be requested immediately after submission. ksvirus.org/2025/03/19/%f0… via 27th Int'l Workshop on KSHV & Related Agents

Why can't these viruses be friends? In a new study from her PhD MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research , Anna Sims shows that #SARSCoV2 infections segregate into distinct microdomains as they spread. But why? (1/N) journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jv…

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Thomas Vallet tvallet, our lab's PhD student publishes our first review from our lab at A*STAR Infectious Diseases (ID) Labs mdpi.com/1999-4915/17/4…

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Nufold RNA structure prediction method in NSF Stories: Using machine learning to speed up discovery for drug delivery and disease treatment nsf.gov/news/using-mac…

How to find fantastic new #RNAs? The J2 antibody is the gold standard to detect, map & enrich dsRNAs. Co-led by Bou-Nader lab, Kevin Juma, Ankur Bothra & Steve Leppla’s lab, we visualize how J2 recognizes dsRNA and define its epitope, specificity & bias. doi.org/10.1101/2025.0….

My lab at Penn is actively seeking motivated and creative Postdoctoral researchers to join our team. Candidates with strong experience in electrophysiology, imaging, proteomics, or molecular biology are especially encouraged to apply. med.upenn.edu/jiangxielab/

…this preprint, along with another great study by the David LV Bauer, Theo Sanderson, Tom Peacock & others prompted me to take a closer look... biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 2/34

2nd is the aforementioned brilliant preprint from Corcoran Lab. It’s a deep dive into all things N*, & every other paragraph drops some new, delightful discovery. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 15/34

Both studies made THE crucial experiment: testing viruses with the WT N* TRS against ones with identical AA sequences but synonymous mutations ablating the N* TRS. 16/34

The Mulloy preprint delved deeper into the mechanisms N* employs to stymie innate immune responses. In a series of experiments, they show that N*’s power derives from its ability to bind dsRNA. For reasons not entirely understood, N* binds dsRNA much more strongly than N. 19/34

But there's more to N*'s advantage than just IFN antagonism. Even in cells that lack an IFN response, N*-expressing viruses outcompete N*-lacking viruses despite containing identical nucleocapsid AA sequences. 20/34