Meeting ⁦Denys Khaperskyy⁩ ‘s lab in 3D! ⁦Stacia Dolliver⁩ and Juliette not on Twitter

I have been reflecting a lot on the Lino23 discussion about DEI. Can we please promote DEI in STEM because it is the MORAL, and ETHICAL thing to do? Can we please stop promoting DEI because it is good for science? It is good for science but that is not why we should do this. 1/

I often see posts saying CNS or fancy papers are needed for a faculty job, grants or tenure. I do not agree. Moreover, I think it is harmful to make such statements. 1/

We love genetic approaches to define virus:host interactions. Knockout screens are powerful, but...technical constraints limit what you can find. Could we devise a screen where viral fitness pinpoints the key regulators of replication? (spoiler - yes cell.com/cell-host-micr…) 1/10

Congratulations, Dr. Anice Lowen, for her promotion to Professor beginning September 2023. Dr Lowen was also named Principal Investigator of Centers of Excellence for Infuenza Research and Response (CEIRR) of Emory University. Anice Lowen CEIRRNetwork

Congratulations!!🎉

BiP/GRP78 is a pro-viral factor for diverse dsDNA viruses that promotes the survival and proliferation of cells upon KSHV infection biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we grieve the transgender Americans whose lives were taken this year. There is no place for hate or discrimination in America. No one should lose their life simply for being themselves.

So proud!

Check out our new preprint

Ventilation does not affect influenza virus transmission efficiency in a ferret playpen setup biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

By studying how the poxvirus family has produced both deadly diseases and historic cures, Dr. Zhilong Yang is developing new antiviral drugs for mpox and new methods for fighting future pandemics. #TAMUVetMed Learn more about his team's research at vetmed.tamu.edu/news/press-rel…

Congrats to Tommy Anderson on his first author publication from our lab detailing the first structure of a polymerase complex from an alphacoronavirus, PEDV! Also a big shoutout to Josh Coon who helped with the native MS analysis! academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…

Congratulations to Gavin for successfully defending his Master’s thesis! #proudPI

Jonathan Kagan Might want to look at proteins made from transcripts that are poorly expressed in presence of pathogen, but are super-efficiently translated. These proteins get synthesized in presence of pathogen translation elongation-inhibitors. journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.11…

#Cover: Solstad et al. Emily Hemann's lab The Ohio State University College of Medicine utilize a model of mouse-adapted SARS-CoV-2 to show that type III interferon signaling regulates DC function to promote SARS-CoV-2–specific CD8 T cell responses: buff.ly/4byRq34 #Immunology #InfectiousDisease

So excited for Tommy Anderson as he defends his thesis on coronavirus RNA synthesis this Friday! Good luck Tommy!

So proud of Dr. Tommy Anderson!!!!!

"There is so much to learn about plant viruses and their translation. They've been neglected because we assume they work like animal viruses (influenza, HIV, etc.), but that's an incorrect assumption. My vision is to advance the field of plant viruses." warf.org/commercialize/…

It is time to share our findings about a study by Bloom Lab that had a lot of echo in 2021. TL;DR: The sequences that J Bloom recovered were not from the earliest cases, but from late January 2020. He had the information, deleted it during his analysis, then ignored it.▫️1/8