A paper in Nature Communications characterizea the convergent evolution of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants and the properties of one recent lineage of concern, BQ.1.1. go.nature.com/3W5ySkQ

I am speaking at ASV 2023. Please check out my talk if you're attending the event! - via #Whova event app

For the #ASV2023 crowd: If you want good coffee, go to 1000 Faces 1000 Faces Coffee . They have the best coffee in Athens and are located right around the corner from the conference center. Highly recommended.

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Enjoying #ASV2023 seeing colleagues. Tuli Lab🪄

#ASV2023 meeting LVD investigator Julie Fox and grad student Chris Bullock Julie Fox

Some Virus art at Mathias Silva on cards. Great idea. I am biased but flu is best. Lol

Some flu-ers at #ASV2023 #influenza@asv2023 @DrAndyBroadbent

Thrilled The Atlantic highlighted our new work on flu transmission - big shout out to Nicole Rockey and our whole mitigate flu team Linsey Marr https://www.threads.net/@linseycmarr @MartinEpi Anice Lowen (to name a few) and Flu Lab for funding this ‘crazy’ idea!!

Our work on structure-guided design of influenza vaccine nanoparticles based on helix A of HA is out in plos pathogens. journals.plos.org/plospathogens/… Designed nanoparticles elicit cross-reactive antibody responses to conserved influenza virus hemagglutinin stem epitopes #influenza

This week’s #FluView includes five reported flu-related deaths in children occurring this season. This brings the total number of pediatric flu deaths reported to CDC to eight so far for the 2023-2024 season. Learn more: bit.ly/3ZVOyJp

I am looking for postdocs for my lab in Vienna. Email me if you are interested.

H5N1 has now been reported in cows in several states in the US. I wouldn't be surprised if there are infections in cows in Europe too. Maybe people should start looking.

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Great meeting on small animal models and respiratory viruses. #NIAID, #CEIRR, ceirr-network.org

Great talks at Virus structure and assembly, FASEB, #VSASRC. Nice talking to bright students from the Teschke lab. Richard Whitehead

The preliminary sequence from the H5N1 human case in British Columbia has been posted and it is not good news. I just posted a thread of my thoughts on this on the blue sky site.

I am looking forward to co-lead Vaccine with Angie and Ivan. Challenging times are ahead but I am confident we will help to push vaccinology forward, support promising young investigators and contribute to a collaborative and innovative vaccinology community. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai