Just came back from my first #ASV2022. Learned a lot of science, finally met the people behind the articles I read. See you next year American Society for Virology ! (Photo of my talk taken by Ruipeng )

COVID-19 free for about 3 years now. Two virology conference survivors. Cannot push my luck too much 😂 (had fever last night, sore arm, the usual)

Happy to see Tony Liu 's paper on how the need to maintain functional interactions between the two flu glycoproteins influences the specific evolutionary pathways available to the virus out in Cell Host & Microbe Great collab with Nicholas Wu Yiquan Wang Timothy Tan!

#ILLINOIS researchers are exploring gene interactions in #influenza to help improve accuracy of #flu vaccines. Learn more about the Brooke Lab's findings ▶️ mcb.illinois.edu/news/2022-10-0… #microbiology #uiuc #infectiousdiseases

Happy holidays! It turns out influenza virus particles will dress like a snowman ☃️ during winter. First time seeing my virus after 4 years working on them! So much fun playing around the TEM😂

Minions are hard to find, here I spotted a pair of them (a pair of influenza virion) Merry Christmas!

Check out Tony Liu 's new paper on how the evolutionary potential of seasonal H1N1 HA is influenced by its interactions with the neuraminidase in Virus Evolution! academic.oup.com/ve/article/10/…

Check out Joel Rivera-Cardona 's new preprint examining how the seasonal H1N1 and H3N2 lineages of IAV differ in their ability to antagonize IFN induction and signaling, and how these phenotypes have evolved over decades of circulation in humans: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…