Double celebration at Ruzek Lab! 🎉 We celebrated Ludek's promotion to Associate Professor 👨‍🎓 and welcomed our new Postdoc, Alex (Alexandra Wilson), to the lab 🍻

Virologists at the zoo! That's not the name of the new exhibition, but our lab trip to Zoo Zlín. 🙂 We enjoyed great weather and saw a Bata's city from above on the way back. 😊

Congratulations on your PhD Graduation .Alexandra Wilson!! 🎉 very proud of you! 🤩 #proudpi #lovevirology

It’s a little surreal to have officially graduated, but I feel extremely lucky and grateful to have got here. I’m so thankful for my family, friends, and the Brennan Lab CVR 🦠🕷🦟🔬🧫, I couldn’t have done it without you ❤️🎉 can’t wait for what comes next! #UofGgrad24 University of Glasgow

Check out new research from Ruzek Lab demonstrating that TBEV can infect human microglia in the brain, with strain-dependent differences in viral replication and immune responses. 🧠🦠🔬sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Do you know what makes tick- and mosquito-borne flaviviruses different? Check the newest preprint by Jiří Holoubek et al. from Ruzek Lab 👀📖🔬🦠 researchsquare.com/article/rs-391…

Have you seen this movie showing three prME heterodimers in immature TBEV particles? Don't miss it, and check out the accompanying paper on immature spiky TBEV in Science Advances!📖🦠science.org/doi/full/10.11…

Look at these huge african soft ticks Ornithodoros moubata - vectors of ASFV or borrelia. #softtick #ticks #ornithodoros #africanhuttampan #argasidae #ASFV --> Ruzek Lab

Ruzek Lab was thrilled to host Gabor Kemenesi and his fellows from the CDC and the US Embassy. Thank you for the inspiring discussions, great company, and a fun dinner! 🍻

When Ruzek Lab has a planned power outage, we turn it into the perfect opportunity for tick hunting! 🌿🔍

Ruzek Lab is well represented to share our latest research at at the 30th International Symposium on Hepatitis C Virus, Flaviviruses, and Related Viruses in Oxford, UK @HcvFlavi2024 🔬🦠

I'm really happy to see this out! The story of how different genetic backgrounds can influence the host response and progression of #TBEV in mice. --> Ruzek Lab jneuroinflammation.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Very proud and grateful to announce I’ve been selected for an ERA fellowship! Can’t wait to start the TASTE project in the wonderful Ruzek Lab 🦠🥼thank you to everyone in the lab and at Masaryk University for their incredible support during the application process 😊 #research #TBEV

Ruzek Lab celebrated Alexandra Wilson's ERA Fellowship award with a nice dinner. Congratulations! 🏆🍽️

We present 3D mapping of TBEV in the mouse brain using our newly engineered TurboGFP reporter virus 🦠🧠 Check out the full study in Emerging Microbes & Infections from Ruzek Lab with Michaela Beránková as the first author! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

What makes tick-borne and mosquito-borne flaviviruses different? Beyond their different vectors, our recent Nature Communications paper with Jiří Holoubek as the first author reveals a key distinction — their maturation process 🦠🦟🔬 nature.com/articles/s4146… Ruzek Lab

📢 Thrilled to share our NEW PREPRINT! SFTSV NSs is a novel tick antiviral RNAi suppressor! 🦠 🧫 NSs essential for tick but not mammalian infection 🧬 Binds 22-nt viral siRNAs to block RNAi 🕷️ Reveals host-specific viral immune evasion 📖doi.org/p2vf #lovevirology

🚀 A brilliant study just published in Journal of Virology by Överby Lab — Ruzek Lab is proud to be part of it! 🧠🔬 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jv…