Excited for tomorrow when Shana Owens from the Craig Forrest lab will present her dissertation defense seminar!

Woohoo!!! 🥳👏🥂 Congratulations to Shana Owens on a successful #dissertation Zoom defense!!! Awesome job! #herpes4life #lovevirology #PhDone UAMS Microbiology & Immunology

Friends, this is NOT a parking lot. That is the line for #COVID drive-thru testing on campus - 6 cars wide right now!!! Before today, I’ve only seen 3 wide. Scary! Here’s the PSA: #WearAMask #WashYourHands #StayAtHome if you can. Stay safe!

Gammaherpesviruses set up shop in B cells- but do they actively shape the antibody profile of the host cells they hold hostage? 🦠 Check out our review! Thanks to Monika A. Zelazowska of McBrideLab ⁦MD Anderson Cancer Center⁩! #herpesforlife mdpi.com/1999-4915/12/8…

Great mentor in an awesome city!

Big happy birthday to Karl Boehme Here’s to the next 50!

Back to school during a pandemic - this is essentially a large scale viral transmission experiment using humans. The #scientist in me is curious what will happen. The #parent in me is honestly terrified. Please #WearAMask Stay safe, friends!

Did I miss something CDC? As we open up schools and need to identify asymptomatic #Covid_19 spreaders to keep people safe, why we would stop recommending testing of people who are exposed? Looking for a logical explanation.

I literally feel sick to my stomach with every clip I see from the RNC. I vote split ticket. I pick the candidate I think is best for the job. I can’t handle selling fear and lies. The pandemic response is horrible. Scaring people doesn’t fix systemic racism. #BLM #COVID19

Check out our lab’s new paper in JV!Awesome postdoc ⁦Shana Owens⁩ used genetic tricks to define when and where a GHV latency gene is important for colonizing a host. #lovevirology #herpes4life pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33028711/

Happy to announce a collaborative project with ⁦Wendy Nembhard of ⁦UAMS Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health⁩ ⁦Karl Boehme⁩ and many others establishing a SeroNet project to evaluate humoral immunity in #COVID19 in Arkansas. news.uams.edu/2020/10/08/uam…

#PostDoc position open in ⁦Krug lab ⁦NIH⁩! Use animal models to study & stop cancer-causing 🦠 #herpesviruses. Stable funding, creative&hard-working lab in HIV&AIDS Malignancy Branch ⁦National Cancer Institute⁩. Basic meets translational research! 🚀 Plz RT. ccr.cancer.gov/HIV-and-AIDS-M…

#prouddad moment: 4 swims 4 wins in the AR 6A #highschoolswim state championship! So much fun to watch - esp coming from way back to win the 400 FR! Both women’s and men’s teams are state runners up. #littlerockcentralhighschool Little Rock School District #swimdad #statechamp

Realization from a group discussion of data/methods today - many people are uncomfortable with gray areas in data interpretations. Not every data set has binary/definitive conclusions - that’s perfectly fine. Just show ALL the data and tell me how you got there. #ScienceTwitter

Today, Dean Kedes, PhD, MD & I will host an American Society of Virology town hall session at 7pm EST to answer questions about COVID vaccines. Free & open to all! Sign up at: asv.org/education/ American Society for Virology UNC-Chapel Hill UNC School of Medicine UVA

Check out this month's Microbiology & Immunology Spotlight featuring Steven Murdock from the Craig Forrest Lab!

Check out our collaboration with Laurie Krug on #gammaherpesvirus #vaccine development today in a talk by UAMS Microbiology & Immunology PhD student Wes Bland Wes Bland, PhD in workshop 36 - talk 11 #ASV2021

Check out super postdoc Shana Owens’s Shana Owens talk (W44-11) on a gammaherpesvirus protein that derails adaptive immune responses during #latency establishment #ASV2021

To all of my #science colleagues who are fast editors and quick and efficient writers - I envy you.

Please RT & help spread the word 📣📣📣 we are an energetic group at a great institution! Launch 🚀 your postgraduate career studying cancer-causing viruses! 🦠Virology + cancer biology + immunology + pathogenesis ➡️ pre-clinical research