Happy birthday to my friend, mentor, and freshly minted PhD @smudged_western! Super proud of you! 🥳 pc:Maris Wilkins

Super proud of TongTong Zhu for successfully defending his PhD today! Another Fernandez-Sesma graduate that I am sure will keep making me proud. The sky is the limit, Dr. TT! #ProudMentor

Please consider supporting the family of Ricardo, an Einstein MSTP who passed unexpectedly gofundme.com/f/in-loving-me…

NEW: Just updated list of City-run covid test locations and hours, with a number of new brick-and-mortar sites opening this week.

I regraphed some of the residual Omicron/B.1.1.529 neutralization data from our recent preprint. This makes a very strong case for getting a booster dose and for getting vaccinated if you are convalescent but not yet vaccinated. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Now you can get a PCR test at transit hubs in NYC. Already up and running daily at: * Times Sq (passage btwn 1/2/3 & S), 8am-2pm * Grand Central, 3pm-8pm And starting tomorrow at more sites listed below. All sites also offer vax/booster. Details: new.mta.info/coronavirus/po…

I am genuinely flummoxed by this. This is the official account of the NYC Dep of Health "strongly" recommending masks even if fully vaxxed. Yet in schools - where more than 1 million New Yorkers congregate each day - masks are optional & no such recommendation has been made.

New York skyline but with western blots

Our Lab is going to the 42nd Annual Meeting of American Society for Virology! Jeury Veloz Eva Chebishev🧫🦠🔬 Abstracts just submitted. I have the great honor of delivering the Keynote Lecture🥰. I hope to see many old friends and to make new ones this year! #LoveVirology asv.org/asv2023/

The Fernandez-Sesma Lab is hiring! IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE postdoctoral position in our lab at the department of Microbiology Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. Applicants interested in virology, immunology and systems biology are encouraged to apply! @CEIRR HIPC #LoveVirology

Hi everyone!👋 Please join us Thursday 16th Feb for the next #arbovirus seminar from Morrison Lab, University of Colorado, who will present exciting new findings on #CHIKV infection. All welcome; please do help us with a RT.👇

Second day was the awesome Thesis defense of Jessica Pintado Silva (Rosa María del Angel as outside examiner) Jessy did an amazing job presenting her recently published work on tetravalent DENV vaccines. Thanks to the fantastic committee! I am very proud of you, Jessy🥰

You would think that after so many similar conversation RE entry exams for higher education (e.g SAT, GRE), people would understand that the same reasons why these exams are a bad idea (detailed below) should especially apply to children applying to HIGH SCHOOL 🙄

Looking forward to delivering the Keynote address at #ASV2023 tomorrow in Athens, GA! Excited to see many friends and colleagues and meeting new ones. ⁦American Society for Virology⁩ #LoveVirology ⁦Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai⁩

That's my PI!! So proud of you Ana Fernandez-Sesma !!! Incredible keynote talk highlighting the lab's work over the years 🦠🧬 #ASV2023

I am so tired of people claiming life is a meritocracy. Surely those who espouse the notion that the rich deserve to be rich don't actually believe what they're saying. Surely they know that redistribution of wealth does not "punish" success but fosters the breadth of success.

1. Sonya Massey - "I rebuke you in the name of Jesus." 2. George Floyd - "I can't breathe." 3. Eric Garner - "I can't breathe." 4. Michael Brown - "I don't have a gun. Stop shooting." 5. Philando Castile - "I wasn't reaching for it." 6. Breonna Taylor - "Why did you shoot me?" 7.

I’m not going to be able to tell you about the consequences of EVERY lost grant, but I’m going to try. Let’s start with the Antiviral Drug Discovery (AViDD) program for pathogens of pandemic concern! It just got unceremonially shitcanned.