In 2024, Austria experienced its largest measles outbreak in at least 24 years (542 cases - all over Austria, different age groups, several independent outbreaks!). So we wondered: is there an immunity gap in our population? #Measles #immunizationweek eurosurveillance.org/content/10.280…

What's next? At this pace, give it a few more episodes and TWIV's next stop is exile. #savevirology #savescience nature.com/articles/d4158…

One of my favorite papers from Spyros Lytras and Jonathan Pekar is now published in Cell! Congratz! Here is our chat about this remarkabe work and what it means for the zoonotic origins of COVID-19 🔽 Paper: cell.com/cell/fulltext/… Video: youtube.com/watch?v=ROUdGe…

The recency and geographical origins of the bat viruses ancestral to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 Cell What a great work Jonathan Jonathan Pekar and Spyros Spyros Lytras 🤩🤩🤩‼️ cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Thank you Masarykova univerzita and Ruzek Lab. I'm really grateful. 😊

Can’t believe my very first grant application was successful! Even happier that I had the chance to apply together with Gabor Kemenesi on a project focused on developing a dual antiviral screening platform to combat Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus (#CCHFV).

Sex bias determines MERS-CoV infection outcomes in a mouse model of differential pathogenicity biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_micrbio

Introducing AlphaGenome: an AI model to help scientists better understand our DNA – the instruction manual for life 🧬 Researchers can now quickly predict what impact genetic changes could have - helping to generate new hypotheses and drive biological discoveries. ↓

nice! doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

Powassan 🙂

Neonatal mouse model reveals pathogenesis of Shanxi Tick Virus 2 isolated from Haemaphysalis longicornis virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

We have multiple PhD and Postdoc positions open in my new group at Masaryk University. Are you an excellent and motivated candidate interested in organic and peptide synthesis and chemical biology? Get in touch! Start in January 2026. fialalab.com Appreciate sharing!

Scientists overwhelmingly recognize the value of sharing null results, but rarely publish them in the research literature go.nature.com/472poOC

Mapa shrnující všechny oběti genově modifikovaných potravin na celém světě. Po těch desítkách let a miliardách spotřebitelů, nula. Pořád nula.

way to go :)

Ruzek Lab is celebrating the acceptance of our new Nature Communications paper with Jiří Holoubek as first author! 🎉🥂🍾 Stay tuned for more details once the embargo is lifted!

We have developed MouseMapper AI, a deep learning ensemble for the analysis of whole-body systems, including the nervous and immune systems, to map disease/drug perturbations tissue by tissue, organ by organ, at the cellular level in 3D. MouseMapper uncovered obesity-induced

Happy to be part of this paper with newly engineered tGFP-TBEV. And even more happy that this is the first-author paper of Michaela Beránková. Well deserved! 😊