I had the pleasure of nominating Sabra Klein Sabra Klein Lab as the Center for Vaccine Research trainee invited speaker this year. She gave a fabulous talk about sex differences in immunity and interacted with various trainees and faculty. Thanks Dr. Klein for visiting and sharing your insights! 💉🦠

Vaccine strains of Rift Valley fever virus exhibit attenuation at the maternal-fetal placental interface biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

Ready for the American Society for Virology #asv2024 first keynote to kick off what is sure to be a great conference!

Too busy to post but here we are #ASV2024 also, it’s tan blazer day!!

Had such a great time at American Society for Virology #ASV2024 this past week 🦠 I didn’t present this year and got to just enjoy networking and learning 😃 Love getting to hear about all things virology, and it’s always so fun to learn more about current and past Center for Vaccine Research members work.

New #RVFV paper by Cynthia McMillen out of Hartman Lab (Amy Hartman 👩‍🔬🏊🏻)! 🦠 Vaccine strains of Rift Valley fever virus exhibit attenuation at the maternal–fetal placental interface journals.asm.org/eprint/MISNIIZ…

2024 Hartman Lab outing to Pirates vs Phillies 7/19/24 @ PNCPark Let’s go Bucs!! 🏴‍☠️

Mh, not great.

Feeling appreciated by the Amy Hartman 👩‍🔬🏊🏻 lab this postdoc appreciation week #NPAW2024 😂 💙 💛 🧬 👩‍🔬 🦠 love being part of this team

🚨👇 2 opportunities are now available in my lab! Sense of humor required! University of Pittsburgh The Pitt News Pitt Public Health Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Center for Vaccine Research Research Technician/Lab Manager: cfopitt.taleo.net/careersection/… Research Scientist/Project Manager: cfopitt.taleo.net/careersection/…

We have a new preprint on #Oropouche virus, the emerging #bunyavirus circulating in South America. In work with the #prototype BeAn19991 strain, we found primary neurons and microglia to be highly permissive to infection. Pitt Public Health University of Pittsburgh Center for Vaccine Research

Last post on twitter. 🫡 New pre-print out on Jamestown Canyon virus! First author of this study Zach Frey 🧠🦠🧪 is applying for grad school this cycle. I highly recommend him! Go to the blue place 🔵 to learn more about this and our continuing work! biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

One of the best days of the year, the Center for Vaccine Research holiday party! 🎄 featuring the CVR bar! 🍻

So fun to connect with a past peer and colleague Ashley Divens from my PhD program at WVU Micro and Immuno as she interviews for a potential postdoc at a collaborating lab at the Center for Vaccine Research ! So cool to see how her project has progressed since she first joined the program👩‍🔬 💙 💛

Is this heaven? No, it's #Pittsburgh. What an incredible morning in the Steel City. I had hoped to capture the moon but when this fog rolled in I knew we were in for some amazing scenes, and the view from the West End was perfect. Check out those shadows on the fog. Just insane.

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