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RSV2025 in Iguazu Falls, Brazil, is really taking shape. We have received the highest number of abstracts ever! A call is out now for late breaker abstracts. Great opportunity to share your work with the global RSV community. See here for details: rsv2025.org/abstract-submi…

Fresh out of the press! ✨Check out our new paper on the violent entry of the HIV capsid into the nuclear pore — watch it crack that gate! 🤯 💥 Incredible work from Beck Laboratory and Hummer Lab 🤩 More here: biophys.mpg.de/2842024/hivcap… 🔗

Our new paper is out: "Mapping the complete influenza A virus infection cycle through single vRNP imaging". Combining single-molecule imaging approaches with in situ transcriptomics, we identify many non-canonical infection pathways. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Movie: viral entry

Tech report of our de novo antibody design platform, JAM, is now up on biorxiv! We added new results showing JAM-generated sequences and structures are quite novel. Link below

Save the Date! Join us for the 31st International Symposium on Hepatitis C virus, Flavivirus, and Related Viruses (HCV-Flavi) on October 13-16, 2025 at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore. More details soon—stay tuned! Sincerely, HCV-Flavi 2025 Organizing Committee

Are you thinking of starting work on influenza for the first time because of... reasons? Or does your lab train people to work on flu? With Maria Amorim and Yohei Yamauchi, we've written a chapter specifically on getting up to speed on flu ... (1/2) link.springer.com/protocol/10.10…

🦟How do bunyaviruses spread via mosquitoes? A new study shows the NSm protein is key. NSm helps the virus move cell-to-cell in the mosquito midgut, a crucial step for transmission. Without it, infection fails. More: gla.ac.uk/research/az/cv… Paper: nature.com/articles/s4146…

Today is #WomenInScience #GirlsInSTEM day, a great opportunity to highlight that applications for the British Council's Women in STEM scholarships in the UK are open: britishcouncil.org/study-work-abr…

Mature #HIV-1 contains >2000 copies of “spacer peptide 2”, but we didn’t know why. We now see that SP2 binds the matrix protein and triggers the change into its mature arrangement. Summary video from Margot Riggi :

Our recent collaborative work showing the promising broad-spectrum antiviral activity of chitosan sulfate derivatives against SARS-CoV-2, RSV, and Sindbis virus is finally online. Check it out! Detailed mechanisms and in vivo characterization included! rdcu.be/eb9IQ

Our #cryoEM technology group with scientists from the MPI of Biophysics and Vienna BioCenter, used #cryoET to capture retrotransposons in action, resolving copia in #fruitflies at sub-nanometer resolution inside cells. ❕Publication Cell: cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

SPACEtomo v1.3 is now available! What's new? - Lots of tools for setting up targets on non-lamella samples - Option for reacquisition of specific maps (e.g. after cleaning) - Bug fixes and more robust Give it a try and let me know what is still missing! github.com/eisfabian/SPAC…

Our work on HIV-1 matrix, led by James Stacey and Dominik Hrebik Dominik Hrebik, is in this week's nature. Extended explanatory video from Margot Riggi. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Happy to share an update to FollowRelionGracefully! Real-time previews & stats plotting for most #cryoEM #Relion jobs (incl. #teamtomo). Faster, more modular code, uniform UI, & selection. Feedback welcome! github.com/dzyla/Follow_R…

🔬 A new probe developed by Janelia researchers & collaborators that enables visualization of extracellular matrix structure in live tissues could also be useful in studying diseases linked to changes in the extracellular matrix and in diagnostic imaging➡️ janelia.org/news/looking-b…

We have discovered plant cell penetrating peptides! Tag your protein of interest with these small peptides for direct protein delivery to plants! tiny.cc/8g5i001 Plantae | #NIFAImpacts

You want to start tomography? Solve structures inside cells? Reach Nyquist😳? We have a website for you! tomoguide.github.io You'll find a tutorial on how to reconstruct tomograms, pick particles and do subtomo averaging, using different software! Hope it will be useful !

The peer-reviewed version of expansion in situ genome sequencing is now out in Science! The news is bittersweet – when we first revealed this last September, I never guessed it would be my final paper in academia, but a lot has changed. A few parting thoughts:

The ChimeraX 1.10 release candidate and daily builds can predict small complexes of proteins, nucleic acids and small molecules using Boltz on your Mac, Windows or Linux computer. rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/data/…

Fantastic thread from Daniel Weir explaining his new paper on how flu drives dying cells to reach out and infect their neighbours, done as part of his PhD here MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research 🧵