Swathi Sukumar

Still time to register for our hybrid-Autumn All-Ireland RNA club meeting on the 5th of December. Prof. Angus Lamond will be delivering the keynote. ECR talk prizes will be sponsored by
@rnasociety.bsky.social and Lexogen
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
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Why All Vaccines Should Be Free | The Tyee COVID-19 normalized vaccination for adults, and we should go further to protect people from shingles and RSV.

I cannot agree more! The cost of making all vaccines free will be completely offset by lives saved and all the morbidity & hospical costs averted

Why All Vaccines Should Be Free

@crof.bsky.social

thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

See this? This = implanting mouse embryo. Usually this happens inside its mother and is invisible to us, but we can actually watch implantation ex vivo with the hope of understanding why implantation goes awry in embryos of older women. A 🧵...

Stress granules formed during different RNA virus infections show remarkable plasticity and substantial virus-specific differences in their formation and composition https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.14.670263v1

Why ‘flag wars’ are scaring overseas students and risk deepening unis’ cash crisis ‘It’s mad in Britain. Will I be ok?’. International students about to study in UK universities are alarmed by the country's new political climate

“Unfortunately, we have a Labour government seemingly determined to outflank Reform on immigration . . .These attacks are having a severe impact on the financial health of the sector” - @drjogrady.bsky.social in the @theipaper.com today

inews.co.uk/news/flag-wa...

Hand drawn picture with a legend

I wish my all my students labeled their figures as well as my daughter.

Excited to share my postdoc work from the Eggeling lab in Jena (@leibnizipht.bsky.social, #FSUJena, #KTHuniversity) on bringing smart microscopy to super-resolution MINFLUX: event-triggered MINFLUX microscopy.

Our lab has an opening for a research technician to contribute to our efforts to understand RSV evolution & its impact on antibody countermeasures (see journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....). The tech will also help w lab management.

If interested, apply here: careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/29940/job

YouTube video by Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery The Screaming Sky: The strange allure of swifts. Charles Foster

Have you noticed the skies have gone quiet? The swifts have flown to Africa, leaving a silence where their screams once danced. I miss their wild shrieks already! If you do too, watch Charles Foster’s beautiful talk: 'The Screaming Skies' — a love song to their joyful chaos.

📢 PSA:
🧬 We all have mRNA — it’s how cells make the proteins we need to live.

💉 COVID-19 vaccine mRNA is lab-made 🏭, teaches your immune system 🛡️ to fight the virus, never enters the nucleus, and is gone in days ⏳.

Microscopy most especially. To be the first human to ever lay eyes on something. What a feeling.

SPOTTED: IAV NP mRNA interacting with RBM3
#fluorescencefriday #RNAPLA

if you think that's bad, I once saw a kids movie in which boy wizards sneaked into a women's toilet looking for a secret chamber, what kind of sick mind comes up with stuff like that??

📣 I'm recruiting a postdoc researcher to join my team for a project on mosquito-specific viruses and host interactions. Peep the job description & how to apply below. Perfect for soon-to-be or recent PhD graduates in mosquito vector biology 🦟 or arbovirology 🦠
🗓️ Application deadline 31 August 2025

Come join our community science program!! Including online monthly nerd jams meetings open to the public.

Please share far and wide, and welcome our new community coordinator @colinjanthony.bsky.social! 🧪🌊

Induction of tunnelling nanotube-like structures by influenza A viruses requires the onset of apoptosis Author summary Influenza A viruses (IAVs) spread efficiently through the respiratory tract in the form of extracellular virus particles, but can be restricted by neutralising antibodies and antiviral ...

🚨🔎 Out now in PLOS Pathogens ! 🔎🚨 This project has taken us @cvrinfo.bsky.social @uofgmvls.bsky.social on a wild and wonderful journey. I am excited to share our story of how influenza A viruses (IAVs) exploit cell death to facilitate its covert spread. N/1 journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

#FlemingFund - hearing grave concerns about its abolition from the #AMR community.

And not convinced by "function is continuing just not form"

@bsacandjac.bsky.social @microbiologysociety.org @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social @leanahosea.bsky.social #AntiMicrobialResistance #PublicHealth #OneHealth

Call for applications for TB colleagues in India and SEAR region!

2nd Advanced TB Diagnostics Course

A capacity building workshop for countries in the South-East Asian Region

Details and application form available at: nirt.res.in

@academic-chatter.bsky.social when doing peer review, do you validate every reference used by the authors?

Autophagy-lysosome pathways are known targets of intracellular bacteria – Ivan Đikić @idikic.bsky.social et al find Legionella uses phosphoribosyl-ubiquitination via SidE to alter autophagic SNAREs & create a bacteria-containing vacuole unable to fuse with lysosomes
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

This is a great opportunity to establish a virology research group at CIID, Heidelberg University!

Scooped up some prizes
@wwiem-qub.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Research Symposium 2025. Great organization from the PCDC and a wonderful keynote from
Lindsay Broadbent
Thanks to @physoc.bsky.social @microbiologysociety.org and Starlab UK for sponsoring the awards.

The @briggsgroup.bsky.social alongside teams from @uniheidelberg.bsky.social and @yalemicropath.bsky.social uncover elusive role of #HIV-1 component SP2. Detailed 3D views of viruses by #cryoEM show how SP2 helps the virus matrix to mature.
❕Read the paper @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The heart of RSV replication.
Green: RSV N
Red: RSV gRNA
#FluorescenceFriday #HappyValentinesDay

Imaging Single Particle Profiler to Study Nanoscale Bioparticles Using Conventional Confocal Microscopy Single particle profiling (SPP) is a unique methodology to study nanoscale bioparticles such as liposomes, lipid nanoparticles, extracellular vesicles, and lipoproteins in a single particle and high t...

New paper out💥 in Nano Letters @pubs.acs.org
High throughput single particle profiler with simple confocal imaging. We used this new method to study protein-lipid interactions, drug membrane interactions and biophysics of small particles from human donors: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Opinion | Elizabeth Warren Exposes RFK Jr. He wants to keep cashing in on lawsuits against drug makers, as his confirmation hearing for health secretary makes clear.

WSJ blasts Bobby Kennedy for his greed, echoing Elizabeth Warren.
Yes, you are reading that right.

www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

Mapping the complete influenza A virus infection cycle through single vRNP imaging Cell-to-cell heterogeneity is a common feature of viral infection that can generate enormous complexity, complicating understanding of infection progression and interpretation of differences between v...

Our new paper is out: "Mapping the complete influenza A virus infection cycle through single vRNP imaging". Combining newly-developed single-molecule imaging approaches with in situ viral transcriptomics, we identify numerous non-canonical infection pathways.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This is a beautiful and groundbreaking paper, packed with biological insight. Really fantastic work by all of the authors.

Photo of Alex Van Vliet (left) and Katy Yalci (right), holding certificates for their best talk prizes from Journal of Cell Science. The projected slide behind them says, ‘Journal of Cell Science Short Talk Prizes’, below a London Tube map.

Congratulations to the winners of the best talk prizes at the UK Membrane Trafficking meeting #UKMT.
@alex-van-vliet.bsky.social from Sean Munro’s lab @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social won the postdoc prize.
Katy Yalci from Bernadette Carroll’s lab @bristoluni.bsky.social won the PhD prize.

ad for NSV 2025 meeting with views of Montpellier and the Mediterranean sea

Working on Negative Strand RNA viruses? Here is the THE meeting you don't want to miss in 2025: #NSV2025!
It will take place in vibrant Montpellier, South of France, and is organized by Wendy Barclay, Paul Duprex, Sean Whelan and Olivier Moncorgé

Please share widely! #ViroSky #LoveVirology