Swathi Sukumar

📣 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

Trump says RFK Jr will “investigate” the link between vaccines and autism as “somebody needs to find out.”

We’ve ALREADY FOUND OUT
- >600,000 kids in Denmark
- >90,000 in the US
- >1.2m kids worldwide

NO LINK.

How many more of these does he want us to do?

I participated in a faculty panel a few weeks ago in which senior (ahem) faculty gave advice on careers in academia by pretending luck had very little to do with our success. One piece of advice riled me up, in which it was argued that a reason for their success was their ability to say no. 1/

IF/THEN Women in Science Collection <a href="https://www.ifthenshecan.org/about/"><img src="https://kids.frontiersin.org/files/if-when_logo.png" alt="IF/THEN Initiative" style="width:40%"> </a><br/><br/>Science is everywhere! Whether we...

Do you have kids in your life who are interested in science? They might love this collection of papers in Frontiers for Young Minds authored by IF/THEN Women in Science (including one led by yours truly)!

🧵 of all the papers in the collection 👇

kids.frontiersin.org/collections/...

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

Off to Glasgow for the Influenza update meeting. Guess my jacket isn’t really made for executing the “travel hacks”
Super excited to be back in the city where my Virology life began!

Dengue is classified as an urban disease. Mosquitoes don’t care Infectious diseases are often labeled “urban” or “rural.” Applying political labels to public health misses who is at risk, experts argue.

🦟' #Dengue is classified as an urban disease. #Mosquitoes don’t care. Terms like “urban” and “rural” have more to do with politics than #PublicHealth.' by Sujata Gupta
@sciencenews.bsky.social @sjryan3.bsky.social
www.sciencenews.org/article/deng...

Whole mount imaging of synovial knee joint shows distribution of three types of macrophages

Why do infectious & autoimmune diseases result in joint pain or inflammation?
Tetsuo Hasegawa & Menna Clatworthy, in the @cambridge-uni.bsky.social Molecular Immunity Unit housed at the LMB, imaged an entire knee joint to answer this question.

Read more: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/why-do-infec...

Ad26.RSV.preF completely protects calves from severe respiratory disease induced by bovine RSV challenge - npj Vaccines npj Vaccines - Ad26.RSV.preF completely protects calves from severe respiratory disease induced by bovine RSV challenge

Ad26.RSV.preF completely protects calves from severe respiratory disease induced by bovine RSV challenge
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A photo of the Sir Michael Stoker Building, a research centre housed inside a golden metal cube, against the parkland of the Garscube campus as the sun rise lights up the clouds above the Campsie Fells. Image Credit: Rob Gifford.

Do you want to become a virologist?
The @CVRinfo PhD programme is now recruiting for both UK and international applicants - rotate in two labs then choose a project tailored to your interests.
Also you get to live in Glasgow, which is fab.
Please RT!
www.findaphd.com/phds/program...