Mosquitoes like Aedes aegypti spread viruses that cause major global diseases. We decided to have a closer look at a family of mosquito carbohydrate-binding proteins involved in infecting these vector species. We found some unexpected things 😁
Preprint out now 🦟🦟🦟
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
New week, new HUPs member spotlieght!
👋🏻 Meet Jules Duruz, General Executive. He studies the behaviour of small marine invertebrates to better understand nervous system evolution. He values building a supportive, interdisciplinary postdoc community and especially enjoys HUPs networking events.
New week, new HUPs member spotlight!
👋🏻 Meet Magdalena Wierzbicka, Communication Manager & Event Coordinator. She works on the development of drugs targeting the blood–brain barrier in brain cancers. She enjoys connecting with fellow postdocs while exploring the many paths postdoc life can offer.
Together with colleague and friend Carl Herrmann @uniheidelberg.bsky.social, we are looking for a motivated postdoc with experience in organoid culture and data analysis (#bioinformatics), for a project in the @hlsalliance.bsky.social Joint Postdoc call.
www.health-life-sciences.de/opportunitie...
Cryo-EM structure reveals how influenza A virus NEP binds the viral polymerase at a regulatory hotspot, coordinating RNA synthesis and nuclear export. Fantastic collaboration with @loiccarrique.bsky.social and Jon Grimes. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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New week, new HUPs member!
👋🏻 Meet Oscar O’Dwyer Lancaster-Jones, Treasurer of our network. He develops new methods for engineering heart tissue from many cells. He enjoys being part of a young, interdisciplinary network and helping shape something new at Heidelberg University.
New week, new HUPs member!
👋🏻 Meet Karel Mocaer, Vice-President of our network. She works with volume electron microscopy and complementary techniques to study the visual system of marine flatworms. She is passionate about building platforms that connect postdocs and help access career development!
Adaptation differences and mechanisms of influenza viruses to ANP32 proteins across species journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
05.01.2026 14:31 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0How does it behave for thicker chlamy lamella? 👋
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For our English speaking members (and friends): the polls are in! As of March '26, we will have a new Board of Directors ("Vorstand"), as well as a new Advisory Board ("Beirat").
Our new president will be Prof. Sandra Ciesek (Frankfurt)! Cordial congratulations, Sandra 💐
Further board members ⬇️
Last chace to register for this year's Influenza Update Meeting - and places are going fast. Don't miss out!
Looking forward to seeing you there, flu people
Our new preprint is out 🥳🥳🥳
Henipaviruses, like Nipah and Hendra, package their genomes inside helical shells built by thousands of nucleoproteins. These nucleocapsids are essential to protect the viral RNA, but how do they ever let the polymerase in to read the sequence?
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Mysteries of trafficking of the vRNP segmented genome and assembly of influenza A virus revealed by in situ cryo-ET!
🔗 rdcu.be/eMmct
We are very excited that our paper is finally out!
🎉 Big congratulations to Moritz Wachsmuth-Melm and to everyone involved.
🦠 Abstract submission for the 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for Virology is open!
Share your research with the virology community and help shape the scientific dialogue next year in Heidelberg.
🕐 Deadline: Jan 4, 2026
🔗 virology-meeting.de/programme-ab...
#GfV2026 #virology #virologymeeting
Happens when cars are just seen as one mode of transportation and not religion 😉
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Dear scientific community,
I am looking for two postdoctoral structural biologists to join my group at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Very proud of this achievement. Lots of exciting work ahead - stay tuned!
16.07.2025 19:34 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Big personal news: Today I’ve started as Full Professor & Director of the Molecular Virology Department at Heidelberg University (@uniheidelberg.bsky.social). 1/4
01.07.2025 13:31 — 👍 21 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 2
A new mural has been unveiled in the French city of Roubaix to mark #July4th.
(🎨 Judith de Leeuw)
Out now! A fresh perspective on interferon-mediated antiviral activity -- How many ISGs does it take to inhibit a virus? Perhaps far fewer than we think.
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Repost appreciated:
Open #PhDposition in structural virology in my group! Join us in Umeå, 🇸🇪 to uncover how arboviruses remodel the cellular interior. In situ #cryoET combined with #virology, #cellbiology, and #biophysics.
Deadline 4 May. More info: www.carlsonlab.se/join/
Bon voyage!
12.04.2025 10:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📚🩺 We are launching our MD-PhD program to bridge clinical practice and scientific research. Our goal: training physician-scientists who can tackle global health challenges with agility and expertise.
#GlobalHealth #MedicalResearch
I'm super happy that our story is now published!
📖 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
But what changed compared to the original preprint?
Also, I feel i should post Movie 1 🎥, that inspired the cover. Back when I did the original bluesky thread, movies were not available.
We're on the cover of @science.org this week. Awesome work by @florentwaltz.bsky.social. #CryoET is reaching crazy resolutions inside cells, and this is just the beginning. Fantastic interpretation of the proton motive force by @verenaresch.bsky.social. Always a pleasure making #SciArt with you!🧪🧶🧬🌾
20.03.2025 22:37 — 👍 308 🔁 69 💬 16 📌 2
g-f-v.org/stellungnahm...
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Hundreds of #virologists queing for the dinner party of the #GfV2025 conference in #Hamburg. Thanks a lot to Thomas Dobner and his team for organizing a vibrant #conference of the #DACH society with terrific keynote speakers! 🙏 The GfV board of directors wishes all participants a safe trip home! 🤗
07.03.2025 12:42 — 👍 26 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2
Many thanks to everyone involved in all our work and activities of our young GfV #jGfV.
Many members of the #jGfV Board are here in Hamburg
Can coronaviruses continue to surprise us? This question was answered by keynote speaker Prof. David Veesler from Seattle on day 2.
(HMB)
