Ellen Lee Macdonald Suder, PhD

flying through Barcelona to #NSV2025 was all worth it for this ridiculously buff horse statue

21.06.2025 14:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

image depicts a blonde woman in Boston University doctoral graduate regalia, a red robe with black velvet stripes on the sleeves, a black velvet tam hat, and a blue velvet hood around her neck, indicating award of a PhD in biomedical sciences. she stands on a stage in front of the university seal and is grinning widely. the black sleeve of her mentor is visible behind her, standing on the holding platform.

image depicts two doctors turning to hug each other on the graduation stage: in front, a blonde woman in BU doctoral graduate regalia, a red robe with black velvet stripes on the sleeves, a tam and tassel, and a blue velvet hood indicating a PhD in biomedical sciences; behind, a dark haired woman in black regalia indicating her professorship. they stand in front of the Boston University seal.

it's finally official!!

...anyone looking for a postdoc with five years of BSL-4 experience, extensive familiarity with filovirus minigenomes, and above-average skill at roller skating?

20.05.2025 15:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bat Cells in a Dish Offer a Tool to Study Their Viral Responses Bats harbor viral human pathogens without getting sick. A new cell line could open doors to new therapies based on these flying mammals’ immune secrets.

Check out @stephseifertphd.bsky.social's amazing work with bat cell lines in The Scientist! www.the-scientist.com/bat-cells-in...

19.05.2025 21:33 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

the title, author list, dedication, and truncated top half of an abstract of a journal article titled "the nucleotide sequence of the L gene of Marburg virus, a filovirus" by Mühlberger et al. hand drawn annotation on the photo circles a line of text reading "dedicated to Prof Dr G A Martini on the occasion of his 75th birthday"

back in the day (earlier 90s) you could give somebody a peer-reviewed viral polymerase sequence as a public birthday card. I think we should start doing that again

20.03.2025 22:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

a hand-lettered protest sign on cardboard (suspiciously similar to a Thermo Fisher product shipping box) which reads, in all caps: "nobody gets to silence my science. except reviewer #2"

went to #standupforscience and found that my sign resonated with a lot of folks. was it the peer review joke or the thermo fisher logo on the back of the box panel? who's to say!

07.03.2025 23:08 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

thank you, and can't wait for when it's your turn!!

24.02.2025 18:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

six years and change of work has been proven worth it because on Friday I got a PhD and TWO SWORDS

24.02.2025 06:11 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

a textbook (Methods in Molecular Biology, Marburg virus) spread open to a diagram detailing production of transcription- and replication-competent virus-like particles (trVLPs). the authors named at the top of the page are Ellen L Suder and Adam J Hume.

first time seeing my own figures in physical print! I made this!! it's in a real textbook!!! I'm a normal amount of excited about this

18.12.2024 17:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

granted, I haven't received a copy of the final product in any form but it's not like we get paid to write these, so I'm certainly hopeful that Springer will at least comp me an epub copy

27.11.2024 16:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Marburg Virus This volume explores advancements in the study of the Marburg virus, and challenges with developing effective medical countermeasures against this virus.

my MARV methods textbook chapters are finally published!! doi.org/10.1007/978-...

27.11.2024 16:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0