Koenraad Van Doorslaer

Challenge accepted

Honored that our latest study was chosen as Paper of the Week by IPVS. It was spearheaded by student Jonathan Shin with the help of great collaborators 😄

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📢New job posting!📢
Are you excited by the idea of building global infrastructure to make pathogen sequencing more accessible, interpretable, and equitable? 🧑🏻‍💻🧬

My group at @swisstph.ch has an opening working with ARTIC2, @pathoplexus.org, & Loculus - read on!

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Does anyone know of an immigration lawyer in Pennsylvania who may be willing to do some pro bono work for a student who is being detained by DHS? This student was finalizing their green card application and was taken a week ago. Please hit me up.

Welcome to campus

Congratulations

Exciting news: Carla Saleh is now Chair of Virology at Pasteur! Congrats to Carla and all who will benefit from her exceptional leadership!

Thank you Jim and Liz!

RFK Jr.'s Vaccine Panel Puts Our Nation at Risk The move by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to replace medical experts with anti-vaxxers will be catastrophic.

A new OpEd by @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social and me about the dangers of RFKJr appointing a new vaccine advisory committee. progressive.org/op-eds/rfk-j...

Preprint on "Improving spliced alignment by modeling splice sites with deep learning". It describes minisplice for modeling splice signals. Minimap2 and miniprot now optionally use the predicted scores to improve spliced alignment.
arxiv.org/abs/2506.12986

What he said... ✊
Rage against the machine

Good morning to those USA military personnel who are looking to file as a conscientious objector. You don't have to obey unlawful orders, and in fact you must not.

There's a website for you. I hear the phone line is pretty tied up right now, because you are not alone.

Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints

editorial cartoon that says happy birthday dear leader, and shows tanks, imperial troopers from Star Wars, and people throwing money at Trump

The Autocrat's parade, by @anntelnaes.bsky.social

Dogme: A nextflow pipeline for reprocessing nanopore RNA and DNA modifications pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40501581/ 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/mortazavilab...

It’s a rough life 😊

Here is the official posting for a faculty job in Pharmacology and Therapeutics at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center! Feel free to DM or email with questions.
roswellpark.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Ext-RP...

My HPC team at UC Davis is hiring! Looking for an experienced sysadmin to help build and maintain clusters (hardware and software). HPC experience great, but if you’re an experienced sysadmin and willing to learn, please apply!

careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psc/ucdavis/...

A cartoon showing various activity at an airport, including an extorted luxury jet, an exploding X rocket, a ketamine enthusiast wheeling a barrow of money to his plane, many ICE officers -- some taking people to an El Salvador plane, another with a zip-tied child being blocked by a federal judge -- scientists boarding a plane to Europe, a medical self-educator covered with pox, and more. All the people are represented by various animals. The story is made in the style of a Richard Starry children's book. Alt text borrowed from Mastodon..

“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport”

By Ruben Bolling

Genius. Click in.

AI can simulate millions of hypotheses in seconds, but only science can tell us which ones matter. We can automate analysis, but not imagination. The scientific spark is still, and always, human.

Job opportunity: Research Technician at VIDO

Calling all virologists: my lab is hiring a tech for high containment work! Come work with our amazing team at 🇨🇦's National Pandemic Research Centre, using experimental, systems biology, & AI-driven approaches to study infection & pathogenesis of emerging viruses.
vido.applytojobs.ca/research/38682

Sorry man. I cannot begin to imagine.

The Geordi LaForge meme The top panel says: "Your best university faculty are constantly being recruited by other institutions." The bottom panel says: "Don't treat your faculty poorly."

Consequences...

The median number of Measles deaths among children in the US for the last 50 years has been 0.

That's the benchmark. ANY more is a failure of policy. Bobby is currently a failed Secretary.

You cannot yadda-yadda the life of a child that should not die.

Are you a postdoc ready for transition to an independent position? You connect infection biology with cutting-edge structural biology or multimodal imaging? Are you aware of such a colleague?

I am seeking speakers for "The Next Generation in Infection Biology" microsymposium on June 6 2025.

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

Image of Rose Tico from The Last Jedi, saying, "That's how we're gonna win. Not fighting what we hate, but saving what we love".

We know we've been going in on some Star Wars rebellion quotes lately but this one really sings to how we want to fight. Gnight folks!

This one by Rose Tico, in The Last Jedi

a man in a suit and tie is making a peace sign and the word watch is above him ALT: a man in a suit and tie is making a peace sign and the word watch is above him

Don’t start

Good name for a band though