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Celebrating Brutus’ birthday with the lab and breaking a World Record. #Buckeyesbelong

Careers Minimum qualifications:PhD, MD, or equivalent in a relevant field of study, plus applicable postdoctoral experience.

Excited to announce that we have a new faculty search opening in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Minnesota for a tenure track Assistant Professor in RNA Virology. More info can be found here: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/365...

Idorn, Paludan et al. @au.dk characterize a mouse strain harboring a mutation found in a herpes simplex encephalitis patient. Defective IFN-driven antiviral responses led to hyperactivation of #inflammation, contributing to disease development. rupress.org/jem/article/...

@civia-aarhus.bsky.social

Job alert ‼️ UChicago Micro is hiring! Open to tenured/tenure track faculty at all levels in any area of microbiology. Come join our amazing and growing department. apply.interfolio.com/174404

We are currently in the process of recruiting a technician. 🥼🐭🔬

If you know anyone with enthusiasm to learn new skills and stamina to hear me go on and on about IFNs, please have them reach out to me for more details!

Midwest Virology Symposium was amazing. Strong Ohio representation from friends at OSU and Cleveland Clinic 📸. Huge thanks to colleagues at the University of Kentucky for being generous hosts and putting together a fantastic program to showcase our trainees’ work. #MidwestVirology #MVS

Uncalibrated pipettes.

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Hey friends, it’s Ride Day! I’m pedaling with purpose for Pelotonia to end cancer. Every mile counts and so does your support. 🚴🏼‍♂️ #onegoal www.pelotonia.org/profile/AF74...

10 years ago, SCOTUS made a landmark decision to extend marriage rights and allowed me to finally say yes to a life together with a wonderful human evening. She rocks my world! #anniversary

Manipulation of the nucleotide pool in human, bacterial and plant immunity - Nature Reviews Immunology Modification of the nucleotide pool is emerging as key to innate immunity in animals, plants and bacteria. This Review explains how immune pathways conserved from bacteria to humans manipulate the nuc...

We wrote a review on the free nucleotide pool as a central playground in human, bacterial, and plant immunity – now out in Nature Reviews in Immunology

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Was fun to write this piece with Dina Hochhauser!

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Trump administration ends 988 Lifeline's special service for LGBTQ+ young people Callers to 988 used to be able to press 3 to reach counselors specially trained to help LGBTQ+ young people. The service had been reaching 70,000 people a month.

Callers to 988 used to be able to press 3 to reach counselors specially trained to help LGBTQ+ young people. The service had been reaching 70,000 people a month.

On our way to Montreal for #ASV2025. Make sure to come check out Matt’s (@mattmcfa17.bsky.social) work during W22-6. Can’t wait to see you all! @amersocvirology.bsky.social

One of Ohio’s finest sons. Thank you for your service and contributions to the field!

The reading list keeps growing!!!

📄🧫🔬🐭What are you reading this weekend? Check out @catmphelps.bsky.social, @meisellab.bsky.social, et al’s brand new work! #H2P

Please apply!

You’re killing it! Congrats!

Meet the IUIS 2025 Rising Stars! » IUIS The International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS), together with its Early Career Committee, is delighted to announce the outstanding researchers selected as the IUIS 2025 Rising Stars: This…

So pleased to see @mcsinton.bsky.social listed as part of the #IUIS #Risingstar2025 program! Looking forward to this event in August.

iuis.org/news/meet-th...

Wohoo! Congrats and well-deserved! Hope we get to celebrate soon.

Real Kings value higher learning.

Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia, founded Univerzita Karlova in Prague in 1348. This is the alma mater of many great minds including physiologist Jan Purkyně (Purkinje). His microscope is on display at the National Museum in Prague.

Kurup wins prestigious PATH award for groundbreaking malaria research - UGA Research News Every year, malaria evades the immune defenses of nearly 250 million people. But Samarchith “Sam” Kurup is determined to outsmart the parasite before it strikes. Now, with the Burroughs Wellcome…

From UGA Research News - Kurup wins prestigious PATH award for groundbreaking malaria research
research.uga.edu/news/kurup-w... #bwfpath

Now open - LOIs for the Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH) program. Deadline is July 17 @ 3pm ET.
More information here:
buff.ly/iSu3v60
#bwfpath #GrantOpportunity

Statement from AAI President Stephen C. Jameson on Proposed NIH Funding Cuts  - AAI News AAI is deeply alarmed by the President’s proposal to drastically downsize the NIH by slashing its approximately $47 billion budget in fiscal year (FY) 2025 to just $28 billion in FY 2026.

Proposed cuts to NIH funding threaten American biomedical research, public health, and economic stability. AAI stands in strong opposition and highlights the vital role of NIH in job creation, economic activity, and safeguarding lives.

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An activating Stat1 mutant disrupts normal STAT4 innate lymphocyte programs during viral infection Stat1 gain-of-function mice fail to resolve inflammation in viral infection because of insufficient early STAT4–IFN-γ responses.

Now in #Science #Immunology: Philips, O'Shea, &al. made mice w human pathogenic #STAT1 activating mutation. Mice had #IFNg -dependent #autoimmunity, but their innatelike lymphocytes produced suboptimal IFNg during viral infection. Exogenous IFNg🚫virus-induced lethality, suggesting possible therapy!

Aneuploidy confers a unique transcriptional and phenotypic profile to Candida albicans - Nature Communications Mackey et al report the transcriptional signature and phenotypic features of aneuploid Candida albicans strains which impact infection and susceptibility to environmental stimuli.

From Nature Communications - Aneuploidy confers a unique transcriptional and phenotypic profile to Candida albicans
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #bwfpath

Conservation of regulatory elements with highly diverged sequences across large evolutionary distances Nature Genetics - Combining functional genomic data from mouse and chicken with a synteny-based strategy identifies positionally conserved cis-regulatory elements in the absence of direct sequence...

How to find Evolutionary Conserved Enhancers in 2025? 🐣-🐭
Check out our paper - fresh off the press!!!
We find widespread functional conservation of enhancers in absence of sequence homology
Including: a bioinformatic tool to map sequence-diverged enhancers!
rdcu.be/enVDN
github.com/tobiaszehnde...

Thank you, Alex!

Thanks! We shall celebrate then! See you soon!