Meet us in 2 days in Montpellier for the French-Japan Virology symposium!
07.10.2025 17:37 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0@karimaj.bsky.social
Group leader @igmm-montpel.bsky.social studying viruses - ERC Stg- Amateur athlete and musician- Husband and father- Europtimist @biolum-montpellier.bsky.social https://www.igmm.cnrs.fr/en/team/rna-viruses-and-host-factors/
Meet us in 2 days in Montpellier for the French-Japan Virology symposium!
07.10.2025 17:37 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Lead by postdoc in the lab Ruiqi Ge and in collaboration with Bob Coffeyβs lab, we are happy to share rPAL-seq for rapid and sensitive sequencing based profiling of glycoRNAs @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
06.10.2025 13:36 β π 41 π 19 π¬ 1 π 4Thanks Maria @morielab.bsky.social , first time I heard about this journal/platform was thanks to a paper from your lab ;)
04.10.2025 08:19 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0New paper (micro) from our lab : βNo evidence for human or rodent deltavirus replication in yeastβ. A collaboration with Dom helmlingerβs lab .
04.10.2025 06:55 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Our @viroscope.bsky.social Joe McKellar interviewed by The-Scientist Magazine ! Look at all these beautiful cells we have in the lab :)
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Meet us at Genopolys , Montpellier for a France-Japan virology workshop ! 9-10 october 2025 ! 2 exciting days with many viruses! Co-organized with @systemsvirology.bsky.social Kei Sato and Monsef Benkirane @igmm-montpel.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social
17.09.2025 08:56 β π 11 π 5 π¬ 2 π 2Naiavirus: an enveloped giant virus with a pleomorphic, flexible tail
nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63463-6
Registration link : www.eventbrite.com/e/billets-st...
17.09.2025 08:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Meet us at Genopolys , Montpellier for a France-Japan virology workshop ! 9-10 october 2025 ! 2 exciting days with many viruses! Co-organized with @systemsvirology.bsky.social Kei Sato and Monsef Benkirane @igmm-montpel.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social
17.09.2025 08:56 β π 11 π 5 π¬ 2 π 2hey bluesky π visa hurdles mean Iβm looking for opportunities outside the US. Iβm a computational biologist (bacterial + phage genomics, postdoc in Kooninβs group @ NIH). I am interested in teaming up on funding apps. reach out if this resonates!
15.09.2025 17:26 β π 70 π 91 π¬ 1 π 3Endogenous Deltaviruses (EVEs) in termite genomes !
14.09.2025 05:09 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0RIP
08.09.2025 02:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Get fucked, textbooks.
Seriously breaking my PhD in ecology and evolutionary biology brain that this happened.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New pre-print from Doudna lab members @erinedoherty.bsky.social & @jnoms.bsky.social β¨
Here we explore how recurrent adaptation of a single anti-defense protein fold enables evasion of distinct immune systems.
Nature research paper: RNA N-glycosylation enables immune evasion and homeostatic efferocytosis
go.nature.com/41x3bol
Mining Iguana cDNAs for new immune proteins! Incredibly creative screen from Ian Boys and @elearlybird.bsky.social :
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Incredible discovery ! The first known role for sugar coated RNAs : immune evasion ! @raflynn5.bsky.social does it angain with @vinnieviruses.bsky.social @vijayrathinam.bsky.social and colleagues !
06.08.2025 18:52 β π 20 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0RNA N-glycosylation enables immune evasion and homeostatic efferocytosis by chemically caging acp3U. Excited to report this work lead by Vinnie @vinnieviruses.bsky.social and in collaboration with @vijayrathinam.bsky.social in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
06.08.2025 15:36 β π 108 π 46 π¬ 7 π 2Congrats
25.07.2025 16:54 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Proud of Roni , a PhD student from our lab !
07.07.2025 14:48 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A must-read for histone afficionados: our new review on 'Histone-mediated chromatin organization in prokaryotes and viruses' www.cell.com/trends/bioch... @samuelschwab.bsky.social @vikramalva.bsky.social
30.06.2025 07:35 β π 42 π 16 π¬ 0 π 2Beware the tech leaders making grandiose statements about artificial intelligence. They have lost sight of reality, says Philip Ball
07.07.2025 04:50 β π 10 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0A Boa Constrictor brain-derived cell expressing a viral glycoprotein (magenta) and stained for actin (yellow) and DNA (white).
#FluorescenceFriday
Logo of NSV2025 conference with a drawing of the Montpellier skyline
Arrived in Carcassone en route to Montpellier for the XIXth Negative-strand RNA
Virus Meeting
A community-driven & very positive conference all about RNA(-) viruses
Reach out if youβd like to chat - seeing old friends and meeting new people is always the best
www.negativestrandvirus.org/home
Glad to see this paper finally out! An episodic burst of massive genomic rearrangements and the origin of non-marine annelids
@natecoevo.nature.com @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @csic.es @erc.europa.eu www.nature.com/articles/s41...
RNase L Produces tRNA-derived RNAs that Contribute to Translation Inhibition
10.06.2025 18:26 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0𧬠Les obΓ©lisques, nouvelles molΓ©cules dβARN circulaires, intriguent les chercheurs.
@karimaj.bsky.social en parle dans @france3occitanie.bsky.social & @GEO_fr π
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