Prof. Claudia Nunes Duarte dos Santos (Fiocruz, Brazil) will present the discovery of Pirahy virusβa newly identified alphavirus from Brazilian mosquitoes with features suggesting emergence potential.
Thursday 19th Feb by Zoom.
All welcome! Just DM your email for the link.
13.02.2026 09:34 β
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Zoom seminar:
Drawing on recent mechanistic and genetic studies, Prof Andres Merits' talk will highlight how #alphavirus #replication complex function intersects with innate #immune sensing and restriction, offering fresh perspectives on virusβhost co-evolution and antiviral targeting. All welcome!
13.01.2026 08:01 β
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18.12.2025 09:40 β
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Henrik Salje (Cambridge) joins us to discuss how dengue risk shifts across the lifespan.
His team uses multigenerational cohorts and antigenic cartography to reveal how population immunity is reshaping its ecology, and what this means for disease risk/vaccines.
All welcome! Message us for Zoom link.
11.12.2025 10:50 β
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Our last seminar was so popular, we reached our Zoom capacity for attendees. Folks contacted us to say they couldn't join. Sorry! We plan to increase the capacity by a few hundred, so that this shouldnβt happen again. Thanks for your patience and your interest in these seminars!
24.11.2025 09:30 β
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Later today, Thursday 20th.
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Psyched to say that Mike Diamond is talking at our next seminar. THURSDAY 20th Nov. All welcome!
World leading #virology not to be missed - just email us for a Zoom link.
Please help us with a re-post to get the word out π
13.11.2025 10:28 β
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NEW SEMINAR - Thursday 16th October, all welcome! π¦ How do mosquitoes fight infection at the gene level? Using precision nuclear run-on sequencing (PRO-seq), Pascal and team captured transcription as it happens in Ae aegypti, offering new insights into vector biology and hostβpathogen interactions.
09.10.2025 12:23 β
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See you later today :-)
(Thursday 18th).
18.09.2025 07:58 β
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See you Thursday 18th for our first seminar of the series with the inspiring @priyashah.bsky.social from @ucdavis.bsky.social with her talk
βHarder, better, faster, stronger: integrating virology and engineering to drive discoveryβ.
All welcome! email us for the zoom link.
12.09.2025 07:35 β
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Weβre back with another season of monthly seminars bringing together diverse and leading investigators worldwide to share cutting-edge arbovirus science.
𧬠Topics span molecular virology, virusβvector interactions, epidemiology, pathogenesis, and more.
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3rd Thursday each month
π 11 AM US ET Zoom
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Final seminar before summer break is #Jonathan_Abraham from @harvardmed.bsky.social
With several key recent discoveries on #alphavirus receptor interactions, this is one not to miss.
THURSDAY 19th JUNE.
Re-post to help spread the word. Email to get a #Zoom link. π
12.06.2025 09:48 β
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Final seminar before summer break is #Jonathan_Abraham from @harvardmed.bsky.social
With several key recent discoveries on #alphavirus receptor interactions, this is one not to miss.
THURSDAY 19th JUNE.
Re-post to help spread the word. Email to get a #Zoom link. π
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See you tomorrow (Thursday 15th)!
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Super psyched to have leading investigator @thehornerlab.bsky.social presenting her team's work THURSDAY 15th May on Zoom.
#flavivirus #virus-host-interactions #innate_immunity #DENV #ZIKV
All are very welcome and please re-post to get the word out. Email organisers for Zoom link. See you there!
09.05.2025 10:36 β
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π later TODAY, 17th April.
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It's finally time for some #bunyavirales and #tick borne viruses with Ben Brennan from @cvrinfo.bsky.social and his much anticipated talk, this THURSDAY 17th. All welcome! Please help us with a re-post. π·οΈπ¦ π§«
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A new series of arbovirus talks on π¦ π¦π·οΈπ from key leading investigators, from across the field, and a diversity of career stages, and backgrounds. All welcome!
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Send us an email; address is on the flier
20.03.2025 11:43 β
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Hi everyone, what's up? We have our monthly seminar this week, with some super cool work on arbovirus entry receptors from leading researcher Jolanda Smit from @unigroningen.bsky.social
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NOTE THE EARLIER TIME for everyone outside the USA
17.03.2025 10:24 β
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Excited to announce our next speaker Dr William de Souza who will be presenting work on virus transmission dynamics of #emerging #arboviruses NEXT THURSDAY.
Will be great to get some perspective from an up-and-coming investigator. PLEASE help with a repost for this community driven seminar series.
12.02.2025 13:38 β
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See you later today, Thursday 16th, for this virtual seminar from leading investigator Luke Alphey. π
All welcome!
16.01.2025 09:48 β
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See you THURSDAY 16th for this exciting seminar on the new world of GM #mosquitoes, designed to be refractory to #arbovirus infection, by Prof Luke Alphey, York. All welcome on Zoom - please help with a post!
09.01.2025 12:40 β
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12.12.2024 09:10 β
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Hi peeps! We have a super interesting seminar THIS THURSDAY by Tineke Cantaert. She is an inspiring research director and head of immunology, based in @pasteur.fr Cambodia. All welcome and please re-post to help support!
#dengue #protection #immunology
09.12.2024 11:12 β
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400 followers in 4 days, that's crazy! Anyway, we have this super cool seminar tomorrow (THURSDAY) with @barryrockx.bsky.social . Let us know if you need a zoom link. All welcome!
#virology #high_containment #pathogenesis
20.11.2024 09:33 β
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We have now left X / twitter. Feeling good. But many still to follow. Please do encourage your colleagues/students/friends. π€
15.11.2024 19:46 β
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Super interesting seminar next THURSDAY with @barryrockx.bsky.social presenting his group's latest findings. #emerging_viruses #high_containment #exciting π€© All welcome; please RT! (do we say re-tweet on Blue? π)
14.11.2024 20:47 β
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We are a community driven virology seminar series. Has almost 4K followers on twitter. Just finding feet on π΅. Please do include us!
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A new series of arbovirus talks on π¦ π¦π·οΈπ from key leading investigators, from across the field, and a diversity of career stages, and backgrounds. All welcome!
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