Heading home after a rich day full of science at @institutpasteur.bsky.social. Warm thanks to @julianbuchrieser.bsky.social and Olivier Schwartz for the kind invite!
10.01.2026 07:15 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
3/ in "shock-and-kill" approaches, as we found (link to studies below). Indeed, the authors don't seem to generate evidence for detectable reduction of the reservoir size, and (temporal) virus control seems to be achieved predominantly by T-cell responses. #HIVCure is not around the corner!
23.12.2025 19:10 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
2/ special profile from start on which may potentially have facilitated things). I really do wonder if the chosen LRA, the TLR9 agonist lefitolimod, modulates cell surface Env presentation (important for ADCC), and/or apoptosis. Many (but not all!) LRAs do, and paradoxically impede "kill"
23.12.2025 19:10 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
1/ I agree that (even functional) #HIVCure will probably need a multi-component and staged strategy, and is not close. This multi-pronged approach shows, 18 months post ATI, a delay of viral rebound in 6/9 participants, and remission in 1/9 participants (though the latter seems to display a
23.12.2025 19:10 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Definitely exciting and even more puzzling. Note that the patient himself was heterozygous for CCR5delta32. So either there is a dosage effect of truncated CCR5, and/or (more provocative) the CCR5 genotype is less relevant than we all anticipated and the allo-SCT per se does large part of the trick?
23.12.2025 18:09 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Last month, my team had the great pleasure of hosting a fantastic guest PhD student, Bridget Fisher, from Sharon Lewin's lab at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, for our collaborative work on #HIVCure. Looking fwd to continuing this exciting joint study. Very well done Bridget!
23.12.2025 17:25 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Absolutely privileged to have met Michel Sidibé, AU Envoy for African Medicines Agency, former @unaids.org Director & Mali Health Minister. Our chat spanned topics ranging from #HIVcure development to implementation. Should a cure be discovered, do we have systems to ensure equitable access?
10.12.2025 17:12 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dylan Postmus giving a presentation on his work at the RetroPATH meeting
View from a boat ride on the Neckar River in Tübingen, Germany.
Had an excellent time at this year’s #RetroPATH2025 meeting in Tübingen, Germany, talking about my work on #HIVcure. Many thanks to @agschindler.bsky.social and Daniel Sauter for hosting. Especially interesting was the variety of talks on #HERVs @goffinetlab.bsky.social @lstmnews.bsky.social
19.10.2025 21:16 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
I am very pleased to be hosting @goffinetlab.bsky.social from @lstmnews.bsky.social tomorrow, sponsored by @infect-net.bsky.social
📣: Feodor-Lynen lecture hall @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social
🕙 18.9. 1:00 pm
17.09.2025 12:02 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Many thanks Prof Henry Mwandumba and Prof Kondwani Jambo & teams for the warm welcome and hospitality at Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Research Programme, Blantyre. We had fantastic discussions and developed prospects for collaboration on #HIVCure. A truly inspiring visit!
08.09.2025 17:42 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Julia Prigann, PhD | UCSF-Bay Area Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)
Congratulations to @juliaprigann.bsky.social for being awarded the 2025 CFAR Excellence in Basic/Translational Science Award!
cfar.ucsf.edu/user/11703
17.07.2025 17:16 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
En route pour Lyon. Je me réjouis de présenter quelques snapshots de notre recherche @lstmnews.bsky.social sur le Chikungunya virus #CHIKV et son interaction avec le système immunitaire inné! #JFV2025
23.04.2025 17:02 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Shout-out to @dylanpostmus.bsky.social speaking at #MicroBio25. Just in time before heading to Keystone Symposium on #HIVCure keysym.us/KSHIV25
Stay tuned!
04.04.2025 15:17 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy to be part of the EU consortium DEFENDER @horizoneu.bsky.social and contribute to discovery of novel entry factors of #CHIKV, laying the ground for development of antiviral therapies @lstmnews.bsky.social
25.03.2025 08:54 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
#InternationalWomensDay2025
“When I’m sometimes asked 'When will there be enough?’ and I say ‘When there are nine,’ people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
1933-2020
08.03.2025 09:55 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Due to high interest in the role, the ad will be kept live until March 9th:
25.02.2025 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Deadline for submission of applications for the role of Chair in Immunology at @lstmnews.bsky.social is March 2nd 👇
13.02.2025 20:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join me at the LSTM in Conversation Webinar with Barry Atkinson @ukhsa.bsky.social and @gsrajahram.bsky.social in less than two days!
Sign up via the link in the description 👇
10.02.2025 19:01 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Of course, costs for Skilled Worker VISA application and NHS surcharges will be covered by LSTM.
29.01.2025 22:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy to be part of the new Horizon EU consortium DEFENDER and to start characterising CHIKV-modulating cellular factors and their druggability!
15.01.2025 17:17 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Will make sure to provide support for VISA/IHS costs
19.10.2023 11:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
💥 Postdoc position advert in the making (to be filled early 2024 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine): if you are interested in investigating arthritogenic alphavirus infections in human cells and mosquitoes, with a focus of cell-intrinsic innate immunity, sensing and viral evasion, stay tuned 💥
19.10.2023 11:29 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Group Leader at @pasteur.fr in Paris | Member of the @virusfusion007 Unit | Biochemist PhD, Structural biologist | #herpes #ERVs #retroviruses
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Reader in Tuberculosis & Social Medicine, Hospital Doctor in Infectious Diseases, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
Committed to addressing health and socioeconomic inequalities.
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Virologist & Research Group Leader at @unituebingen.bsky.social
Fascinated by viruses, innate immunity, evolution — and birds 🐦
#Virology #HIV #HERVs #Retrotransposons #Placenta #Birds
Dr. med. Cihan Çelik, Facharzt für Innere Medizin und Pneumologie, Sektionsleiter Pneumologie am Klinikum Darmstadt. FAS Interviewserie "Wie ist die Lage, Herr Doktor" seit 2020. Medizin, Wissenschaft, Humanismus.
Chair in Virology and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
Arboviruses, emerging viruses, viruses of parasites!
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Home to more than 2,000 scientists and a free public exhibition space.
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Team leader of the Virus Host Interaction Team University of York, Skin Research Centre; 🇬🇧🇪🇺🏳️🌈 (he/him) co-chairs @Arbovirus seminars.
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I enjoy working with incredible people to mitigate the impact of severe infections and outbreaks of public health interest. https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/malcolm-semple
Consultant in infectious diseases at Liverpool University Hospitals, Professor of Immunity and Infectious Diseases at the University of Liverpool @liverpooluni.bsky.social. I work on immunology/viral pathogenesis.
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Applied biologist studying host-microbe interactions - from insect bacterial symbionts to human viruses. Co-director of the Centre for Genomic Research, which hosts the NERC NEOF facility at the University of Liverpool. 3D printing, Star Wars and rugby fan
Associate Professor at Emory University. Director of Center for Childhood Infections and Vaccines; Virologist; Immunologist; Emerging Viruses
The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
PhD candidate at #ChariteVirology. Interested in epidemiology and diagnostics of emerging viruses.
Cell Biology meets Immunology and Virology, spiced up with nanobodies
