Molly Ohainle

Global Landscape of Human Kinase Motifs in Viral Proteomes Viruses are classically viewed as targets of host sensing, yet whether they also sense and respond to host cues remains largely unexplored. We propose that host-driven post-translational modification ...

Thrilled to share the first major preprint from the lab. Viruses are classically viewed as targets of host sensing. Do viruses also sense and respond to the host? We propose viruses may act as “biosensors” of the host signaling state. A thread👇🏾 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Put a perspective piece together on how fever may have driven the evolution of antiviral genes: rupress.org/jem/article/...

1/ We are making progress towards finding a cure for HIV. In a trial @UCSF led by Steve Deeks and @michaelpelusomd.bsky.social, 7/10 participants who received a combination of immunotherapies achieved partial control of HIV after stopping antiretroviral therapy (ART).🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Amazing! Congrats to Aida. So very well deserved. 👏👏👏

And you can take partial credit anytime Harmit.

👏 very nice. Congrats all!

We're hiring in my Division of Berkeley MCB. Come be my new colleague!

Hypermutable hotspot enables the rapid evolution of self/non-self recognition genes in Dictyostelium Cells require highly polymorphic receptors to perform accurate self/non-self recognition. In the amoeba Dicytostelium discoideum, polymorphic TgrB1 & TgrC1 proteins are used to bind sister cells and e...

I'm excited to announce our new biorxiv preprint, wherein we investigate the evolution of the weirdest genetic locus I've ever seen! Behold the tgr genes of the social amoeba, which mediate self/non-self discrimination during facultative multicellularity 🐅 🧵 1/
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Virologist and HIV expert Dr. Michael Emerman retires During his 36-year career at Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Michael Emerman, PhD, made fundamental discoveries about HIV, the retrovirus that causes AIDS. He co-founded the field of paleovirology and consi...

During his 36-year career at Fred Hutch, @memerman.bsky.social made fundamental discoveries about HIV, co-founded the field of paleovirology and mentored generations of scientists. bit.ly/4nMqOmr @hutchbasicsci.bsky.social

Congrats Carla!

Text reads "Congratulations to the 2025 Leading Edge Fellows" followed by the Leading Edge logo and www.leadingedgesymposium.org. Below are the headshots and names of the 40 new Leading Edge Fellows. They are Cel Welch Lianna Wat Maria Toro Moreno Sarah Talley Xulu Sun Ines Sturmlechner Virginia Savy Amelie Raz Kali Pruss Caterina Profaci Sarah Pierce Melissa Pamula Kehinde Odufowora Patricia Nano Ariana Musa de Aquino Nour El Houda Mimouni Kathleen Martin Brea Manuel Mable Lam Miri Krupkin Elaine Kouame Megan Kirchgessner Sumin Kim Shubhangini Kataruka Geraldine Jowett Andrea Jones Leanne Iannucci Emily Heckman Allison Girasole Florencia Fernandez Chiappe Tonie Farris Hannah Elam Erin Doherty Xiaoyun Ding Maria Bustillo Julia Brunner Debadrita Bhattacharya Lorena Benedetti Ashley Anderson Krisha Aghi

We are thrilled to announce the 2025 Leading Edge Fellows! 40 outstanding postdoctoral fellows doing pioneering research in a wide range of biological and biomedical disciplines.

Learn more about these exceptional scientists:

www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows

Not that I know of…

Congrats Tamanash!

#standupforscience2025
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We find better yield from preps grown at 30 in Stbl cells but have also prepped at 37 in standard dh5 with no recombination issues

I’ve been seething and grieving since yesterday’s Friday Night Massacre of NIH overheads, a seeming bit of bureaucratic trivial that will in fact destroy the US university system if unchecked. But I want to get away from budgets and rate breakdowns and F&A percentages for a moment.

Humor me?

Congratulations @memerman.bsky.social! - former trainee whose life was transformed by your mentorship 🙋‍♀️

Amazing! Congratulations @memerman.bsky.social. So very well deserved.

I was able to catch up with quite a few old friends and make some new ones

And I can verify that those mountains really are just behind campus - beautiful!

I had a fantastic visit to the University of Utah Human Genetics Department this week full of fantastic scientific conversations

This was a trainee-invited seminar (the best!) so special thanks to the postdocs in the department for the invite

Very nice story Ed, congrats!

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Hello! I’m new here. If you follow me on the other place give me a follow here so I can find you

We are excited to welcome rotation student, Bridgett Rios, to the lab

Bridgett comes to us from the Infectious Diseases and Immunity Ph.D. program

Welcome Bridgett!

This is the first graduate student I've mentored to graduate so particularly special for me

This is also likely to only student I will have the privilege to have co-mentored with my own Ph.D. mentor (Michael Emerman)

Excited to see what's ahead for Joy

I had a fantastic visit to UVA Dept of Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology for a Seminar this week

Many thanks to A@annacliffe1.bsky.social for the invite!

The Ohainle Lab is excited to welcome two @BerkeleyMCB rotation students this Fall: Anthony Vo and Michael Singer.

Welcome!

UC Berkeley School of Public Health is hiring. Apply!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04071

Fantastic day on Lake Tahoe with the Ohainle Lab and the Nuñez Lab