A big „Thank You“ also to my fantastic organisation committee, to all members of my team and to @klausueberla.bsky.social I am looking forward to three exciting days on #HTLV with colleagues and friends😊.
We have three fantastic keynote speakers, Graham Taylor from
Imperial College London, Genoveffa Franchini from the NIH, and Amanda Panfil from The Ohio State University.
We are very grateful to all sponsors of this meeting: @dfg.de and @GRK2504, the BMBF (now BMFTR) and @infect-net.bsky.social
One day left! Starting tomorrow, we will host the #HTLV European Research Network (#HERN2025) meeting at the Institute of Clinical and Molecular Virology at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen and @fau.de. We expect more than 70 participants including leading experts in the field!
Too much protein in the diet appears to carry a risk of atherosclerotic heart disease secondary to leucine's effect. An important report considering recent advocacy for very high-protein diets.
@natmetabolism.nature.com
nature.com/articles/s42...
Roll-out of RSV vaccine and antibody treatment leads to massive drop in US hospitalisations
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
Florian‘s thesis asked:
1️⃣ How is p8 generated from its precursor p12?
➡️ pre-print at www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...
2️⃣ To which cell types is p8 transferred?
3️⃣ What is p8 doing in its acceptor cells?
So stay tuned, there is more to come about Florian‘s findings this year.😀
Congrats to Florian Simon! 🎉 He submitted his PhD thesis today.
Looking forward to your defense! #ProudPI
What did Florian discover? 🔬
Florian studied the #HTLV protein p8, which is important for establishing infection in vivo.
p8 is a mobile protein and transferred to target cells within minutes.
It was a great pleasure to talk about prevention strategies and milk transmission of #HTLV at the 5th Infect-Net meeting @tum.de. Great to have such a powerful network of #WomeninScience.
🥂 Ein Grund zu Feiern: Wir haben den Verband Deutscher Infektionsforscherinnen gegründet! 👩🔬🦠🥳
Am 25. März 2025 haben wir in München einen Verein gegründet, um die Ziele und die Mission von #InfectNet langfristig weiterzuführen und weiterzuentwickeln. 💜 #megastolz
👉 www.infectnet.org/web/blog-pos...
📰✨ Wir sind sehr happy darüber, dass wir Infect-Net in der aktuellen Ausgabe des #BioSpektrums vorstellen durften! 🚀
Schaut mal rein:
👀👉 rdcu.be/efwbV
@gbmev.bsky.social @vaam-microbes.bsky.social @vbio.bsky.social @gabrielepradel.bsky.social @kkubatzky.bsky.social
🚀 It's a wrap! 🥂 At our 5th network meeting at @tum.de in Munich, we not only discussed issues of #globalhealth and #ethics in infection research, we also held the inaugural meeting of the German association of Women in #Infection Research! 💜 More details will follow shortly 🥳🤯 stay tuned!
“Health researchers who work in South Africa are on red alert after hearing today that the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) could terminate all grants that fund work in that country within days.”
More concerning news here from Sara Reardon
🧪 #IDsky
Wer ist von einer dieser Unis? Habt Ihr da mitgemacht?
Wissenschaftler*in? Dann unterschreibt hier:
www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/s4f/de/top/o...
Wer die Wahl hat, hat es gut. 🗳️ Das heißt nicht, dass alles immer einfach und simpel ist. Aber genau deshalb sind unsere Stimmen so wichtig.
👇Mehr zur Aktion #Zusammenland: www.fau.de/2025/02/news...
Most of the fellows in CDC’s highly competitive Laboratory Leadership Service were fired last weekend.
The ultracompetitive, 2-year program, which trains Ph.D. scientists in the intricacies of public health laboratory work. scim.ag/4gPy0te
“USAID-backed studies have been shuttered, data streams have dried up, researchers and technical staff have been fired or put on leave, a system to predict food crises has been muzzled, and a USAID-supported global health journal has stopped reviewing manuscripts.”
From our @science.org news team 🧪
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has mandated that all scientific manuscripts produced by its researchers that are under review at a journal be withdrawn so that certain language relating to gender can be stripped from them.
https://go.nature.com/40YJGp4
Am 4. Februar ist #Weltkrebstag – ein Anlass, auf HPV-bedingten Krebs bei Männern aufmerksam zu machen. #ZahldesMonats #HPV
💪 Die #STIKO empfiehlt auch Jungen die HPV-Impfung. Doch in Deutschland sind erst rund ein Drittel der 15-jährigen Jungen vollständig geimpft.
🔗 rki.de/zahldesmonats
Great news from #BayFrance!
They fund travel costs for the collaboration between Dr. Ignacio Fernández from @virusfusion007.bsky.social @pasteur.fr and us @fau.de to get a better understanding on #HTLV neutralization! We are looking forward to the scientific exchange with Ignacio! 👍🏻
Immune cell sequencing from birth to old age
"Using our lifecycle-wide single-cell dataset covering 13 age groups over the extent of the human lifespan...."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sie suchen #Infektionsforscherinnen? Wir haben ein #StarterPack mit allen Infect-Net-Wissenschaftlerinnen auf BlueSky zusammengestellt:
🇬🇧 Curious about contributions of women in #infection research? We put together a StarterPack with all our Infect-Net experts on BlueSky 🦋
👉 go.bsky.app/JU8KaeQ
The bidirectional transfer of mitochondria between cancer and immune cells is a newly discovered mechanism that thwarts anticancer defences
https://go.nature.com/3PNuEfh
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM), one of the largest life sciences societies, is partnering with the GfV to advance virology research and global collaboration.
You can find more information here: asm.org/Press-Releas... (IVC)
Unsere Lieblingsbuchhandlung in Hannover ist auch dabei. Man kann alles online bestellen!
Aber zum Nachschauen nehme ich doch die Amazonen-Website. 😉
In a great collaboration with @hummerlab.bsky.social and the Kräusslich lab: HIV capsid doesn't break at the NPC; instead, it cracks open the NPC itself! Details in Cell: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... @mpibp.bsky.social @uniheidelberg.bsky.social A thread below:
Erstmals seit Ende der 1980er Jahre wurde in Deutschland wieder ein Fall von Maul- und Klauenseuche (MKS), verursacht durch das Maul- und Klauenseuche-Virus (MKSV; FMDV), bei Wasserbüffeln nachgewiesen, wie das Friedrich-Löffler-Institut berichtet.
www.fli.de/de/aktuelles...
(BM)
The potential importance of reactivation of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) as a contributing factor to developing Alzheimer's disease
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Our paper on the mechanisms of sterlizing immunity against #HIV was just published at Plos Pathogens: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Congrats to Elie Richel and many thanks to Christiane Stahl-Hennig for the long and fruitfull collaboration! 🧪 #AIDS
The potential role of CMV and the gut-brain axis in Alzheimer's disease
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
open-access
A wonderful Christmas present from PLOS and the Gates Foundation!
We look forward to seeing how you will use this funding to help create a more equitable funding landscape.
