If you want to join a team making pathogen sequencing and analysis for public health, surveillance, and research more accessible, more equitable and more ✨awesome✨ - look no further - come join us on this mission at ARTIC!
#openscience #opendata #opensource
Please share with junior faculty working on HIV/AIDS cure topics: researchscholars.gilead.com/hiv_us/about
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Condensates are powerful ways to break symmetry and cells do remarkable things with them. Here we show that in a multinucleate fungus, a condensate regulates translation of a cyclin and a formin in distinct locations.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Happy to report that we submitted a new manuscript this week.
The manuscript is abour our work untargeting wastewater sequencing as a technique for monitoring viral pathogens from wastewater. @lennijusten.bsky.social
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We found a viral Trojan Horse: a virus can hide inside another virus.This one surprised us: deltaviruses don’t just borrow a helper virus. They can travel inside it.
A literal Trojan Horse “virus-in-a-virus” route into cells. 🤯 Kudos to 1st author @viroscope.bsky.social and co-authors !
I've written a review on what I think is an extremely exciting direction in cryo-EM:
Cryo-EM of endogenous membrane proteins in their native lipid bilayer
Open access in Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics:
doi.org/10.1017/S003...
Thinking about a #virology #postdoc in academia, industry, or government?
Register now for @amersocvirology.bsky.social #ASV365 webinar on finding the right fit for your postdoc!
Register: albany.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Fill out our presurvey with your questions: forms.gle/TzK73NUWRUqZ...
"Brian looks for enzymes that have evolved to harness them for new, industrial uses, like the deconstruction of biomass for use in biorenewable chemicals and fuels," says Jennifer Gottwald, WARF director of licensing.
It is a great sadness to hear of Robin’s passing.
He was one of the finest virologists of all time and contributed immeasurably to the field of HIV/retrovirology.
He was a key mentor for a vast number of leading virologists and cancer researchers. And great fun!
So many of us owe him our careers
Congrats, Ahna!
We are deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of David Botstein, a towering figure in modern #genetics and a foundational force behind SGD.
www.yeastgenome.org/blog/in-memo... #yeast #modelOrganism
Best wishes to Cancer Biology gradaute student Zach Kauffman (Lang lab) as he defends his dissertation this week!
See you next Saturday, Pittsburgh!
We have an open position for a #PhD student (last week to apply!) & a lab technician/TA. For more information see: www.beuschlab.org/join-us
Interested in understanding post-transcriptional regulation and how #RNA #splicing decisions are made? Then take a look or share with people who might be! 🧪🧫
Most viruses rely on the host to provide the entire translation machinery. However, giant viruses have evolved to encode part of the machinery themselves. Latest discovery: mimivirus (APMV) encodes its own initiation factor (vIF4F) and specifically promotes translation of viral mRNA!
NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)
Directorates to follow
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Nodavirus protein A's interdomain elbow controls RNA replication organelle formation and function pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41755640/ #cryoEM
Postbac positions available in experimental and computational biology working on #virusevolution, tick-borne viruses and computational drug discovery! Reach out if you’d like to discuss projects in the #QVEU at NIH-NIAID. Please share with any talented undergrads or MS students you know!
Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.
The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇
I had to renegotiate my F99/K00 award twice in 6 months, and on both occasions I asked what specifically “DEI activities” means. I didn’t get clear answers, so I was hopeful the person that directive came from could specify (the NIH Director). I asked the on @whyshoulditrustyou.bsky.social podcast
If you want a science cleanse today, read and celebrate the accomplishments of these amazing young scientists
New paper in insight.jci.org by my & Ling Lin’s groups! TB is the most common infectious disease that causes death, causing >1 million deaths globally. HIV is the greatest risk factor for TB, causing worse clinical outcomes for both infections. We studied the effect of SIV infection 1/4
Already time for the next Maxigroup! Can't wait to host @oawlab.bsky.social to talk about mechanisms and therapies related to splicing & cancer! Next Tues, March 3 at 5:30pm! Thanks to @bmolchem.bsky.social @uwbiochem.bsky.social the CMB program and @rnasociety.bsky.social for sponsorship!
Our department at Genentech is hiring. We're looking for a freshly-minted PhD (0-3 years) protein biochemist / structural biologist to join as a Sr Scientist. A rare opportunity to join our group leader job family at a more junior level than we usually hire.
In academic depts, ‘jobs’ for many folks increased manifold in the past 15 months with no pay increases. They talk to your trainees & junior colleagues and talk them off high ledges. They organize and fight for the greater good.
Find them. Celebrate them. Reward them.
Don’t take them for granted.
Nature research paper: Integrase anchors viral RNA to the HIV-1 capsid interior
go.nature.com/3OlzcfC
Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is one of the delayed complications of measles and affects up to 1 in 600 unvaccinated children who’ve had measles. It occurs without warning an average of 7 years after infection and can occur decades later. There is no cure and it is almost always fatal.
I and my USG colleagues would go to external meetings where lunch would be served and to follow the rules we had to pay for our sandwiches.
