Mireille Farjo

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

23.09.2025 17:39 — 👍 31551    🔁 19105    💬 1201    📌 1752

wow, congrats!!

04.09.2025 02:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

TreeSort is out at MBE! Fresh off the press so DOI below is not yet working, but you can find the article here: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

💡If you want to apply it to your data - please see the tutorial here github.com/flu-crew/Tre...

11.08.2025 13:34 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

The fitness consequences of coinfection and reassortment for segmented viruses depend upon viral genetic structure Cellular coinfection between multiple virions is a common feature of viral infections. The collective virus-virus interactions enabled by these coinfections can influence the fitness of viral populati...

Check out @mfarjo.bsky.social's new preprint where she uses a simulation-based approach to explore the evolutionary consequences of genetic mixing through co-infection for segmented viruses:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

hope you like it!

29.07.2025 20:46 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Border agents posted at Tucson maternity ward to quickly deport migrant mom The Guatemalan woman arrested in the Arizona desert will be given the choice taking her newborn — a US citizen born Wednesday at Tucson Medical Center — with her when

“Department of Homeland Security officers, who are posted outside the woman's Tucson Medical Center hospital room, are refusing to let the new mother speak to a lawyer, as she's requested” tucson.com/news/local/b...

02.05.2025 21:27 — 👍 630    🔁 353    💬 52    📌 45

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

22.04.2025 01:28 — 👍 23656    🔁 8412    💬 241    📌 121

Cells glowing either magenta or green, showing infection by two different viruses. The differently coloured regions meet at a sharp interface with little overlap. A scale bar marks 1 mm.

Why can't these viruses be friends?
In a new study from her PhD @cvrinfo.bsky.social, #AnnaSims shows that #SARS-CoV-2 infections segregate into distinct microdomains as they spread. But why? (1/N)
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

21.03.2025 13:47 — 👍 42    🔁 24    💬 2    📌 1

Seasonal influenza a virus lineages exhibit divergent abilities to antagonize interferon induction and signaling Author summary Successful replication and transmission of influenza A viruses (IAVs) requires effective subversion of the innate immune response. We developed a new single cell method to examine the i...

@joelrc.bsky.social 's paper on differences between the seasonal H1N1 and H3N2 lineages in their relative capacity to antagonize IFN induction and signaling at the single cell level is out now in PLOS Pathogens:

journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

12.12.2024 18:58 — 👍 30    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks Fadi!! :)

10.01.2024 23:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Excited to *finally* have @mfarjo.bsky.social 's fantastic paper on SARS-CoV-2 within-host evolutionary dynamics during acute infection published at JVI: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

05.01.2024 00:29 — 👍 37    🔁 21    💬 4    📌 3