Brand-new PhD candidate Abbie Weight is standing in lab wearing a yellow sweater and a big well-deserved smile. She is holding an inflatable T-Rex with signs saying "Congratulations Candidate!!!" and "Yay Abbie!". She also is holding a stuffed alpaca wearing a tiny party hat.
Congratulations to Abbie Weight @abbieweight.bsky.social who did a great job on her qualifying exam and is officially a PhD candidate! Abbie is using genetically diverse mice to understand the host factors that control susceptibility to La Crosse virus and other neuroinvasive arboviruses.
02.10.2025 20:43 — 👍 21 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
2025 Gilliam Fellows program announcement highlighting graduate student Celeste Robles from UNC Chapel Hill (advisor Helen Lazear)
So proud of Celeste Robles @celeste-robles.bsky.social for being selected as a 2025 Gilliam Fellow! Thrilled to be joining the Gilliam community @hhmi.org
www.hhmi.org/programs/gil...
08.08.2025 17:56 — 👍 20 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
Group photo of the Lazear Lab at ASV 2025 in Montreal. We are wearing our name badges and everyone is smiling because our presentations are done and went great!
Composite photo of Lazear Lab members during their presentations. Margaret, Mikhala, Abbie, and Cormac are giving oral presentations; Mikhala, Nigel, and Celeste are standing in front of photos. An ASV 2025 meeting logo is at the top.
The Lazear Lab at #ASV2025 - great to see all these folks present their cool work on so many different viruses! @amersocvirology.bsky.social
@mdedloff.bsky.social @abbieweight.bsky.social @nigelmgo.bsky.social @joelrc.bsky.social
21.07.2025 01:59 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Group photo of the Lazear Lab outside
So many accomplishments to celebrate as we close out this academic year! I'm so lucky to get to work with these awesome folks in the Lazear Lab!
@mdedloff.bsky.social @nigelmgo.bsky.social @abbieweight.bsky.social @viralvibes365.bsky.social @monicareece.bsky.social
06.05.2025 19:15 — 👍 20 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
UNC M&I Program Welcome Event and White Coat Ceremony
We welcomed a new class to the UNC Microbiology & Immunology PhD program, with Abbie Weight @abbieweight.bsky.social and Celeste Robles joining the Lazear Lab. They received gifts from the 3rd year class, donned their new lab coats, and recited their graduate student oath. We're glad you're here!
29.05.2024 20:40 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Lazear lab group photo
Students in white coats on a stage reading their graduate student oath
Last week I presented my rotation research from the
@lazearlab.bsky.social
and received my white (lab) coat, making me an official member of UNC M&I! Looking forward to learning lots about bunyaviruses while investigating neuroinvasive arbovirus pathogenesis over the next few years
20.05.2024 19:37 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
PhD student in the Lazear Lab @ UNC // Interested in host genetic factors that influence neuroinvasive flavivirus pathogenesis
Bacterial-fungal endosymbiosis | I do omics and mol bio in The Carter Lab, UNC Charlotte
Duke University alumn. Virology research specialist in the Sheahan Lab at CVRG (y'know, at that other blue school). Pop punk millennial. she/they. ✡️•🏳️🌈•🖖
Jan Probst
~ 40 years health services research, mostly into rural issues
Guardian of Sam the rural health advoCATe.
Bibliography:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1HMPkKfOyD5kE/bibliography/public/
3rd year PhD student in the Lazear Lab at UNC
The Canadian Society for Virology (CSV), founded in 2015, supports the Canadian virus research community #VirologyFTW
UNC Microbiome Core Facility at UNC Chapel Hill🦠 We study prebiotics, probiotics, and synbiotics with human health | NGS 🧬
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Associate Professor | UNC Chapel Hill, Pharmacology Department | Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center | Research in Endocrinology, Epigenetics, & Wnt signaling| Views my own. https://www.med.unc.edu/pharm/pruittlab/team/
President, American Society for Virology; Professor, The Ohio State University
Virology | Flow Cytometry | Data Analysis
Postdoctoral research associate at UNC Chapel Hill studying the role of IFN lambda in the adaptive immune response to HSV
Proud Western Carolina University and Emory University Alumnus
NIH PREP Scholar at UNC-CH School of Medicine | Researching Viral Tropism & Pathogenesis
Mobilizing the fight for science and democracy, because Science is for everyone 🧪🌎
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Postdoc in the Jolly lab @UCL studying T cell reprogramming by HIV-1 🇬🇧 | PhD on bat antiviral IFITMs @Edinburgh🦇 | virus-host interactions 🦠 | 🏠 Hong Kong
Twitter @NellyMak_sc (for Sky Follower Bridge)
Bunyavirologist working hard to understand vertical transmission in humans and livestock. Lover of whiskey, dogs, and spending time outdoors. Research Assistant Professor at the Univesity of Pittsburgh, School of Public Health, Center for Vaccine Research
Richard Sloan Lab. Viruses and Innate Immunity. Edinburgh University and ZJE Institute, China.
https://www.ed.ac.uk/infection-medicine/our-staff/principal-investigators/dr-richard-sloan
Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Pathology
Hematopathology. Flow Cytometry. Faculty Development. Advocate for students.
#MedSky #PathSky #HemePath
"Why stand on a silent platform?"
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Virology+Immunology. 2nd-year M&I doctoral student @UNC-Chapel Hill.
Stationary junkie.
Junior Group Leader in Münster, Germany.
Morphogenesis, collective cell migration, cytoskeleton, cell-adhesion and self-organization/emergent behavior in #Drosophila.
Animal photos: 📷 instagram.com/maikscritters 🐸🐍
Cell adhesion, cytoskeletal regulation, Wnt signaling & wherever science leads us + wildflowers & my own idiosyncratic views. First gen college grad
Diversity, equity & Inclusion are core American Values
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