Congratulations to the Burroughs Wellcome Fund GDEP awardees @bwfund.bsky.social, including Lazear Lab grad student Celeste Robles! @celeste-robles.bsky.social
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scientist, book reader, cancer survivor | studying the immune response to Zika virus at the maternal-fetal interface in the Lazear Lab π¦ views my own | the b in lgbtq π³οΈβπ
Congratulations to the Burroughs Wellcome Fund GDEP awardees @bwfund.bsky.social, including Lazear Lab grad student Celeste Robles! @celeste-robles.bsky.social
www.bwfund.org/news/bwf-exp...
Portrait of Jesse Lazear, photo of an Aedes aegypti mosquito, image of Jesse Lazearβs fever chart. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_William_Lazear CDC Public Health Image Library ID#9257 Fever chart for Jesse W. Lazear, September 19, 1900, Box-folder 3:47, Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection 1806-1995, Historical Collections, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia
Jesse Lazear died of yellow fever Sept. 25, 1900. Along with other research by the Yellow Fever Commission, his demonstration that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes provided the basis for efforts to control this devastating disease.
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I wish you guys could've seen my jaw hit the floor when I got the email! So honored to be a part of the 2025 Gilliam Fellow cohort!! π
07.08.2025 20:57 β π 19 π 5 π¬ 1 π 22025 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...
Group photo of UNC virologists attending the 2025 American Society for Virology conference in Montreal. They are standing in front of a brightly colored mural, wearing their conference name badges, with bright smiles because of all the virology.
UNC Virologists at #ASV2025
Thanks @amersocvirology.bsky.social for a great meeting!
@joelrc.bsky.social @abbieweight.bsky.social @nigelmgo.bsky.social @mdedloff.bsky.social @ascone.bsky.social @dapontediaz.bsky.social
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
@amersocvirology.bsky.social
15.07.2025 11:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Come see me chat about congenital ZIKV infection tomorrow! This project has been a labor of love and Iβm so excited to share the progress weβve made! π¦ #ASV2025
14.07.2025 17:57 β π 8 π 2 π¬ 2 π 0Group 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!
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My OpEd in @elife.bsky.social
βIt feels as if we are trying to fight a series of attacks on science with one arm tied behind our back and our lips half sewn shut.β
βYet we are not beaten, and some of us are downright energized.β
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
03.03.2025 21:09 β π 42690 π 8582 π¬ 326 π 198The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights. SIGBI followed by a next arrow
The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights. SIGBI followed by a next arrow
The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights. SIGBI followed by a next arrow
The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights. SIGBI
The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other
14.02.2025 03:29 β π 26835 π 9799 π¬ 16 π 18Live footage of the average NIH-funding academic as we cycle between maybe no longer having a job and court rulings allow NIH to resume evaluating and funding grants.
I do not recommend this life style, it sucks
Most of us just want to do important science unpeturbed.
π§ͺπ§¬π¬βΌοΈ !!happy international day of [redacted] and [redacted] in science!! βΌοΈπ¬π§¬π§ͺ
11.02.2025 18:48 β π 230 π 76 π¬ 4 π 1Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundationβs list of flagged words includes both βWomenβ and βFemale.β
11.02.2025 14:26 β π 2325 π 1027 π¬ 29 π 50Hey science friends?
I know that many of you are concerned about the perceived neutral and apolitical role of science in decisionmaking.
But scientists are being targeted. We didn't start it.
And advocating *for the role of scientific evidence in policymaking* is not unprofessional advocacy.
If youβre at the Positive Strand RNA Viruses Keystone Symposia, come visit my poster (number 1037) tonight! Iβm super excited to be presenting some new microscopy data thatβs been in the works for several years now ππ¬π¦
22.10.2024 14:57 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Dedloff 2024 Ann Rev Virol Fig 2: diagram summarizing the antiviral and immunomodulatory effects of IFN-L at the maternal-fetal interface
New from Margaret @mdedloff.bsky.social in Annual Review of Virology: Antiviral and Immunomodulatory Effects of Interferon Lambda at the Maternal-Fetal Interface
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
I absolutely love this work & feel so lucky to be doing it. Iβm so grateful I got to share it today! π¦ #ASV2024 #LoveVirology
25.06.2024 23:24 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Registration for the 2024 Southeastern Regional Virology Conference is live! Visit tarheels.live/servcΒ for more details - abstracts are due March 1!
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