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Sadness. Anger. Frustration. WTAF is happening. (Perhaps not a lab opinion but the PI’s thoughts for sure)

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!

Comparative analysis of deep mutational scanning datasets in enteroviruses A and B identifies functional divergence and therapeutic targets - Nature Ecology & Evolution A comparison of proteome-wide mutational scanning datasets from enterovirus A and B species reveals evolutionary constraints shared by these viral species that localize to core functional regions, as ...

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Excited to have this collaboration from #QVEU and @rongellerlab.bsky.social lab out in the world! After publishing our own #DeepMutationalScanning studies on two related viruses, we asked what we learn from comparisons of such datasets. The answer is a lot!

Let’s go! Congrats!!

We're hosting Waters in Utrecht for their University Tour. Come learn about their latest LC-MS, HDX-MS, and CD-MS solutions. Next week February 26th. With our very own Cynthia Kelley on our antiviral antibody epitope mapping work by HDX-MS. Register via the link:
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Congratulations to Sonomi Yamaguchi for her paper at @nature.com. Sonomi discovered Clover defense and explained how nucleotide signals control each step of viral sensing, immune regulation, and viral restriction – named for her beautiful "four-leaf" structures 🍀

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

YouTube video by American Society for Microbiology Preparing for Interviews in the Microbiology Field

Strategies to prepare for interviews in the microbiology field, including showcasing technical knowledge and discussing scientific accomplishments confidently. Understand how to align interview responses with the specific requirements and expectations of microbiology employers.

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Congrats to the 2026 Ann Palmenberg Junior Investigator Awardees Arinjay Banerjee (left) and Louise Moncla (right). Check out their accolades in your member email. Read more about Ann Palmenberg's impact on virology and ASV here:

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So they say athletic funds are different than grad student stipend funds but this is a case where that is not true. Can we share the love?

But did you have dumplings to welcome the horse?

Congrats to him and you!

New modelling suggests chikungunya transmission in Europe may be possible at lower temperatures than previously thought—expanding the seasonal and geographic risk as the Asian tiger mosquito spreads north with warming climate.
: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...

I am very humbled and honoured to receive the Ann Palmenberg Junior Investigator Award. I am grateful for the support of my mentors, trainees, colleagues, collaborators, nominator, family and friends. Thank you @amersocvirology.bsky.social. #LoveVirology

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I am excited to share our latest preprint - An evolutionarily divergent herpesvirus with a giant tail. Featuring symmetry breaking and genome annotation from structure using ModelAngelo. doi.org/10.64898/202...

Happy 134th birthday to humans knowing that viruses exist! OTD in 1892 Dmitri Ivanovsky presented his evidence of a tobacco mosaic disease caused by filterable agents (not bacteria!). Martinus Beijerinck confirmed this independently in 1898. And voila, virology is born!

“At the age of 23, before she'd even earned her PhD, Carol Greider made the discovery that would earn her the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Along with her supervisor and co-laureate Elizabeth Blackburn, she discovered the enzyme telomerase…”

Plant Viruses: The Unsung Heroes That Deliver Drugs and Destroy Tumors Nicole Steinmetz engineers plant virus nanoparticles into versatile drug-delivery platforms. This work expanded into cancer vaccines and immunotherapy.

A nice article about someone who has become a good friend - did a Master’s with someone I know in Germany, a PhD with another friend from UK, bounce around the same conferences, coathored 2 reviews - explaining her very cool work. www.the-scientist.com/plant-viruse...

Not all West Nile virus lineages behave alike: vector competence and minimum infectious dose differences between lineages 1 and 2 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.03.700853v1

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My department at Washington State University is recruiting an Assistant or Associate Professor in vector-borne disease 🕷️🦟🦠

Full job description is linked below.

Come join us on the Palouse!

I share this often because we easily forget
Reality is very different from Equality, Equity and Justice
Equality is different from Equity
Equity is different from Justice
We should aspire to justice for all
I like to describe myself as someone who stands for justice in all of its iterations
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🚨ABSTRACT DEADLINE FEBRUARY 2🚨
🚨TRAVEL AWARD DEADLINE FEBRUARY 9🚨

Share your virology research by submitting an abstract for ASV 2026 by 11:59pm Eastern on Monday 2/2/26

Need financial support? Trainees & teachers can apply for travel awards

www.asv.org/abstract-sub...
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Multiple protein structure alignment at scale with FoldMason Protein structure is conserved beyond sequence, making multiple structural alignment (MSTA) essential for analyzing distantly related proteins. Computational prediction methods have vastly extended ou...

FoldMason is out now in @science.org. It generates accurate multiple structure alignments for thousands of protein structures in seconds. Great work by Cameron L. M. Gilchrist and @milot.bsky.social.
📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🌐 search.foldseek.com/foldmason
💾 github.com/steineggerla...

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The ability of alphavirus replicases to synthesize non-viral type I interferon-inducing RNAs correlates with viral RNA synthesis and has a diverse impact on virus replication and pathogenicity | Journ... Alphaviruses are important mosquito-borne emerging pathogens. Their ability to interact with cellular defenses, including type I IFN, is crucial for infection. Here, we found that alphavirus replicase...

The ability of alphavirus replicases to synthesize non-viral type I interferon-inducing RNAs correlates with viral RNA synthesis and has a diverse impact on virus replication and pathogenicity journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Very cool. Hadn’t seen this before.

A prophage-encoded abortive infection protein preserves host and prophage spread - Nature A Gifsy-1 prophage–encoded higher eukaryotes and prokaryotes nucleotide-binding protein, HepS, senses Siphoviridae infection, activates abortive defence by cleaving host transfer RNAs, blocks rival ph...

A prophage-encoded abortive infection protein preserves host and prophage spread www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The names of 72 female scientists will be added to the Eiffel Tower, to accompany those of 72 male scientists that are already engraved there tinyurl.com/e2satnyp
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Pre-assembly of biomolecular condensate seeds drives RSV replication Nature - Viral ribonucleoprotein–viral protein networks form pre-replication centres that nucleate viral factories and drive respiratory syncytial virus replication.

Now out in Nature! We visualize infection of the RNA virus RSV in real-time with single-vRNP resolution to understand how RSV establishes viral factories, biomolecular condensates that act as sites of viral replication. A huge collaborative effort led by Dhanushika Ratnayake!

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Color photograph of Joan Steitz (Joan Argetsinger Steitz), the distinguished American molecular biologist and biochemist renowned for her groundbreaking discoveries in RNA biology, including the identification of small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs) essential to RNA splicing. She is pictured in a close-up portrait within a laboratory or research setting, smiling warmly and directly at the camera with an engaging, approachable expression that conveys enthusiasm and expertise. Steitz has gray hair pulled back, striking blue eyes, and is wearing large, elaborate dangling earrings adorned with purple gemstones and metallic accents. She is dressed in a rich purple blouse. The softly blurred background includes scientific elements such as lab benches, equipment, monitors, charts, and partial signage, evoking the environment of her long career at Yale University where she served as Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. #JoanSteitz #MolecularBiology #WomenInScience #Biochemistry #RNA

Biochemist/molecular biologist Joan Steitz was born #OTD in 1941.

She (& team) figured out how our cells read/use genetic instructions to make proteins. A key person who helped crack the code on RNA—the molecule that acts like a messenger between DNA & and the proteins our bodies need. #WomenInSTEM