Tonic interferons defend against respiratory viruses in primary human lung organoid-derived air-liquid interface cultures https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.10.693424v1

Nef stabilizes actin to prevent HIV-1 sensing by RIG-I-like receptors @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Helmholtz-Geschäftsführerin Sabine Helling-Moegen im Interview mit Deutschlandfunk Nova zur Attraktivität des Wissenschaftsstandorts Deutschland www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/brai...

Multiple large natural experiments have documented Shingles vaccine is linked with ~20-25% reduced risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. A new report today adds to that and extends the to slowing the progression of dementia @cellcellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

🔬 Upcoming Expert Insights Seminar by ACHIEVE Also join us on December 4th, 2025, at 2:00 PM (CET) for an inspiring talk on Publishing at PLOS Biology by Melissa Vázquez Hernández. Register here to join via Zoom: achieve.g-f-v.org/seminar-seri...

Highly recommended for late PhDs and Postdocs👇 #LoveVirology

The 2026 edition of the ACHIEVE mentoring program open to final year PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and veterinary/medical doctors has just launched. You will benefit from 1-year individual mentoring by established PIs, 1/2

ViroCareer Compass – Navigating Your Career in Virology Shape your career at the 6th #ACHIEVE Workshop of the #GfV! Explore academia, industry & diagnostics, strengthen your CV, get hands-on tips for your first grant 📅 16–17 Mar 2026 | Heidelberg | Late PhD, postdocs & MDs 📝 Apply: achieve.g-f-v.org

🔬 Upcoming Expert Insights Seminar by ACHIEVE Join us on November 4th, 2025, at 2:00 PM (CET) for an inspiring talk on “BSL-4” by PD Dr. Thomas Hoenen. Register here to join via Zoom: achieve.g-f-v.org/seminar-seri...

Let me be very clear. It is not enough that RFK Jr. was forced to admit today that no causal relationship between Tylenol and autism has been shown. We know that while disinformation spreads like wildfire on social media, corrections most often die on the vine.

🚨 The #HIRI invites applications for 2 JUNIOR GROUP LEADER POSITIONS in the areas of: 🔵 RNA Biology 🔵 RNA Medicine 🔵 RNA Technology Apply by October 31 at www.helmholtz-hiri.de/en/jobs-tale... Find an overview in this thread. 🧵👇 (1/6)

Respiratory viruses activate autophagy via the IFN-STAT1/STAT5B-SOCS1 axis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.28.685013v1

🔬 Upcoming Expert Insights Seminar by ACHIEVE Join us on October 7th, 2025, at 2:00 PM (CET) for an inspiring talk on “AlphaFold & HerpesFolds” by Dr. Timothy Soh. Register here to join via Zoom: achieve.g-f-v.org/seminar-seri...

🦠 Abstract submission for the 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for Virology is open! Share your research with the virology community and help shape the scientific dialogue next year in Heidelberg. 🕐 Deadline: Jan 4, 2026 🔗 virology-meeting.de/programme-ab... #GfV2026 #virology #virologymeeting

Excited to be co-organizing this @embo.org Workshop on #Pathogen #Immunity and #Signalling next June 8-12 2026 in Leiden! 🥳🥳🥳 #Savethedate

Nach einem Zoster (Gürtelrose) besteht ein erhöhtes Risiko für Demenz. Die Impfung gegen Zoster verringert das Demenzrisiko signifikant. Die Shingrix-Impfung ist für alle ab 60 Jahre und ab 50 Jahre mit Begleiterkrankungen empfohlen.

🎉 Exciting news: my PhD project @daothilab.bsky.social has been published in #PLoS Pathogens! I investigated how the #hepatitis E virus ORF2 protein counteracts antiviral responses, contributing to persistent viral replication. A huge thank you to all collaborators! 🙏🏻 🔗 share.google/WwIT43Su3KOP...

Historically, viruses were thought to primarily use host cell's translational machinery. New work from @harvardcellbio.bsky.social faculty Amy Lee reveals that a giant DNA virus encodes its own IF4F initiation complex, suggesting an unexpected evolutionary innovation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Full room at the start of the 2nd Immunobiology symposium on pattern recognition receptors! Looking forward to the great programme that we lined up for you together with @brozlab.bsky.social @martinon.bsky.social #ImmunoSky

Feeling deeply honored to receive this year's Aventis Life Science Bridge Award. Grateful to the Aventis Foundation for their support, and to my colleagues, mentors, collaborators, and my amazing research team who make this work possible. Excited to keep pushing our HIV research forward together.

🔬✨ Introducing: Expert Insights – the new seminar series by the Young Society for Virology! We’ve combined the strengths of our previous “How to” seminar series and the GfV ROUND lunch discussions into one powerful format – Expert Insights. 1/n

Structural basis for OAS2 regulation and its antiviral function

Proud to present a cover inspired by the structural and functional analysis of OAS2 by @oliveiramann.bsky.social, @indrabekere.bsky.social, and Veronika Merold, live at @cp-molcell.bsky.social. Big news on RNA sensing and antiviral defenses! #sciart ⌬ #research ⌬ #chemistry ⌬ #immunology

Mit fünf weiteren Fachgesellschaften macht sich die GfV stark dafür, die Wissenschaftsfreiheit zu verteidigen und zu festigen. Leider geschieht dies nicht im luftleeren Raum, sondern in Zeiten, in denen diese essentielle Freiheit zusehends auch bei uns unter Druck gerät. g-f-v.org/gemeinsame-s...

How can swarm intelligence improve stroke treatment? A research project links central registry data with local brain imaging – powered by artificial intelligence. Funded by @www.helmholtz.de and under paricipation of @cispa.de. 👉 www.dzne.de/en/news/pres...

Thrilled to share our latest @cp-cell.bsky.social. We present VICAR (VIral-induced Centromeric DNA Amplification and Recognition), a new defense system to detect viruses in the nucleus based on nuclear cGAS. www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

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Our manuscript on dsRNA sensor OAS2 from the lab of @oliveiramann.bsky.social is now out in @cp-molcell.bsky.social ! Thanks again to the whole team for their effort putting this story together!

Here is one big reason to choose Europe to advance with your research career: We 💙 science.

Was haben Stechmücken mit gefährlichen Viren zu tun? Die Antwort darauf gibt es von Dr. Pietro Scaturro (LIV) bei #bookascientist – dem Format für persönliche Gespräche mit Expert*innen @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de. Jetzt einen Termin sichern! www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/ueber-uns/ne...

📢 Only one week to go! We are very thrilled about our upcoming first CiViA #symposium 'Defense against #viral infections 🦠 ', which will take place on 21 & 22 May 2025 at Hotel Vejlefjord, #Denmark 🇩🇰. Stay tuned for further updates! Supported by @dg.dk & @carlsbergfondet.dk

Continuing our #CiViASymposium session 2 with Konstantin Sparrer @sparrerlab.bsky.social on innate immune control mechanisms.

📢 We are #hiring a #PhD student to work on an interdisciplinary, collaborative project @dzne.science in Bonn, Germany! 🧠 If you’re interested in western diet-induced #neuroinflammation and innate immune signalling in #alzheimersdisease, check out our ad below 👇 jobs.dzne.de/en/jobs/1014...

We are pleased to invite you to our next "How to..." seminar on measuring protein-protein interactions using Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) by Prof. Abel Viejo-Borbolla, Hannover Medical School. 1/2

We are super excited to share our work on #InnateImmune sensing of #AAV 🦠🧬 in the 🧠, just out in @natcomms.nature.com ! 🤩 Huge congratulations to all the team and collaborators 💪🏻 And our funders 💰 @erc.europa.eu #FondazioneTelethon and #FNIH 🙏🏻 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

Nature research paper: A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia https://go.nature.com/3XHRhq5

The shingles vaccine reduced the probability of new #dementia diagnoses by around one-fifth over seven years, according to a large-scale study of a population in Wales, UK, reported in Nature. https://go.nature.com/4460AE4#dementia🧪

The vaccine against Shingles helps protect against dementia, results of a natural experiment, adding to prior evidence "implications are profound" New @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... nature.com/articles/s41...

Konstantin Sparrer @sparrerlab.bsky.social @dzne.science , Maximilian Hirschenberger @uniulm.bsky.social and co-workers show that distinct pathogenic mutations in ARF1 allow dissection of its dual role in #cGAS-STING #signalling. www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

A #SciencePerspective by @zalaly.bsky.social and @erictopol.bsky.social identifies key issues that need to be prioritized in the study of #LongCovid. Learn more on #LongCovidAwarenessDay: scim.ag/3XKbds3

Happy to finally see this study published, a great collaboration between academic, government and industry labs! We show that CCHFV GP38 can induce vascular leak and that this can be prevented by protective but not virus-neutralizing antibodies! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

And that was that – the 34th annual virology meeting ended today, with awards and an outlook on the meeting next year in Heidelberg. We at the GfV are very grateful to the local organizing team from @leibnizliv.bsky.social, the many many helpers as well as catering and Conventus!

Just now, keynote speaker Joe Grove from Glasgow, presented how machine learning helped resolve the structures of flaviviral E1 proteins and identify fusion mechanisms. This strategy can be used to identify structural similarities between fusion proteins in the virosphere.

In the last Session of our Annual Meeting Alexandra Herrmann presents novel vidofludimus-based DHODH inhibitors containing carboxylic acid bioisosters with superior broad-spectrum antiviral activity. (CR)

The last day of #GfV2025 started with a keynote by Adolfo Garcia-Sastre from New York on TRIM-mediated regulation of interferon responses during RNA virus infection. (HMB)

Keynote speaker Troels Scheel @scheellab.bsky.social from Copenhagen presented how non-canonical capping protects viral RNA from innate immune detection.