Pro tip for PSU students looking for a spring general-education class: Viruses in our World (SC 130) starts anew in January! Check out Katie Herron's Daily Collegian article about the new class: www.psucollegian.com/culture_life...

Thanks for a fabulous visit & inspiring science and ideas, Harmit! 🍃🧫 🧬

Welcome to Black In Micro Week! 🎉 Don't miss today's free events - simply click the linktr.ee/BlackInMicro to 1) Register and 2) Login. Everyone is welcome to join! Show your support by donating at tinyurl.com/GiveBiM (all links in bio). #BlackInMicro #BiM2025

Excellent first day at @pennstateuniv.bsky.social for the Marker lectures hanging out with science celebrities @nicoleacrowley.bsky.social @drohsopretty.bsky.social @symbionticism.bsky.social plus several more folks I was too shy to ask for selfies

This year's Trainee Satellite Symposium at #ASV2025 is a trainee-only session "Exploring the Intersection of Culture, Communication, And Mentorship in Science". It will feature speakers Beronda Montgomery, Robert Fernandez, and Olivia Goldman. Find out more here: asv.org/2025/06/19/t...

NEW: Entire scientific fields have been wiped out by the nearly 800 grants cancelled at NIH, finds a @nature.com analysis of the unprecedented cuts. About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone. See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:

Vaccines work! As measles cases have recently been reported in Alaska, Georgia, New York, Rhode Island and Texas, it's important to remember that prior to the introduction of the measles vaccine in 1963, measles killed 400-500 people and resulted in ~48,000 hospitalizations per year.

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Shoutout to all of the exceptional Black scientists who have contributed to and are currently contributing to virology research! Your work is vitally important to understanding basic virology controlling viral diseases worldwide! #BlackHistoryMonth

One last reminder -- tomorrow is the last day to submit an abstract for ASV's annual meeting! We have a new, shorter schedule of just 4 awesome days -- July 14-17, 2025, in Montréal 🇨🇦. The ASV Program Committee is eagerly awaiting your excellent abstracts! ✍️

Heads up, virologists! ASV's annual meeting is going to Montréal 🇨🇦 in July 2025, and abstract submission closes in <3 weeks -- Monday Feb. 3rd!!! 🔬 🧬 The ASV Program Committee is eagerly awaiting your excellent abstracts! ✍️

Our Big Fantastic Virus Database (BFVD) is now published NAR! It contains protein structure predictions of major viral clades, enhanced by petabase-scale homology search and it's explorable on the web. 🌐 bfvd.foldseek.com 💾 bfvd.steineggerlab.workers.dev 📄 academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

I love that someone left this on my office door board! 😊 🔬🦠 ❤️‍🩹#LoveVirology

Calling all #virology friends who are on the faculty job market: Penn State's Biology department & our Biochemistry & Molecular Biology department have multiple faculty openings! Link #1 of 3 here -- this one's theme is Evolutionary Genomics (open topic): psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Abstract submission for the biggest US-based meeting in virology #ASV2024 closes in under 3 weeks! ASV's Program Committtee is ready & excited to receive your abstracts, due by February 1! asv.org/asv2024/ @amersocvirology.bsky.social

Ancient chicken remains reveal the origins of virulence in Marek’s disease virus Marek´s disease virus is a herpes virus, the virulence of which has greatly increased www.science.org/doi/... 1/3

Very sad to learn about the passing of Dr. Lindenbach - the world has lost an eminent and deeply caring scientist. www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...

New paper alert After more than 15 years in the field this is my first paper in @JVirology My student Alina Shitrit had led this project as part of Ph.D, with our collaborators @szparalab.bsky.social @nirdrayman.bsky.social @weitzmanlab.bsky.social and more journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

In-person visits to share science are the best, especially after years of being zoom-limited for pandemic safety. Thank you to Bill @wtjackson.bsky.social & the faculty & trainees at U. Maryland Baltimore for an awesome visit & great post-seminar questions!

Mark your calendars, virologists! ASV2024 will be held at The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH from June 24-28.

In honor of all the new peeps rebuilding science-social over here (thank goodness!), here's a super-cool new preprint from my old labmate Matt Taylor's group -- on single-cell analyses of HSV1, in neurons cultured in little droplets. Check it out! Matt's not yet on bluesky, but we'll get him here!

Keen to hear about the new place for science online, from fellow virologists at @amersocvirology.bsky.social! Our pup is listening to the good news too...