We found a viral Trojan Horse: a virus can hide inside another virus.This one surprised us: deltaviruses don’t just borrow a helper virus. They can travel inside it. A literal Trojan Horse “virus-in-a-virus” route into cells. 🤯 Kudos to 1st author @viroscope.bsky.social and co-authors !

With Eugene Koonin, we propose a concept of “the selfish ribosome”, under which evolution of life is viewed as a ribosomal takeover, where the ribosome evolved to consume most of the cell’s resources, while other cellular componentry ensures the propagation of the ribosome. arxiv.org/abs/2602.23268

Pleased to be invited to speak at the first ever Hormel Institute Virology Nexus Symposium in Austin, Minnesota ...home of the SPAM museum! hi.umn.edu/virology-nex...

Join us at the 12th European Seminar in Virology in Bertinoro! 🧬 “Navigating through DNA viruses – novel disease associations and common host manipulations” 📅Abstracts due Apr 15, 2026 to [email protected] ⚠️Only 100 seats—register now via the European Society for Virology!

Alternative splicing in viruses adds another regulatory layer that hugely increases the complexity of virus-host interaction. Congrats @delphinem-p.bsky.social @geminiteamlab.bsky.social and all involved!

Honored to be elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology! I look forward to working alongside my colleagues to advance microbial science for the benefit of society. Learn more about the 2026 Fellowship Class: press release link

BEWARE Last day for early bird Join us to have science fun !!!!!!! 👇🏽 isdv2026.com Beautiful Science Program 👍 If you miss it....you regret it ! 15-19 June, 2026 | Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil

Zoe Denis a PhD student in our lab , describing the first marsupial deltavirus ! :)

Deadline approaching Do Not Forget to join us !!! Beautiful Science program 👍🏻 👇🏼 isdv2026.com

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Bravo @mkrupovic.bsky.social and team !

Great crowd and attendance for our France-Japan Virology workshop we kicked off this morning !

It is now on air. Please look it up and join us! Great science and wonderful venue👍🏻 www.isdv2026.com

Finally! Translon: A term for the sequence that actually gets translated. ORF or CDS just won't do when you work with viruses that break the rules by frameshifting, readthrough, non-AUG starts, etc. Thank you Pavel Baranov et al! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One can at last now get notification from selected BlueSky accounts !!! That is cool !

To all friends and colleagues virologists SAVE THE DATE for the next International Symposium on Single Stranded DNA viruses Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil June 15-19 2026 Stay put for more info soon when website goes on air !

⚡️ Permanent Researcher position opening in Stephane Blanc group at PHIM, INRAE, Montpellier France  “Traffic of viral macromolecules within host plants and role in the biology of multi-component viral systems  🦠 More info 👉 jobs.inrae.fr/concours/con... ❗️Deadline March 4th 2025

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ssDNA viruses lovers !!!!! Don’t miss the next IS3DV international meeting 8th-13th June 2025 Varadero- Cuba www.cigb.edu.cu/en/event/is3...