it’s that time of year again… the virus snowflakes are back! 😊

🟢Great energy at the APPEAL General Assembly 5-6 Nov 25 in Barcelona! Thank you, @leitat.bsky.social, for hosting us at the Parc Científic de Barcelona — two days of collaboration, innovation, and inspiration! #HorizonEU #Innovation #Virology #Antivirals

Last week, our Horizon Europe consortium #APPEAL met in Barcelona for its annual meeting, beautifully organized by @leitat.bsky.social. Inspiring and productive discussions as we strengthen our efforts toward pandemic preparedness!

After years in the making, Joe McKellar @viroscope.bsky.social’s final PhD paper is finally out today in PNAS! 🎉 🎉🎉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Finally taking the time to post about the fantastic conference #NSV2025, which was held at the #Corum, here in #Montpellier, South of France, and co-organized by Paul Duprex, Wendy Barclay, Sean Whelan and @oliviermoncorge.bsky.social! My whole team was there and we had a fantastic time!

New job offer in the team! If you're an experienced virologist (with a PhD), join us to work on Horizon Europe-funded APPEAL project in the vibrant city of Montpellier, South of France! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/359640

Un nourrisson atteint d’une maladie génétique ultra-rare reçoit un traitement personnalisé inédit A lire sur 'Réalités Biomédicales' www.lemonde.fr/realites-bio...

A new article estimates that even a 10% DECLINE in MMR vax coverage in the US could lead to 11 MILLION US measles cases over 25 years. IF instead MMR coverage INCREASES by 5%, cases would falled to <10K. Given infectiousness of Measlies, it's VITAL to ⬆️ MMR vax rates. Measles info below 1/2

Abstract submission and registration deadline for #NSV2025 coming super soon, don't miss it: it will be a fantastic meeting in our lovely city of Montpellier! Please repost ☺️

Seems very unecessary. Get vaccinated www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Just submitted my abstract for #NSV2025, which will take place in Montpellier in June - What about you?

#NSV2025 Two weeks left to register! The abstract submission/registration system on the website will CLOSE Friday, April 11, 2025. Visit www.negativestrandvirus.org/home

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Claire Lacouture, jeune chercheuse à @irim-life.bsky.social (équipe dirigée par D Muriaux et C Favard) s'engage pour la recherche sur le VIH avec @sidaction.bsky.social et participe à la campagne de collecte de dons : www.tf1.fr/tf1/sidactio... www.france.tv/france-2/sid...

"This week, Elon Musk said 'The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.' Elon's words reminded me of this: Anthropologist Margaret Meade noted that the first sign of civilization was a healed human femur...."

Le HCERES est-il lui-même évalué ? Question quasi shadokienne mais qui pourrait conduire à l’économie des 30 millions d’argent public annuel que coûte ce parasite institutionnel.

I also have a few examples of my own… as a #FirstGen student, I started with a technical training. during my first intership, a postdoc asked me what I wanted to do afterwards and when I said pursuing my studies and do a PhD, the reply was ‘oh, but you’d need to be clever for that… didn’t you know?´

Don't forget to register and submit your abstract for #NSV2025 in Montpellier! The abstract submission/registration system on the website will CLOSE Friday, April 11, 2025. Visit www.negativestrandvirus.org/home

Negative-Strand RNA Virus meeting #NSV2025 registration is now open! Visit www.negativestrandvirus.org/home

#WomenInScience celebration @irim-life.bsky.social, Day 6: meet Elodie Bishop, PhD student in @caro_goujon's team

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.

#WomenInScience @irim-life.bsky.social ! Meet my favorite autophagy expert!! 👇

An interesting meeting for those studying negative strand RNA viruses!

#WomenInScience celebrations @IRIM_life ! Meet our amazing Mary who, despite a full time teaching position @umontpellier.bsky.social (she's 'PRAG'), does some cool research work with us!!!

#WomenInScience celebration @irim-life.bsky.social, Day 2: Magali Abrantes, a technichian in Bruno Beaumelle's lab

#WomenInScience celebration @irim-life.bsky.social, Day 2: meet Diana Brychka who did her PhD in Raphaël Gaudin's team

Day 1: Yara Tasrini, postdoc

Day 1: Marie Villares, postdoc

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! We will celebrate all the amazing female scientists from @irim-life.bsky.social over the next few weeks by posting here their portraits. Ladies, you rock!! #WomenInScienceDay #WomenInScience

Yesterday marked the First Infection & Immunity Axis Annual Meeting - what a fantastic day ! 🎉 A huge thank you to all the speakers & attendees who made it a success. You can find the full program below. We’re already looking forward to next year 👀✨ biolum-immunity.sciencesconf.org/program?lang...

Working on Negative Strand RNA viruses? Here is the THE meeting you don't want to miss in 2025: #NSV2025! It will take place in vibrant Montpellier, South of France, and is organized by Wendy Barclay, Paul Duprex, Sean Whelan and Olivier Moncorgé Please share widely! #ViroSky #LoveVirology

Reminder that @europepmc.org is a mirror of Pubmed with better search and that it indexes *all* bioRxiv preprints (as well as ResearchSquare), not just the ones funded by NIH like chauvinist Pubmed

Le programme de la 25ème réunion de l'AC42 de l'@anrs-mie.bsky.social et du Réseau National Hépatites est en ligne. Il est encore temps de vous inscrire et de candidater au prix de thèse. anrs.fr/fr/actualite...

One of the perks of often coming to Paris for work and sometimes having free evenings: (re)discovering its beauty! tonight #NotreDame 🤩

Operation Dark Ages is going well so far. ✔️Putting the livelihoods & careers of 1000s of researchers in jeopardy ✔️Not publishing the MMWR, which has been going strong for 6 decades ✔️Withholding key reports about H5N1, which is a rapidly increasing pandemic risk www.nature.com/articles/d41...

📣 Announcement: a postdoc position available in our Unit ! See below 👇 Please repost

Taking a break from evaluations to analyse some confocal images I took this week on IFs I did with bronchial ciliated cells from @arebendenne.bsky.social 🤩 #FluorescenceFriday

Some months ago, I received the great news that my #NIH RO1 grant received a likely fundable score. With the NIH not being able to hold meetings and take decision, I found out that the council meeting is canceled (it was planned next week). 🧵/1

Habitant·es de la région lyonnaise, ce soir, je suis à la médiathèque "Le 20" de Champagne-au-Mont-D'Or pour une visite de l'Univers avec le télescope spatial James Webb Belles images garanties, entorses de la rétine à prévoir 😉 C'est à 20h & c'est gratuit. www.mairiedechampagne.fr/evenement/lu...

Throwback to an image of a lung cell expressing the antiviral Mx1 protein that won an image of distinction in the Nikon Small World competition in 2022. Nuclei are in orange, microtubules in cyan and Mx1 in green. Taken during my PhD in @carogoujon.bsky.social lab! #FluorescenceFriday #sciart

On a des vaccins. On a des masques. On a des tests. Mais on est tellement nuls et amnésiques qu’on se prend un vague de mortalité grippe de plein fouet.

The team Secret Santa 2024! Not so many decoys this year but quality ones 😂

Il y a beaucoup d'agitation au sujet des annonces d'Antoine Petit, PDG du #CNRS, avec des liens vers des articles sous paywall. Ce qui a été déclaré: actuellement, 46% des effectifs du CNRS sont dans 25% des laboratoires, et le CNRS trouve cela trop "dispersé".

HIV-1 has, for decades, been called, well, HIV-1. But no, according to the ICTV, that will no longer do, so the new name for this virus is "Lentivirus humimdef1". Yup, you read that right. Somebody needs to take away whatever drugs the committee is on. All viruses renamed - it's insane.

Latest preprint from @morielab.bsky.social #CRBM and our team @irim-life.bsky.social! Fantastic collaboration, started over a Zoom on an evening of the lockdown in April 2020 with María exposing us her ideas... >4,5 years later, here are the results! biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/5

Working on Negative Strand RNA viruses? Here is the THE meeting you don't want to miss in 2025: #NSV2025! It will take place in vibrant Montpellier, South of France, and is organized by Wendy Barclay, Paul Duprex, Sean Whelan and Olivier Moncorgé Please share widely! #ViroSky #LoveVirology

Massive congrats to emmapartiot.bsky.social from Raphaël Gaudin's lab @irim-life.bsky.social for her well-deserved Prize in 'Major advances in Biology' from Foundation Mergier Bourdeix, @academiesciences.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social #CNRSBiologie (From X: x.com/AcadSciences...)

Woh, discovering the absolutely stunning paper just published by @di-nunzio-lab.bsky.social and collaborators including @mammano.bsky.social. Fantastic read for my train journey back to Montpellier tonight! 🤩🤩 www.embopress.org/doi/epdf/10.... Congrats to all authors!

Thrilled to have been trained on our brand new Miltenyi Tyto cell sorter and cell cytometer MACSQuant16, both placed in our BSL3 @irim-life.bsky.social. Great training by Esther Dalko and Cyril Longé from #Miltenyi! Really looking forward to use these equipments for our ERC-funded project InVIRium!