Excited to present our recent minireview on all things of mice and viruses 🐁 🦠

~3,000 miles + so much food = summer roadtrip

Check out my minireview published as part of JVI’s New Voices in Virology collection on why translation shouldn’t stop at “bench to bedside.” Some of the most important insights on zoonotic spillover come from closing the loop between the laboratory and the field. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Latest read featuring Apple (also shoutout Crow Bookshop) Rating: 👻👻👻⚫️⚫️ 3.25/5 ghosts

2025 reading wrap-up and noticing I started and ended the year with cats 🐈

Looking forward to contributing to (and reading!) this collection in 2026 as part of the inaugural New Voices in Virology minireview collection! 🐀🦠 journals.asm.org/journal/jvi/...

When you've been in the cell culture hood all day and finally get to take off your gloves:

Elise is great (can vouch) and Burlington is great (can also vouch)👇

Looking if anyone has a CAT ELISA source as my go-to from Roche was discontinued. Currently doing some revisions and need this or a work-around to quantify CAT in a reporter assay. Any advice welcome! www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/produc...

Enjoying(?) the snowy weather since it has finally warmed up from feeling like it’s below zero

2024 reading wrap-up powered by #Storygraph Favorite literary reads this year are Small Things Like These, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, and Never Let Me Go

final (?) read of the year and got me over 10,000 pages 🥣

Proud and honored to be the inaugural Botten Lab Mario Kart tournament/holiday party champion 🏎️

Took nearly 2 months to finish this book, mainly because I set it down for two weeks in the middle of Imelda’s section 🐝 #iykyk

Tree is up and Maple has decided that she is the gift.

May have proved to myself that Boston is indeed a *very* walkable city with @rchrisskinner.bsky.social

Excited for my first bluesky post announcing TWO openings for tenure track positions in virology! I am chair of the search committee and with a new department head Mike Gale we are in an exciting building phase. Please share with anyone who might be interested: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/365...

Not so patiently waiting for the rain to subside

Trust in Scientists 🧪 Public confidence in scientists edged up slightly in 2024, according to a recent Pew Research Study, but still remains 10 percentage points below pre-pandemic levels. The confidence rise is split along party lines (88% vs. 66%), but notable that Republicans edged 5% higher YoY.

📢 Boosting Flu Vaccination Rates for Heart Health Did you know? A study in Denmark found that simple electronic reminders focusing on the heart-health benefits of flu vaccines helped more people—especially heart attack survivors—get vaccinated. https://buff.ly/40Qbv3b #HeartHealth #PublicHealth

Just finished my first classroom visit with @skypeascientist.bsky.social and wow! the questions these 3rd graders asked were impressive. Highly recommend signing up as a scientist (and donating!)

A good week to be a Catamount 💚💛

Couldn’t find a virology starter pack so here’s one to get the ball rolling. Repost/reply if you are a virologist so I can find and add you to the list! go.bsky.app/SinqoJU

Happy to be back at the old stomping grounds for WV Wesleyan homecoming festivities (and the highlight of Maple getting blessed by the Dean of the Chapel)

Eeeep! y'all! My book is temporarily on Kindle Unlimited! GO GO GO THE RATS NEED YOU www.amazon.com/Pests-Humans...

UVM is searching for its first Assistant Dean and Manager of Postdoctoral Affairs Deatils: jobs.chronicle.com/job/37680735...

A little late on sharing this, but some final studies from graduate school finally over the publication hurdle #TeamFerret www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Glad to see this finally out as it was truly a labor of love in many ways…one of them being first publication with @rchrisskinner.bsky.social ❤️ rdcu.be/dE6i0

Some memories from a very hectic October 🧬

Snuck away from NYIC a bit this afternoon to visit the Baseball HOF

Looking for something to do today in Burlington, VT? Stop by Science on Tap at Burlington Beer Company tonight at 6:00pm! btvscienceontap.wixsite.com/science/even...

Excited for my first trip to the Upstate New York Immunology Conference in a rainy but still beautiful Cooperstown. Stick around for the last talk on Thursday to hear about the work in the Botten Lab @ UVM 🐱💚

Opportunity for students interested in physiology and nutrition! (I can vouch for the guy 😅)

Cheers to Yoshi and Jim Paulson for *stubbornly* working out a genetic background in MDCKs to best grow seasonal human H3N2s (and avoid egg adaptation). Extending N-glycan LacNAc branch length in SIAT1 cells is the winner. Influenza ViroSky ☣️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

2,000 miles in 5 days may be too many, but the pit stops were nice

Parents in Vermont version 3.0 = lots of sightseeing, home improvement projects and complaining that restaurants are too dark

One of the worst things we could imagine as far as vaccine hesitancy in the pre-pandemic era was that it would get politicized. Once it becomes part of a political identity, it's so much harder to change minds--and that's exactly what happened, first with COVID vax and now moving to others.

First post here at the ~other place~ and latest pre-print from some PhD-era work! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...