So awesome to have this great paper from Sam Reffsin and Sara Cherry out! In it, we use retrospective clone tracing to show that there are particular single cell states that are more susceptible to viral infection (both SARS-CoV-2 and flu)! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Very glad to share my first last-author paper, now published in iScience! 🎉In this study, we addressed a key challenge in virus-based cancer therapy: macrophage-mediated suppression, which limits viral infection and restricts T cell activation in tumors. Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This was a meaningful moment of introspection, looking back on 10 years of scientific mobility since I left India. Also fun to share my experience working across labs in France, Netherlands, and Brazil. Read here for the full story: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

When you grow yeast on yeast extract medium

Presenting our poster on programming oncolytic alphavirus replicons with immunogenic signals at the Dutch Annual Virology symposium #DAVS2025 in #sunny Utrecht 🌞

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The embryologist Ernst Haeckel is famous for his maxim that “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny” and for sketchy imaging. While Haeckel figures prominently in #DevBiol, the Fifth Dalai Lama doesn’t. Perhaps he should, though. He scooped Haeckel by about 200 years. #LongBibliography 🧵 1/14

Programming alphavirus with IFN-γ overrides the adverse effects of macrophages on oncolytic virotherapy https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.12.637841v1

Another great preprint out together with @darshakbhatt.com using OVRI! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📣🎓Fun time talking to #C2PO about my PhD experience between @uspoficial.bsky.social & @umcgroningen.bsky.social. It was great reflecting on how working in different places shapes one's approach to research, collaboration, & problem-solving. Check the full interview here: c2po.usp.br/c2po-intervi...

1/3 Happy to share one of the final chapters of my PhD on oncolytic virotherapy! This study explores how oncolytic virotherapy can impact the content and function of extracellular vesicles (EVs) from melanoma cells. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Researchers are rewarded if their papers are highly cited or published in prestigious journals (...) Conversely, developing and maintaining software, even if it supports a wide body of research or meets the needs of broad scientific communities, rarely results in similar opportunities."

1/23 Big news for the #ObenaufLab! So excited to finally share our new study providing another puzzle piece, why immunotherapy fails in many tumors, now out in @Nature 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A dust bunny 👇 from Studio Ghibli

🥳Happy to share our article on oncolytic virotherapy and T-cell responses influencing outcomes. Key insights: timing of therapy, anticancer T-cell activity, and the diffusion of immune signals all play complex roles, sometimes reducing effectiveness. #Spatialmodel #oncolyticvirus #Stochasticity 💻🎉

🚨 Paper Alert! "Six Personas to Adopt When Framing Theoretical Research Questions in Biology" guides research framing and debunks common misconceptions about theory. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #ProcB #Biology #Ecology #Evolution

So. Incredibly. Cool.

Our latest discovery of “lowest recorded temperature for eukaryotic cell motility” going all the way down to -15deg C. Come for the crazy cold Arctic & stay for diatoms. Will write longer thread - but enjoy video below of diatoms gliding on frozen ice surfaces. Congrats @zqing.bsky.social & team.

This is actually the best way to look at fossils. Why would I zoom in on a pdf and protect my posture when I can just place my face mere inches from the computer screen???

In today's Nature: A ‘Wikipedia for cells’ www.nature.com/articles/d41... www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

The #biovoxxel figure tools provide a convenient way in saving SVG vector graphic from Fiji and create publication figures in Inkscape. Thanks to Ved Sharma those SVGs can now also be opened in the browser and even in Adobe Illustrator, if you really have to use it (I won't blame you 😉)

Reading: Switzerland establishes center for scientific integrity From 2026, a new competence center will promote academic integrity at Swiss universities and serve as an advice center for misconduct. www.bluewin.ch/en/news/inte...

Bluesky these days

'Structural engineering of F and HN glycoproteins has led to the identification of prefusion-stabilized F and chimeric immunogens that elicit high-titer neutralizing antibodies to diverse mumps viruses in mice compared to titers routinely observed following MMR vaccination in humans.' #Immunology

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

The hero nodding in agreement during the entire presentation after the talk

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Here’s a transgenic quail embryo growing some beautiful blood vessels 😍

Hello world! Thanks for the friendly connections so far! Looking forward to explore & share science updates/stories. I share my thesis & cover on Oncolytic virotherapy for those interested in #Synbio #oncolyticviruses, virus-tumor-immune interactions & more. Link: doi.org/10.33612/diss.859671389