Noga’s brain child hits (pre)print! A very neat story at the confluence of viruses, RNP granules, and warnings about assuming beta coronaviruses all play by the same rules…

Less private jets, more water bombers

A lovely paper out of the Locker lab from Dr. Marques! Picornaviruses really hate G3BP1. Methodical breakdown of the antiviral role of RNA granules vs granule proteins, not an easy thing to do. Worth reading for the stunning microscopy alone! Congrats

It's out! 🎉 Excited to share our latest paper in @plos.org Pathogens! We set out to understand the role of #StressGranules in the #antiviral response against #RNAviruses, using #FMDV as our model. Here's what we found: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Super-resolution atlas of SARS-CoV-2 infection reveals protease-dependent organelle maturation, dsRNA landscapes, and intracellular structural proteins www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are pleased to be a media partner for the @embo.org @embl.org Symposium: The complex life of RNA Abstract submission: 7 Jul 2026 Registration (On-site): 1 Sep 2026 Registration (Virtual): 6 Oct 2026 bit.ly/4qpp83e #EESRNA @events.embl.org

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Today the first recovered patient was released from an Ebola treatment unit in the DRC after two negative tests. Because so much of the Ebola news is so dark and filled with despair I want to make sure I am intentional about sharing the wins. www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...

Wrote a short piece on Transposable Elements as catalysts of evolutionary innovation for a forthcoming special issue of @naturerevgenet.bsky.social on, duh, Evolutionary Innovation! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 1/5 Check out the 2nd preprint from our lab on how IRES-mediated translation of synthetic circRNAs is employed in cells and in cell-free translation extracts, a highly collaborative effort with @immagina.bsky.social & the labs of @andershlund.bsky.social and CK Chen www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Really neat paper suggesting that STING helps nucleate stress granules near the ER. This beautifully and physically highlights the integration of classical antiviral pathways and RNP granules www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An engineered viral RNA degrader on mitochondrial surface that mitigates RNA virus infection @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We should all think twice before providing personal feedback on scientific presentations. For example, criticizing an accent is pointless. If you had difficulty understanding a presentation, suggest that the speaker slow down; don't point out their origin.

So how do mRNAs get localised at specific areas of the cell if there are no unifying sequence or structural patterns? Work from the labs of @simonbullock11.bsky.social @carter-lab.bsky.social @natsmb.nature.com provides insightful answers to this longstanding question. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Retrovirus insertions in host transcripts trigger de novo piRNA immunity: Kirsten-André Senti, @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social et al investigate the 20th-century invasion of D. melanogaster by iERV Tirant to reveal piRNA-pathway evolution in response to new threats link.springer.com/article/10.1...

SUPER COOL to have my recent paper highlighted by CoV transcription legends, Drs Isabel Sola & Sonia Zuñiga in a PLoS Bio Primer. A much better read than the AI summary of the paper 💥 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Very cool to finally be able to see what is going in with SARS-CoV-2/sarbecoviruses in horseshoe bats!

I did some research to try and figure out when my death date would be if there had been no treatment for my cancer. I don't know why I assumed it would be some date in the future, but, in fact, I passed the middle of the "no treatment survival" bell curve more than a year ago. Thanks chemo.

Proud of Louisa Iselin. Not the easiest PhD, covid, two supervisors (shabazlab.bsky.social) moving labs, but she pushed through and delivered a really solid piece of work on how interferon reshapes RNA-protein interactions post-translationally www.cell.com/cell-reports...

💥 Paper published 💥 Curious how #SARS2 has changed since jumping into humans? We were too! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... 🧵 🧵 🧵

Despite decades of intensive research, current approaches to treating #NeurodegenerativeDiseases only slow down the seemingly inevitable. Could recent data associating #vaccines with reduced risk of #dementia offer an unexpected beacon of hope?🧪 @sparrerlab.bsky.social

Endogenous retroviruses synthesize heterologous chimeric RNAs to reinforce human early embryo development www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

RIP Catherine O'Hara, I have never not laughed at this

This one might be even better @barrlab.bsky.social

Although using AI for science writing is spooky, I feel like now I’m allowed to write with more pizzazz (just to show im human)

Writing is thinking "On the value of human-generated scientific writing in the age of large-language models." www.nature.com/articles/s44...

#Virology Herpesviruses exploit a cellular membrane protein, once thought to transport chloride, to escape the nucleus by tapping into an ancient membrane fusion process

Review @natrevimmunol.nature.com @martint-babraham.bsky.social @babrahaminst.bsky.social RNA-binding proteins and ribonucleoproteins as determinants of immunity www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our new paper is out in Nature 🎉. We show that m1Ψ in mRNA vaccines doesn’t just quiet immunity, it also directly enhance translation by reshaping ribosome dynamics in a sequence-dependent way 🧬 Full paper : rdcu.be/eY5gx

Very happy to share my latest preprint on clade IIb MPXV. After infection in a mouse model, the virus had highest titre in the testes with delayed clearance. This led to significant destruction in the testes and reduced sperm - what are the longterm implications? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Christmas present to me! I won first place in the LCI/CMF Striking Image Competition! Thanks to the LCI and CMF teams!

Two ancient humans, including famed ‘Iceman,’ had cancer-causing virus www.science.org/content/arti...

Recombination between strains fuels pervasive adaptive evolution among human gut commensal bacteria, and strongly implicate host diet and lifestyle as critical selection pressures @nature.com @nanditagarud.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Announcing the 2026 edition of the EMBO workshop on RNA localization and local translation! This meeting will be held June 30 - July 4 near Porto, Portugal. Come for exciting updates in the field from both established investigators and trainees. See the link below for details!

I am happy to share that my postdoctoral work in the @gerlichlab.bsky.social at @imbavienna.bsky.social is finally out 🎉! Our study reveals how cohesin guides focused and accurate homology search. Read more 👉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Follow along for key insights and updates! 🧵

mRNA circularization is crucial for initiating codon-usage-dependent translation, whereas viral RNAs bypass this mechanism by blocking circularization, allowing efficient translation despite poor codon usage @nature.com #LiuLab www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Energy transitions can happen faster than we think: In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels. In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.

Do you want to image RNA in living cells? Check out our new live-cell Click labeling approach. An amazing collaboration with the Meier Lab at UHH and the Wagenknecht Lab at KIT! doi.org/10.1002/anie... Congratulations, especially to Doerte, Eileen, and Iven! Thanks to DFG CRC1648

November is a big month for the lab with *two* new papers by @ehartenian.bsky.social and @alexandraboegli.bsky.social ++ co authors now online. www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath 50 reasons to want more walkable cities.

Persistent mirusvirus infection in the marine protist Aurantiochytrium www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Multiple rotavirus species encode fusion-associated small transmembrane (FAST) proteins with cell type-specific activity journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Check out the latest work from our lab, led by Arash Latifkar @ara-latifkar.bsky.social , www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our new preprint is out 🥳🥳🥳 Henipaviruses, like Nipah and Hendra, package their genomes inside helical shells built by thousands of nucleoproteins. These nucleocapsids are essential to protect the viral RNA, but how do they ever let the polymerase in to read the sequence? 👇

1/ Excited to share our new study with @brumbaugh-lab.bsky.social, out in @natbiotech.nature.com! P-bodies selectively sequester RNAs encoding cell fate regulators, often from the preceding developmental stage. Releasing these RNAs can drive changes in cell identity. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats to the Blue Jays. I’m going to sulk for a few days but what an amazing season for the @mariners.com Proud of this team

Virus driven Disruption of Transcription Termination (DoTT) generated cellular Z-RNAs are bona fide ZBP1 ligands driving cell death as a host response to counter viral disruption of the cellular transcriptional machinery @nature.com @foxchasecancer.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧬 Exciting news from our lab 🧬 The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has approved our project studying KSHV and RNA decay: our first grant since re-launching the lab in Switzerland 🎉 We’re now looking for a Postdoc and a PhD student to join the team (start date January 2026) - please repost!

I made a sign for the lab with our informal lab motto, inspired by this convo between @itaiyanai.bsky.social and Martin Lercher: nightscience.buzzsprout.com/1744020/epis.... A good reminder that talking is among the best forms of thinking!