We are looking for a research scientist to join us! asv.mcjobboard.net/jobs/221333?...

Ended the week on two good notes. Zoe presented her MS work at the Biotech poster session and Melody defended her undergraduate honors thesis. Proud of both!

@lstmnews.bsky.social goes #MicroSoc! Phase separation between bacteriologists and virologists is an artifact just for the picture 😊 @microbiologysociety.org

She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since. But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.

Sara!!

🦟 Really excited for our next seminar! @chantalvogels.bsky.social (Yale) on how mosquito & virus factors shape Wolbachia-mediated inhibition of dengue; a key question for biocontrol. Thurs 16 April, 4pm UK / 11am ET 📍 Zoom — DM or email us for the link, all welcome!

Congratulations to Karen Maxwell @themaxwelllab.bsky.social on the 2026 Peter Gilgan Canada Gairdner Momentum Award! An amazing selection and leader in the bacterial immunity field! www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0pg...

Blue!!!!!

Awesome Master’s degree level #Phycology job at UC Berkeley! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05258?fbc...

Structural and phylogenetic analyses of umbravirus and umbra-like virus genomes suggest evolution of capsid-like proteins from 30K movement proteins journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Dutch Annual Virology Symposium today 😁

Extract: We invite applications for a Research Associate position specializing in Cryo-EM, providing support and training for researchers in structural biology. The role involves microscope operation, research advisement, and facility management.

You know it’s bad when even Switzerland stops being neutral www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/sw...

Out today: We discovered new viral proteins that target immune signaling molecules, solely based on their AlphaFold-predicted shapes www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Congrats Nitzan Tal and coauthors! Thank you Kranzusch lab for the fun collaboration! Linking below previous thread on our findings

@nitzantal.bsky.social @romihadary.bsky.social @soreklab.bsky.social use structure prediction and in silico binding site analysis to discover viral immune evasion proteins! Exciting for our lab @reneechang.bsky.social @riveralopz.bsky.social to help with this project. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨VIROLOGY GRADUATE STUDENTS 🚨 Are you looking for a postdoc? We have a webinar Just for you We hope you come

Congratulations @benmorehouse.bsky.social !

Sadness. Anger. Frustration. WTAF is happening. (Perhaps not a lab opinion but the PI’s thoughts for sure)

Postbac positions available in experimental and computational biology working on #virusevolution, tick-borne viruses and computational drug discovery! Reach out if you’d like to discuss projects in the #QVEU at NIH-NIAID. Please share with any talented undergrads or MS students you know!

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Excited to have this collaboration from #QVEU and @rongellerlab.bsky.social lab out in the world! After publishing our own #DeepMutationalScanning studies on two related viruses, we asked what we learn from comparisons of such datasets. The answer is a lot!

Let’s go! Congrats!!

We're hosting Waters in Utrecht for their University Tour. Come learn about their latest LC-MS, HDX-MS, and CD-MS solutions. Next week February 26th. With our very own Cynthia Kelley on our antiviral antibody epitope mapping work by HDX-MS. Register via the link: web.cvent.com/event/f223ae...

Congratulations to Sonomi Yamaguchi for her paper at @nature.com. Sonomi discovered Clover defense and explained how nucleotide signals control each step of viral sensing, immune regulation, and viral restriction – named for her beautiful "four-leaf" structures 🍀 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Strategies to prepare for interviews in the microbiology field, including showcasing technical knowledge and discussing scientific accomplishments confidently. Understand how to align interview responses with the specific requirements and expectations of microbiology employers.

Congrats to the 2026 Ann Palmenberg Junior Investigator Awardees Arinjay Banerjee (left) and Louise Moncla (right). Check out their accolades in your member email. Read more about Ann Palmenberg's impact on virology and ASV here: news.wisc.edu/remembering-... journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

So they say athletic funds are different than grad student stipend funds but this is a case where that is not true. Can we share the love?

New modelling suggests chikungunya transmission in Europe may be possible at lower temperatures than previously thought—expanding the seasonal and geographic risk as the Asian tiger mosquito spreads north with warming climate. : royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...

I am very humbled and honoured to receive the Ann Palmenberg Junior Investigator Award. I am grateful for the support of my mentors, trainees, colleagues, collaborators, nominator, family and friends. Thank you @amersocvirology.bsky.social. #LoveVirology

I am excited to share our latest preprint - An evolutionarily divergent herpesvirus with a giant tail. Featuring symmetry breaking and genome annotation from structure using ModelAngelo. doi.org/10.64898/202...

Happy 134th birthday to humans knowing that viruses exist! OTD in 1892 Dmitri Ivanovsky presented his evidence of a tobacco mosaic disease caused by filterable agents (not bacteria!). Martinus Beijerinck confirmed this independently in 1898. And voila, virology is born!

“At the age of 23, before she'd even earned her PhD, Carol Greider made the discovery that would earn her the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Along with her supervisor and co-laureate Elizabeth Blackburn, she discovered the enzyme telomerase…”

A nice article about someone who has become a good friend - did a Master’s with someone I know in Germany, a PhD with another friend from UK, bounce around the same conferences, coathored 2 reviews - explaining her very cool work. www.the-scientist.com/plant-viruse...

Not all West Nile virus lineages behave alike: vector competence and minimum infectious dose differences between lineages 1 and 2 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.03.700853v1

My department at Washington State University is recruiting an Assistant or Associate Professor in vector-borne disease 🕷️🦟🦠 Full job description is linked below. Come join us on the Palouse!

I share this often because we easily forget Reality is very different from Equality, Equity and Justice Equality is different from Equity Equity is different from Justice We should aspire to justice for all I like to describe myself as someone who stands for justice in all of its iterations ❤️💙🧡

🚨ABSTRACT DEADLINE FEBRUARY 2🚨 🚨TRAVEL AWARD DEADLINE FEBRUARY 9🚨 Share your virology research by submitting an abstract for ASV 2026 by 11:59pm Eastern on Monday 2/2/26 Need financial support? Trainees & teachers can apply for travel awards www.asv.org/abstract-sub... www.asv.org/travel-awards

FoldMason is out now in @science.org. It generates accurate multiple structure alignments for thousands of protein structures in seconds. Great work by Cameron L. M. Gilchrist and @milot.bsky.social. 📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌐 search.foldseek.com/foldmason 💾 github.com/steineggerla...

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The ability of alphavirus replicases to synthesize non-viral type I interferon-inducing RNAs correlates with viral RNA synthesis and has a diverse impact on virus replication and pathogenicity journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

A prophage-encoded abortive infection protein preserves host and prophage spread www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The names of 72 female scientists will be added to the Eiffel Tower, to accompany those of 72 male scientists that are already engraved there tinyurl.com/e2satnyp 👏👩‍🔬 🧪

Now out in Nature! We visualize infection of the RNA virus RSV in real-time with single-vRNP resolution to understand how RSV establishes viral factories, biomolecular condensates that act as sites of viral replication. A huge collaborative effort led by Dhanushika Ratnayake! rdcu.be/e1bBW

Biochemist/molecular biologist Joan Steitz was born #OTD in 1941. She (& team) figured out how our cells read/use genetic instructions to make proteins. A key person who helped crack the code on RNA—the molecule that acts like a messenger between DNA & and the proteins our bodies need. #WomenInSTEM

Crown shyness. Pretty Zen, no? Stare. Lose yourself. Come back though.

Cryo-electron tomography reveals coupled flavivirus replication, budding and maturation www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I’m excited to recruit a postdoc to join my lab at NIAID (Rocky Mountain Labs). We study mucosal immunity and vaccine responses to respiratory viruses in a collaborative, supportive environment. Details & apply: www.training.nih.gov/jobs/pdf-miv... #Postdoc #Immunology #Virology #NIHJobs

I am super happy to share this paper in its final form. We used FIB milling to "dig in to" cell lines and mouse brains infected with tick-borne flaviviruses, followed by cryo-ET to study the virus replication. It's open access, so have a look! #virology #teamtomo www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Absolutely terrible.

Excited to share: We show that basal IFNλ2/3 signaling helps human intestinal epithelial cells stay ready for viral infections, even before an acute infection. A reminder that a lot of innate immune defense happens quietly in the background. journals.plos.org/plospathogen...