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

Back from the Physics of Viruses and Protein Cages GRC in the beautiful Tuscan hills. Great to see the latest developments in the field and to catch up with familiar faces. Thanks to the organisers for the invitation to present, and to everyone I spoke with for the excellent discussions.

"We recognize that much of the American public lost trust in the NIAID, the National Institutes of Health (NIH; of which the NIAID is a part), and in the greater scientific community." Factually incorrect statement on trust in Nature Medicine via NIH Director + co. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The American Society for Virology (ASV) is dedicated to advancing knowledge of viruses and the diseases they cause. ASV does not support the scaling back of the childhood vaccine schedule recently announced by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. See our statement attached.

@rcastellsg.bsky.social: Great talk at GRC!

Zoom seminar: Drawing on recent mechanistic and genetic studies, Prof Andres Merits' talk will highlight how #alphavirus #replication complex function intersects with innate #immune sensing and restriction, offering fresh perspectives on virus–host co-evolution and antiviral targeting. All welcome!

Emerging roles of lipids in the flavivirus life cycle www.cell.com/trends/micro...

Check out this new mini review. Good stuff.

Rosebowl!

New structures of the HSV-1 helicase-primase complex from @abrahamlabhms.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

My lab in the NIH Intramural Program (Bethesda, MD) will be recruiting postdoctoral fellows over the next year with flexible start dates. We work on nanoscale cellular imaging of the plasma membrane and related organelles. Please reach out if you’re interested. www.training.nih.gov/jobs/pdp-053...

Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.

Surprised not to see Trump named here. He’s probably going to sue Nature now. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose

The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.

Henrik Salje (Cambridge) joins us to discuss how dengue risk shifts across the lifespan. His team uses multigenerational cohorts and antigenic cartography to reveal how population immunity is reshaping its ecology, and what this means for disease risk/vaccines. All welcome! Message us for Zoom link.

The Gonzalez Lab at Columbia University is seeking a scientific leader! Join us in a Research Scientist position, driving single-molecule, structural, and biochemical studies of translation, translational control, and other RNA-based processes. Apply: apply.interfolio.com/176949

journals.asm.org/journal/jvi/... Congratulations to all the winners! We had over 275 applications, all with exciting research projects. Scroll through and then check back Spring 2026 to see the mini reviews written by these folks.

The Department of Biology at IU Bloomington welcomes Dr. Leslie Griffith, professor of neuroscience at Brandeis University, for the 2025-26 Tracy M. Sonneborn Memorial Lecture Series on Tuesday, December 2, at 3:30 p.m. in Biology Building A100. Learn more: go.iu.edu/8wj4/

Friends, my university is for hiring tenure-track faculty positions in biology, education, math, English, psychology, and civil engineering. Join me in the beautiful Pacific Northwest! Please share far and wide. workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau... #academicsky @saintmartinsuniv.bsky.social

Structural insights into MERS and SARS coronavirus membrane proteins www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Will try this at the conference I’m going to in January!

Eliminating interactions with the viral Fc receptor improves antibody-mediated protection against neonatal HSV infection in mice www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Later today, Thursday 20th.

#microsky #phagesky #cryoEM structure of coli #phage Bas63 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... Check out this new GEM!!! @asm.org #JVI

From mosquitoes carrying dengue and chikungunya in Indian Ocean islands to West Nile virus now endemic in parts of Europe, climate change is redrawing the global map of infectious disease. Mail & Guardian coverage our COP30 Report - mg.co.za/the-green-gu...

Psyched to say that Mike Diamond is talking at our next seminar. THURSDAY 20th Nov. All welcome! World leading #virology not to be missed - just email us for a Zoom link. Please help us with a re-post to get the word out 👍

James (Jim) Watson, LMB Nobel laureate, co-discoverer with Francis Crick of the structure of DNA, has died at the age of 97. www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/james-watson... #LMBNews #LMBAlumni

🧪 🦠 Prefusion structure, evasion and neutralization of HSV-1 glycoprotein B www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm pleased to announce 🍦 Icecream 🍨 v0.3! New features include: * Training on multiple tomograms (same training time, with linear increase in RAM) 🚀 * Logging and plotting of the loss function 📉 * The --scale option is now called --eq-weight for clarity 😉 We'd love to hear your feedback! 🙏🏽

Out now! Taxonomic expansion and reorganization of Flaviviridae @vasilakislab.bsky.social @grovearmada.bsky.social & co #microsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Data for smthg we have all been observing pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41033288/

What an opportunity

Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️

New paper out in iScience @cellpress.bsky.social We show that #sand_fly biting reprograms skin fibroblasts, making them more permissive to virus infection => #fibroblasts aren’t bystanders, they help define severity/clinical outcome to infection AND #vector biting is key 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

Last year it was discovered that a single bacterial NLR-like protein can recognize multiple, structurally unrelated phage proteins (Béchon et al, Kibby et al) Now, a new study shows the same for a plant NLR. Another example how principles of immunity remain conserved from bacteria to eukaryotes

My department at Dartmouth Medical School is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor. We are looking broadly for a biochemist or cell biologist. Please share this add! apply.interfolio.com/171438 @dartmouthbcb.bsky.social @futurepislack.bsky.social

The UofA is hiring for a Principal Scientist in cancer immunology! This isn’t a typical academic position—we're looking for a scientist with a great idea but needs time/resources to translate and commercialize. Please repost and apply if interested! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Remembering David Baltimore (1938–2025): Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Loving this!

So we were told no money for incoming graduate student fellowships, no money for faculty hires, no money for cost of living raises, and no way is there money for back up power in one of our science buildings. But magically our football coach can get an 11 Mil annual salary for several years?

So happy to see this in print! Led by the brilliant (almost Dr.) @castellosanjuan.bsky.social, with the amazing guidance of @rubengonzalez.bsky.social & @jarednigg.bsky.social. We used to think persistent infections were harmless… but our latest work shows otherwise. Read it to learn more!

And how can we find this out for sure?

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice: