Most entertaining talk so far at #IBRC2025 by Fauzan.

After 11 years, Aaron and I tag teamed a joint seminar on Genotype to Phenotype: Bat immunity at #IBRC2025 @batresearch.bsky.social @ibrc2025.bsky.social

Day 4 #IBRC2025

If you don't catch me at #SMBE2025 in Beijing on Tuesday maybe you'll catch me at #UQ or #IBRC2025 in Cairns, Australia the week after! IBRC made pretty promo pictures for each talk.

Nipah virus infects another in India's hot spot www.cidrap.umn.edu/nipah/nipah-...

While I've been at talks all morning, #ASV2025 just officially started, with an inspiring virologist: Charlie Rice. #Virology

#SMBE2025 Symposium 20: Thematic symposium: evolution of immunity 🔗 smbe2025.scimeeting.cn/en/web/program/25070

Yesterday #CDC posted an extraordinary (also thorough & very useful) pre-buttal of claims about thimerosal in flu vaccines that will be made tomorrow at #ACIP. #HHS made CDC take it down. Never a dull moment these days. www.statnews.com/2025/06/25/c...

Interferon-epsilon, an estrogen-induced type I interferon, is uniquely exploited by Neisseria gonorrhoeae via effects on sialic acid metabolism @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

A crazy week. One MSc student successfully defended. A PhD TAC agrees the student can submit. AI (student)-assignmemts marked and the Center for Infection, Immunity & Cancer symposia successfully concluded..

⚠️ Discovery of a new mode of viral transmission: Deltaviruses spread through a viral Trojan Horse ! These viral satellites that do not encode their own glycoproteins, are in fact physically encapsulated within their helper virus particles! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A thread 1/14

#CSHA #Suzhou #CellDeathandInnateImmunity

Recombination between positive-sense and negative-sense RNA viruses: journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

We look forward seeing you tomorrow for Prof. Sampson's webinar on "Developing Research Capacity inAfrica: Focus on Pathogen Bioinformatics and Vaccine Development". Register: www.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi.... @sbvirologia.bsky.social @amersocvirology.bsky.social @mauriciolnogueira.bsky.social

CONFERENCE announcement: Two upcoming bat meetings. Come join us to learn all things about bats in Chicago and Cairns.

Measles cases top 350 in Texas-New Mexico measles outbreak www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/meas...

If you want an unbiased tear-apart of our latest nature paper - check out @microbetv.bsky.social 's views on TWIV. TWiV 1191: The pandemic duo microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-11... (starting at 49:53)

Never having worked in the US, I never realized that indirect costs could escalate to 70% of direct costs. Personally I think this is insane and a gross miss-appropriation of funding by administration. That being said, 15% is not enough by any means. It certainly cannot be implemented

Despite carrying lethal pathogens, bats rarely develop disease — a phenomenon that has intrigued scientists for decades https://go.nature.com/4hBWzL0

A news article for a lay summary also: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We're new here—help us spread the word! 🦇 🚀 Please like, follow, and share as we build our presence. We don’t have all the handles yet, so it is difficult tag everyone just yet!! If you are here - let us know 🙌💙

And a good quick News & Views summary on our latest work : www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Happy to report that our work on immune system adaptations in bats is now out in @nature.com 🦇🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @ariadnamorales.bsky.social @batresearch.bsky.social @virology.bsky.social @DGKontopoulos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy @sgn.one @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social Read more ...

Finally online - Bat genomes illuminate adaptations to viral tolerance and disease resistance www.nature.com/articles/s41... @hillermich.bsky.social @virology.bsky.social @emmateeling.bsky.social

Potential Ebola outbreak reported in DRC at a time of strained U.S.-WHO relations www.statnews.com/2025/01/28/p...

Receptor-binding proteins from animal viruses are broadly compatible with human cell entry factors www.nature.com/articles/s41...

OneHealth **PhD Opportunity** to work at the interface of gamebird management, AMR evolution and spread, and zoonotic disease risk with me @Exeter’s Cornwall Campus and collaborators @UKHSA. #ExeterCEC #PhDsky #AcademicSky @uniexecec.bsky.social 🧪🌎🕷️🔬 Apply here: www.surrey.ac.uk/bbsrc-wessex...

Second fully funded PhD in our lab! @edinuni-irr.bsky.social Interested in how endogenous retroelements shape bat immune responses? Fully funded PhD with some teaching in China. Excellent supervisors include @batresearch.bsky.social biomedical-sciences.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate... #ViroSky #Immunosky

Virology—the path forward. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Double-take: SARS-CoV-2 has evolved to evade human innate immunity, twice www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Christmas celebrations for the ZJE Batlab..

6/9 essays I marked used AI, but this one... The remainder was largely plagiarized from a review.

Virion morphology and on-virus spike protein structures of diverse SARS-CoV-2 variants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.21.572824v1