I am once again begging universities to take political action and support faculty taking action. Instead of doubling grant-writing efforts, give faculty .01 fte for writing op eds and articles telling the public how important their research is. Devote communications resources to the same.

@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/...

The giant viruses surprised us at almost every turn of this project, but ultimately led us down a very rewarding path. Happy to share this work is now available online 🧪

Viral entry converges on a cellular stress pathway to remodel host ribosomes by redirecting an additional copy of a 60S ribosomal protein to the 40S subunit! Really cool story from my colleague Hsin-Yu.

The latest preprint from the lab is out! Here we used structural clustering and immunoprecipitations to uncover some networks in our knowledge of giant virons proteomes. An interesting story by Hela Safi and @ambsch.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Are viruses capable of regulating protein synthesis in the nuanced way of cellular organisms? Kinda! I’m excited to share some of my postdoc work that leveraged giant DNA viruses to address this question.

Our story describing the Panoptes bacterial immune defense system is now finally peer-reviewed and published today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

>18,000 new genomes of giant DNA viruses! An incredible trove of new genes and insights into evolution of host-virus interactions from @fmschu.bsky.social and @jgi.doe.gov www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Starting the lab Bluesky account to share a preprint from @aragucci.bsky.social and @sadieantine.bsky.social‬ that reveals molecular principles shared across diverse nuclease-NTPase anti-phage defense systems in bacterial immunity (1/7) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...