Quick trip to Nijmegen for the annual EU-funded @shield-project.bsky.social meeting 🇪🇺 Great to see the progress after year one and excited for what's ahead as we develop new ways to block viral entry and overcome glycan shielding for Nipah, Lassa, and flaviviruses. 🐼🎤🦠

Have you ever wondered: What is the Viral Glycan Shield – and why does it matter? 👀 Watch our short explainer video to find out! 🎥 #SHIELDproject #Virology #ScienceExplained #ScienceVideo For more info on the viral glycan SHIELD and our project, visit our website: shield-consortium.eu

📅 Yesterday, Christian Klein (Heidelberg University) and @leohanke.bsky.social (Karolinska Institutet) presented the SHIELD project at the @defender-project.bsky.social Symposium in Hamburg A big thanks to @pfaenderlab.bsky.social for the initiative and organisation of this inspiring event! 👏

Mysteries of trafficking of the vRNP segmented genome and assembly of influenza A virus revealed by in situ cryo-ET! 🔗 rdcu.be/eMmct We are very excited that our paper is finally out! 🎉 Big congratulations to Moritz Wachsmuth-Melm and to everyone involved.

Exciting to see our protein binder design pipeline BindCraft published in its final form in @Nature ! This has been an amazing collaborative effort with Lennart, Christian, @sokrypton.org, Bruno and many other amazing lab members and collaborators. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Meet SHIELD! 🤚 Today (and last, but not least!): The Cavalli group at CECAM/EPFL develops and applies computational methods to investigate biological systems of therapeutic interest. 🧪🧬 www.cecam.org #ComputationalBiology #EPFL #CECAM #ScienceForHealth #HorizonEU #SHIELDproject 🚀🧠💻

Meet SHIELD! ✋ Today: The Synthetic Organic Chemistry Group at Radboud University is developing new chemical biology approaches to study glycosylation in context of viral infections. www.ru.nl/en/departmen... #Glycosylation #ViralInfections #SHIELDproject #SyntheticChemistry #RadboudUniversity

Meet SHIELD ! ✋ Today: The Wandall Lab at the UCPH focuses on glycobiology, biotechnology, and cancer research, using CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, 🧫 3D tissue models, and advanced proteomics 🧪. icmm.ku.dk/english/rese... #Glycobiology #CRISPR #Proteomics #CancerResearch #UCPH #SHIELDProject

Meet SHIELD ! ✋ Today: The FlavImmunity group at Institut Pasteur uses the yellow fever 17D vaccine as a model to study flavivirus entry, maturation, and antigenicity. research.pasteur.fr/en/team/flav... #Flavivirus #VaccineResearch #StructuralBiology #YellowFever #InstitutPasteur #SHIELDproject

Meet SHIELD! ✋ Today: The research of the Lassa Virus Immunology group at the BNITM focuses on hemorrhagic fever viruses such as Lassa, Ebola, and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever viruses. 🦠🌍 Web: www.bnitm.de/en/research/... #LassaVirus #NipahVirus #TropicalMedicine #BNITM #SHIELDproject

This computer scientist is struggling to trust their postdoctoral research adviser after negative experiences with the previous two. How do you find one that’s right for you? https://go.nature.com/4kKCPXh

Meet SHIELD! ✋ Today: The Hanke Laboratory at Karolinska Institutet studies pathogens and the immune responses they elicit, with a particular focus on emerging and re-emerging RNA viruses. 🧬🔬💡 Website: ki.se/en/research/... #HorizonEU #VirusResearch #VaccineDevelopment #RNAViruses

We are ONLINE! 🤗 This is our Bluesky channel for the project SHIELD. SHIELD is a health research project funded by the European Union and co-funded by SERI. The SHIELD consortium involving partners from all over Europe will develop molecular tools to prepare the EU for future pandemic events. 💪

Ich habe mit Florian Schumann über die Kontroverse zur Herkunft von SARS-CoV-2 gesprochen - ohne Daten wird es weiterhin schwierig bleiben, sich festzulegen oder auch nur die Wahrscheinlichkeiten zu Wichten. Danke für diesen ausgewogenen Artikel! www.zeit.de/index

Dear US scientists and academics, please join us in Europe for some academic freedom and a glass or two of delicious Chablis.

We are excited to be part of the SHIELD consortium working on Henipa, Flavi and Lassa viruses!