It was a real pleasure to host @goffinetlab.bsky.social from the @lstmnews.bsky.social today. She presented her team's recent progress in #HIV cure and #MPOX tropism and shared her experiences with junior researchers. Thanks also to @infect-net.bsky.social for making this event possible.

I am very pleased to be hosting @goffinetlab.bsky.social from @lstmnews.bsky.social tomorrow, sponsored by @infect-net.bsky.social 📣: Feodor-Lynen lecture hall @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social 🕙 18.9. 1:00 pm

🖥️ Join us online – Tuesdays at 2 PM (CET)! Register here: ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 🚀 Stay ahead, stay connected – and don’t miss our upcoming sessions!

This fresh format brings you cutting-edge expertise, hands-on lab tips, and essential professional skills – all in one place. 📅 Check out the new schedule and be part of it! achieve.g-f-v.org/registration... 2/3

🔬✨ Introducing: Expert Insights – the new seminar series by the Young Society for Virology! We’ve combined the strengths of our previous “How to” seminar series and the GfV ROUND lunch discussions into one powerful format – Expert Insights. 1/n

Abstract deadline extended!
 Submit your work for the 24th Workshop Immunobiology of Viral Infections
📅 Sept 29 – Oct 1, 2025 | 📍 Bad Salzschlirf
🔗 immunviro.g-f-v.org Keynotes: Daniel Elleder, Anke Kraft, Julia Rebecca Port
 Great talks, posters & networking — don’t miss it!

Ich denke, Jörg Timm, Vizepräsident der GfV, spricht hier für viele Virologen: "Hat uns schon überrascht" www.ndr.de/nachrichten/... (MB)

Excited to co-organize this year's Immunobiology of Viral Infections workshop with Hannes Vietzen! We’re looking forward to seeing many early career scientists working on all aspects of antiviral immunity — don’t miss it! 👇

Excited to share our Science Advances paper reporting the first 3D structure of HERV‑K Env—a novel therapeutic target in cancer and autoimmune diseases. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

'TRIM28 is a target for paramyxovirus V proteins'. Work led by Gauthier Lieber seeks to address whether host activation of endogenous retroelements contributes to antiviral defences. In support of this idea, he describes a viral mechanism that might limit this host response. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

📢 Countdown: 1 month until #Retropath2025! Registration is still open — join us in Tübingen for outstanding keynote lectures + cutting-edge research on #retroviruses and #HERVs. More info 👉 evis.events/event/469/.

Life of a #PI: deadlines don't care about vacation time. Organization before vacation is key to reducing the workload! #vacation #deadlines #grantwriting #reloadbattery #resilience

Life of a #PI: It's never too late to learn something new - my first R script 🎉! And I learned my lesson again😅: never give up too early. Stay persistent!💪 #R #script #codes #analysis #newmethod

Yesterday, I met my friends and collaborators, @jueane.bsky.social & Pedro Esteves, and celebrated with João Côrte-Real, who passed his PhD defense with flying colors at the University Porto. Thank you @lucievirevolte.bsky.social and @langloislab.bsky.social for serving as opponents. 🎓👨‍🎓 #ProudPI

Recently, Manoj Kumar Jana invited me to discuss various topics, such as how to tailor your applications. Watch here the recorded interview 👇 youtu.be/UOCfP6ZyBjo?...

Life of a #PI: Today is probably a once-in-a-lifetime experience, as I am virtually/personally in three different countries. #Lectures #Teaching #PhDdefense #Wuhan #Porto #Munich

With a little delay due to teaching committments- welcome Kelly, our first dry lab intern. We hope you have a great time with us 🤩

Mit fünf weiteren Fachgesellschaften macht sich die GfV stark dafür, die Wissenschaftsfreiheit zu verteidigen und zu festigen. Leider geschieht dies nicht im luftleeren Raum, sondern in Zeiten, in denen diese essentielle Freiheit zusehends auch bei uns unter Druck gerät. g-f-v.org/gemeinsame-s...

Congrats Alin Baur and Yanis Pignot for passing your Mastwe thesis defences with flying colors. We are very proud of you 🤩🥳.

What a great networking & impuls event organized by Female Academic Medical Excellence (FAME) @lmumuenchen.bsky.social #female #empowerment #networking

🚨 Calling all retrovirologists 🚨 Join us for RetroPATH 2025, one of the worldwide leading meetings in retrovirus research! 📍Tübingen, Germany | 📅 October 6–9, 2025 📝 Register now! evis.events/event/469/ #RetroPATH #Retroviruses #HERV

The 2nd mentoring program of the #ACHIEVE Academy has been successfully launched. 15 mentees have been selected to be mentored by senior faculty for one year to guide them through their academic careers

It was a pleasure to kick off the #MvPI PhD spring retreat at Bernried and visit the original Pettenkofer house in Seeshaupt #LoveVirology #Pettenkofer #LakeStarnberg #PhD #retreat

Die Finanzierungspause für GoF Forschung in den USA und Ländern mit unklaren Sicherheitsstandards soll zur Optimierung von Regulierungsstrukturen, ähnlich den in Europa geltenden Regeln, genutzt werden. Dabei sollten Wissenschaftler beteiligt werden um notwendige Forschung nicht zu blockieren. (LB)

The American Society for Microbiology is committed to ensuring that scientific research is conducted adhering to strict standards for biosafety and biosecurity, but pausing research is not the path forward. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...

It was a pleasure to attend the first #APG2025 symposium at UNAM Juriquilla and to listen to great keynote lectures given by @christinawarinner.bsky.social and @scs22.bsky.social. A big thanks to @dbm003.bsky.social and @paleogenomics.bsky.social and their organizing committee 👏.

Day 2 of the #APG2025 Paleoproteomics Workshop was a great success with me constructing my first phylogenetic tree using paleoproteomics. I am looking forward to the next two days at the Paleogenomics Symposium at UNAM Campus Juriquilla

Learning a lot of new things, both theoretical and practical, on day 1 of the #APG2025 Paleoproteomics workshop at UNAM Campus Juriquilla.

In light of the recently released academic freedom index (www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/news/news...), we support our partners @asm.org regarding their statement on the removal of NIH and NIAID leadership 👇 asm.org/Press-Releas... (HMB)

🥂 Ein Grund zu Feiern: Wir haben den Verband Deutscher Infektionsforscherinnen gegründet! 👩‍🔬🦠🥳 Am 25. März 2025 haben wir in München einen Verein gegründet, um die Ziele und die Mission von #InfectNet langfristig weiterzuführen und weiterzuentwickeln. 💜 #megastolz 👉 www.infectnet.org/web/blog-pos...

📝 Das war das 5. Netzwerktreffen von Infect-Net! Jetzt online: Ein ausführlicher Bericht über unsere Tagung zu #GlobalHealth an der @tum.de in München ist hier nachzulesen: 👉 www.infectnet.org/web/blog-pos... 💜 #Infektionsforschung #Infektionen #WomeninScience

Wir haben– in einem Kraftakt mit etlichen weiteren Fachgesellschaften– eine neue S2k-Leitlinie @awmf.bsky.social erstellt: "Prävention, #Diagnostik und Therapie der #CMV -Infektion bei Schwangeren und der konnatalen CMV-Infektion bei Neugeborenen und Kindern" register.awmf.org/de/leitlinie...

Unser Präsident, Prof. Ulf Dittmer, wurde von Ministerpräsident Hendrik Wüst mit dem Verdienstorden des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen ausgezeichnet. Wir gratulieren Dir ganz herzlich, lieber Ulf! 🎖️💐 (MB) www.land.nrw/pressemittei...

Wie sieht die Geschlechterverteilung in Fachgesellschaften aus? Das hat sich @kkubatzky.bsky.social im #Biospektrum genauer angeschaut - und wir sind ganz vorne mit dabei 💪. In unserem Beirat sind übrigrns mehr Wissenschaftlerinnen als Wissenschaftler vertreten. rdcu.be/efwc8 (HMB)

For US🇺🇸 scientists/virologists🦠 - if you want to find better ways for your science and career, please let me know. Let us find better ways. Please do repost/retweet

Join us for an interactive seminar on April 1st at 2 PM, led by Dr. Toni Meister from the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. She will guide you through the process of creating vector graphics for your scientific publications.

Some very bad news: New modelling predicts up to 10 million additional HIV infections following aid cuts www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

politics and bad decisions have consequences

📰✨ Wir sind sehr happy darüber, dass wir Infect-Net in der aktuellen Ausgabe des #BioSpektrums vorstellen durften! 🚀 Schaut mal rein: 👀👉 rdcu.be/efwbV @gbmev.bsky.social @vaam-microbes.bsky.social @vbio.bsky.social @gabrielepradel.bsky.social @kkubatzky.bsky.social

Life of a #PI: This is one of those super proud PI moments when one of your students successfully defends his thesis with flying colors 🤩🥳🎓👨‍🎓🥼. Congratulations Dr. Luca Schelle. Absolutely deserved 🤗 @lmumuenchen.bsky.social

Wir gratulieren unseren Mitgliedern Christina Karsten @christinakarsten.bsky.social und Asisa Volz zur Wahl als Schriftführerinnen bei Infect-Net @infect-net.bsky.social 👏🏻 (HMB)

In der Debatte über die Corona-Pandemie kommt es zu zunehmenden Verzerrungen von Fakten und zeitlich-inhaltlichen Bezügen, v.a. hinsichtlich der "Maßnahmen" und Impfung. Die GfV verfasste nun ein Stellungnahme mit Anmerkungen zur Aufarbeitung der Pandemie in Deutschland: g-f-v.org/fuenf-jahre-...

🚀 It's a wrap! 🥂 At our 5th network meeting at @tum.de in Munich, we not only discussed issues of #globalhealth and #ethics in infection research, we also held the inaugural meeting of the German association of Women in #Infection Research! 💜 More details will follow shortly 🥳🤯 stay tuned!

Es ist ein Meinungs-Artikel, aber diese "Meinung" beruft sich sehr wenig auf Fakten. Wir würden daher gerne ein paar Dinge aufklären: 1) „In den Vereinigten Staaten registrierten Regierungsbehörden" in vier Jahren "mehr als 1100 Laborvorfälle mit Bakterien, Viren und Toxinen“ 1/8

It was great to be part of the inauguration of @infect-net.bsky.social incl. great scientific talks and insights from @alenabuyx.bsky.social. Thanks a lot to the local organizers Clarissa and Ulla. And many thanks to @gabrielepradel.bsky.social for initiating this important network.

If you are attending the #AcuteLeukemiasXIX symposium at the LMU Klinikum München, then stop by poster no. 83 and talk to Selin 🤗 #AML #Leukemia

„Gain of Function“ (GoF)-Forschung aktuell in aller Munde. Unser Vorstand und die „Kommission für sicherheitsrelevante Forschung in der Virologie“ haben hierzu eine Übersicht erstellt. g-f-v.org/wp-content/u...

Kudos @baldauflab.bsky.social. Many thanks for everything you do for our community. 🙏🙏🙏 Virologinnenpower hilft. Isso. 🤷🏻‍♀️😉😎

Hanna-Mari Baldauf @Baldauf received our first Gertrude and Werner Henle Medal. For her superb science but also for her outstanding service as the first leader of the #jGfV . The #jGfV has contributed tremendously to our community building! www.mvp.uni-muenchen.de/2025/03/11/p... (BS)

Congrats to Prof. Mettenleiter for receiving this lifetime award 🥳