Scientists at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf have examined pig slurry from the northwestern region of Germany and detected hepatitis E viruses in two-thirds of the samples, some with very high viral loads.

The 35th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Virology will take place in Heidelberg from March 17 to March 20, 2026. We have an exciting programme and look forward to welcome you here! Registration and Abstract submission are now open. Please see details here: virology-meeting.de

Great new collaboration with @thmllr.bsky.social and Hans-Georg Kräusslich from @ciid-heidelberg.bsky.social came out on December 1st #HIV day - nuclear speckles & HIV capsid & antivirals gallore!!!

Join us (again) for another fantastic BioMalPar meeting @embl.org and also a great pre-meeting @ciid-heidelberg.bsky.social

Wow, researchers from our #SFB1129 are implicated in the Science 2024 Breakthrough of the Year, because they showed that HIV-capsids are flexible and go through nuclear pores. The latest paper on Lenacapavir-induced capsid damage just came out in @embojournal.org link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Science’s 2024 Breakthrough of the Year was lenacapavir, an injectable drug that demonstrated remarkable success at preventing HIV infection with one shot every 6 months. Learn more about last year's #BOTY on #WorldAIDSDay: https://scim.ag/48pk7zZ

#WorldAIDSDay2025 AIDS, which is caused by HIV infection, ranks among the top ten causes of death worldwide. Despite medical advances, a cure for HIV remains elusive. To overcome disruption, we must innovate, collaborate, and accelerate research. Learn more about our HIV research: www.dzif.de/en/hiv

Lab life and Christmas cookies can match when the students get creative

📢 Paper alert 📢 Chirality is known to be important for the movement of microorganisms and active matter. In our new paper out today in @natphys.nature.com, we show that chirality is used by malaria parasites to control their motion patterns: doi.org/10.1038/s415... Here comes a 🧵 ... (1/9)

Malaria Parasites Move on Right-Handed Helices: Motion patterns help the transition between tissue compartments – explanation for asymmetry in the body plan of the pathogen www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/...

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

Next Tech Program Open till 2/27/2026 Technician + engineering support for junior research group leaders at Alliance institutions. 👉strengthens junior research group leaders’ technical capacity by funding 👉one full-time technical position. www.health-life-sciences.de/opportunities/nexttech

Interesting @hhh-idia.bsky.social seminar by Johan Elf from @uu.se during his visit of our imaging facility @ciid-heidelberg.bsky.social. In his talk he showcased a microfluidic device for rapid antibiotic-resistance testing.

Now recruiting several PhD students and postdocs for different projects of our excellence cluster SynthImmune: application.synthimmune.de For more info see perspective article below and synthimmune.de

Beautiful beasts (2): Thanks Ian for allowing us to help a little to help you figuring out how B-cells help T-cells. What a spectacular cover coloured by #micronaut Martin Oeggerli.

We are looking to recruit a Ph.D. student to start in Q1 2026 for an exciting new project that is part of the newly funded SynthImmune Cluster of Excellence. Are you interested in the intersection of virology and immunology? Please see the attached info and apply at application.synthimmune.de.

Respiratory viruses update: #RSV & #influenza activity remain at low levels in the EU/EEA; however, circulation of both viruses has begun to increase, with a rise in flu infections occurring earlier than in recent seasons. #COVID19 activity still widespread but decreasing. More info: erviss.org

🧬 #HIV bildet lebenslange Reservoire in Immunzellen. DZIF-Forschende am Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg haben einen unbekannten Mechanismus entschlüsselt, mit dem HIV-1 seine Integrationsorte im menschlichen Erbgut auswählt. Diese Erkenntnisse eröffnen neue Wege für potenziell heilende Behandlungen.

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.

Presenting Stimulator Grant 2025 Recipients: 💉 Michael Mastalerz and 🧫Viet Loan Dao Thi are working on a broad-spectrum antiviral therapy for #hepatitisE. This project aims to synthesize novel nucleobase antiviral compounds and inhibit HEV infection. daothilab.bsky.social @uniheidelberg.bsky.social

Together with Ralf Bartenschlager @ciid-heidelberg.bsky.social we are looking for a PhD student! The project @trr179.bsky.social will revolve around (Hepatitis) viruses and the regulation of pattern recognition receptors in innate antiviral immunity. Contact us if you're interested! #PhDPosition

🦠 Abstract submission for the 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for Virology is open! Share your research with the virology community and help shape the scientific dialogue next year in Heidelberg. 🕐 Deadline: Jan 4, 2026 🔗 virology-meeting.de/programme-ab... #GfV2026 #virology #virologymeeting

Now out in @biophysj.bsky.social with open access and for the special issue dedicated to Erich Sackmann: our model for mechanochemical signal propagation in cell layers. Led by Dennis Wörthmüller from @institutcurie.bsky.social and implemented with discontinuous Galerkin FEM. doi.org/10.1016/j.bp...

🧬DZIF and international researchers discovered an antibody that effectively neutralized over 300 HIV-1 strains in the lab, reduced HIV viral loads substantially in humanized mice and overcame classic resistance mechanisms. 👉 t1p.de/xe9rq #HIV @uniklinikkoeln.bsky.social

The immunology of brain tumors | Science Immunology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Happy to share this review article by @lukasbunse.bsky.social, Theresa Bunse and I @platten-lab.bsky.social, Michael Kilian, Fran Quintana @quintanalabhms.bsky.social.

Beautiful beasts: excited to see our first volume electron microscopy study on malaria parasites published: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... revealing new insights into Plasmodium ookinete development. Thanks for great EMBL-Umea-Heidelberg collaboration.

🚀We’re hiring! Join our international team at @ciid-heidelberg.bsky.social and @uniheidelberg.bsky.social as a PhD Student or Postdoctoral Researcher to lead cutting edge research projects at the virus-host interface Postdoc: tinyurl.com/d5sdhbnp PhD: tinyurl.com/bdz5e5u6

Super interesting virus: #hepatitas 😅 E virus #HEV! @daothilab.bsky.social looked into its ORF2 protein and how it counteracts cell-intrinsic immune responses. Congrats Ann-Kathrin, Loan and team, and thanks for having us on board! dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... (Hepatitas® by the Orange Superbrain)

🎉 Congratulations 👏! Heidelberg virologist and #DZIF professor Stephan Urban has won the Chris McGuigan Drug Discovery Award for his groundbreaking work on Hepcludex© (bulevirtide), the first approved therapy for chronic hepatitis D. 🔗 Read more: t1p.de/gdojz #DrugDiscovery #Virology #Hepatitis

Feeling deeply honored to receive this year's Aventis Life Science Bridge Award. Grateful to the Aventis Foundation for their support, and to my colleagues, mentors, collaborators, and my amazing research team who make this work possible. Excited to keep pushing our HIV research forward together.

www.dzif.de/en/how-hiv-e... @dzif.bsky.social @dfg.de @natmicrobiol.nature.com #HIV #HIVScience #HIVCure #Nucleus #Nucleararchitecture #Splicing #R-loops #Genomeorganization

Researchers from CSSB & @mpi-nat.bsky.social have generated a highly potent nanobody that neutralizes a protein essential for the herpes virus infection. Published in @nature.com, the findings promise new therapies to treat & prevent infections @leibnizliv.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de t1p.de/cxt7a

Our work "Aquarius helicase facilitates HIV-1 integration into R-loop enriched genomic regions" is out @natmicrobiol.nature.com, showing HIV-1 integration into R-loop genomic regions upon their resolution by cellular splicing helicase Aquarius (AQR) of the Intron Binding Complex (IBC)🧵.

#Tuberculosis poses a serious threat to people with weakened immune systems. However, standard testing is not sufficient for reliable TB diagnosis or prediction, as a high-profile study involving more than 2,600 patients from eleven European countries revealed @fzborstel.bsky.social @uni-saarland.de

Why are communities key to research—and why does language matter in science? Watch DZIF scientists and Marc Franke, one of the few cured of #HIV & DZIF Patient Advisory Board member, in a talk from #AIDS2024 in Munich. 🎤📺 ▶️ t1p.de/a3p82 @fraukemuecksch.bsky.social @raifderrazi.bsky.social

🚀 New in Advanced Science: RAB5A drives active fluid wetting in breast cancer spheroids by reprogramming cell mechanics. doi.org/10.1002/advs... 👏 Kudos to first author Grégoire Lemahieu and our amazing co-authors for this joint effort! #CancerMechanobiology #CellAdhesion #RAB5A #TeamScience

Now out in ACS Infectious Diseases @pubs.acs.org: joint work from the Lanzer, Tanaka, Schwarz and Cavalcanti-Adam labs within #SFB1129 on the adhesion footprint of malaria-infected infected red blood cells. Read the open access paper here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

🌍👩🏾‍🔬Backed by #ChooseEurope, which aims to attract top global talent, the programme will boost EU competitiveness & improve the well-being of its people. It will build on past success by scaling proven solutions & investing where it’s most needed. Learn more 💶 europa.eu/!w77nKY #ThePowerOfTogether

Opening for a professorship in multimodal imaging in the context of our cluster of excellence #3DMM2O. Here is the full advertisement with all details: tinyurl.com/2ksy2b2s

Very inspiring, but also sort of sad: last of the annual retreats of our wonderful #SFB1129 on pathogens, which just entered its 12th and last year. But there is also some good news: it will end in one year from now with an international conference that everyone will be able to attend👍😀

Viruses under the super microscope: How influenza viruses communicate with cells @helmholtzhzi.bsky.social‬ #influenza #viruses #virology #microscopy

#Measles can be fatal. Do you know its symptoms? 🔸 Rash that starts on the face and spreads over the body 🔸 Fever 🔸 Runny nose 🔸 Cough 🔸 Red and watery eyes 🔸 Small white spots inside the cheeks Seek health care if you suspect you or your child has measles.

Welcome to CIID @munschauerlab.bsky.social! We are looking forward to having you here and to many fruitful and exciting years of working together!

We are excited to announce that the jGfV Virtual Lecture Series is now also available On-Demand for all GfV-Members! See below on how to get started. Enjoy the first lecture "How to eradicate a virus" given by Dr. Sindy Böttcher and Prof. Klaus Überla in case you have missed it

#Measles can lead to severe, long-term complications and can even cause your immune system to forget how to resist infections. 🔸Brain damage 🔸Severe diarrhoea and dehydration 🔸Deafness 🔸Blindness 🔸Pneumonia

🦢 Avian Influenza Update | March–June 2025 New EU joint report from EFSA, @ecdc.europa.eu and EU Reference Lab shows a decline in #HPAI cases across Europe this spring. Key takeaways in the animation below. 📄 Full report → europa.eu/!RVJX3r #BirdFlu #EFSA #AnimalHealth #PublicHealth

Die Abteilung Virologie am Zentrum für Infektiologie lädt gemeinsam mit der Aidshilfe Heidelberg am 1. Juli 2025 um 17 Uhr in die Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften am Karlsplatz zu einer interaktiven Veranstaltung ein.

Finally published: discovery of an unusual Arp2/3 complex with surprising new function in transmission of #malaria #parasites. Great work by Franzi Hentzschel, Yvonne Sokolowski + David Jewanski + fantastic collaboration with Matthias Marti: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are happy this work by Sarah Peterl et al. is out in EMBO J! It was an exciting collaborative effort of several groups in the SFB1129 consortium on pathogen replication and spread. Check out the correlated light and scanning EM method to study virus morphology changes during spread!

The new excellence cluster GreenRobust is recognized by the local RNZ newspaper: