Thrilled to share the first major preprint from the lab. Viruses are classically viewed as targets of host sensing. Do viruses also sense and respond to the host? We propose viruses may act as “biosensors” of the host signaling state. A thread👇🏾 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Put a perspective piece together on how fever may have driven the evolution of antiviral genes: rupress.org/jem/article/...

1/ We are making progress towards finding a cure for HIV. In a trial @UCSF led by Steve Deeks and @michaelpelusomd.bsky.social, 7/10 participants who received a combination of immunotherapies achieved partial control of HIV after stopping antiretroviral therapy (ART).🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We're hiring in my Division of Berkeley MCB. Come be my new colleague!

I'm excited to announce our new biorxiv preprint, wherein we investigate the evolution of the weirdest genetic locus I've ever seen! Behold the tgr genes of the social amoeba, which mediate self/non-self discrimination during facultative multicellularity 🐅 🧵 1/ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

During his 36-year career at Fred Hutch, @memerman.bsky.social made fundamental discoveries about HIV, co-founded the field of paleovirology and mentored generations of scientists. bit.ly/4nMqOmr @hutchbasicsci.bsky.social

We are thrilled to announce the 2025 Leading Edge Fellows! 40 outstanding postdoctoral fellows doing pioneering research in a wide range of biological and biomedical disciplines. Learn more about these exceptional scientists: www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows

#standupforscience2025 @ohainlelab.bsky.social

I’ve been seething and grieving since yesterday’s Friday Night Massacre of NIH overheads, a seeming bit of bureaucratic trivial that will in fact destroy the US university system if unchecked. But I want to get away from budgets and rate breakdowns and F&A percentages for a moment. Humor me?

Congratulations @memerman.bsky.social! - former trainee whose life was transformed by your mentorship 🙋‍♀️

I had a fantastic visit to the University of Utah Human Genetics Department this week full of fantastic scientific conversations This was a trainee-invited seminar (the best!) so special thanks to the postdocs in the department for the invite

Hello! I’m new here. If you follow me on the other place give me a follow here so I can find you

We are excited to welcome rotation student, Bridgett Rios, to the lab Bridgett comes to us from the Infectious Diseases and Immunity Ph.D. program Welcome Bridgett!

This is the first graduate student I've mentored to graduate so particularly special for me This is also likely to only student I will have the privilege to have co-mentored with my own Ph.D. mentor (Michael Emerman) Excited to see what's ahead for Joy

I had a fantastic visit to UVA Dept of Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology for a Seminar this week Many thanks to [email protected] for the invite!

The Ohainle Lab is excited to welcome two @BerkeleyMCB rotation students this Fall: Anthony Vo and Michael Singer. Welcome!

UC Berkeley School of Public Health is hiring. Apply! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04071

Fantastic day on Lake Tahoe with the Ohainle Lab and the Nuñez Lab

My department is hiring. Apply!

Hello Bluesky, I'm Molly. I'm a scientist interest in understanding how viruses infect cells, how cells fight back against infection and all the ways viruses evade host defenses. My lab is also here @ohainlelab.bsky.social. More to come from both myself and the lab so watch this space!

West Coast Retrovirus Meeting abstract deadline is this Friday sites.research.uci.edu/cri/seminars...

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