Happy to announce that my department is looking for a new Chief Department Administrator careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

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Microbiology and Immunology Endowed Graduate Education Join me and make a gift to A Crowdfunding Default

Funding for science is significantly challenged right now and this is particularly devastating to our young scientists. If you have the means to support science on this Giving Tuesday, our trainees would be so grateful! maizeraise.umich.edu/schools/Univ...

Doing my civic duty this am with a science twist

Reconstructing EBV reactivation and DNA damage response kinetics in morphologic pseudotime Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) lytic infection contributes to virus-associated cancers and autoimmunity and depends on viral subversion of host DNA damage responses (DDR). Here, we use high-content screenin...

Elliott SoRelle’s lab has a nice preprint out about EBV reactivation dynamics with very cool microscopy methods! nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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Here is what philanthropy can do for research!
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The Board of Directors has signed this joint statement by the Infectious Diseases Society of America, joining more than 20 national medical and health organizations.

Happy to share the annual report from @umichmicroimmuno.bsky.social
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I agree with Dr. Hartert.

Nice opinion piece by Mark Schlissel nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Please spread the word and apply for the A Oveta Fuller award!

@umichmicroimmuno.bsky.social Congrats to Vern Carruthers and Alice Telesnitsky on being honored with the Novy Recognition Award!!!

@umichmicroimmuno.bsky.social Congrats to our newly promoted colleagues. Drs. Di, O’Meara, Kharyonchyk, Anderson, Bachman and Dickson. Well done all!!!

It’s the biggest self-own in American history

Agree I love her historical perspective and really appreciate her writing and insight.

I couldn’t agree more!

Congrats Joe!!!

Congratulations to Kamya Gopal from Alice Telesnitsky's lab on her successful PhD defense on “HIV-1 RNA Metabolism as a Source of Heterogeneity in Virus Gene Expression and Release”

I am excited to have the opportunity to serve on the ATS BOD! Please vote and put me to work for you and the society!

Congratulations to the newly minted Dr. Rimple on a great dissertation defense today from Vern Carruthers lab!

Slashing the IRS workforce is a handout for the rich: the top 10% of earners account for 64% of unpaid taxes in the US, and the top 1% accounts for a whopping 28%.

cc: @budgetlab.bsky.social

RFK Jr is a firehouse of disinformation. Getting measles gives you immunity, but also gives you measles with risks of encephalitis, pneumonia, and death. MMR vaccine wanes 0.04%/year, not 4.5%. For the vast majority it’s lifetime protection and it’s incredibly safe.

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NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

In 2024 NIH grant awards supported 407,782 jobs and $94.58 billion in new economic activity nationwide, the largest figure in the history of the report. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

Renowned geneticist Francis Collins retires from NIH, urging 'respect' for embattled workers Dr. Francis Collins, a renowned geneticist, and former longtime director of the National Institutes of Health, is retiring from the government agency and urging “respect” for its embattled workers.

"When you hear about patients surviving stage 4 cancer because of immunotherapy, that was based on NIH research over many decades. When you hear about sickle cell disease being cured because of CRISPR gene editing, that was built on years of research supported by NIH"

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What is this madness??????

This is not good at all. no grants released for a month. the stall is going to force people to start laying off lab personnel if not reversed. These are US taxpayer dollars that were already allocated by Congress in a budget and are supposed to be spent