🚨 A #postdoc position is available @lambrechtslab.bsky.social @pasteur.fr ➡️ Come join our team to investigate the #genomic variations underlying the adaptive potential and vectorial capacity of Aedes aegypti #mosquitoes 🦟 More details at this link: research.pasteur.fr/b/1Cov
Not enough UK dads are engaging with this consultation!
A short survey could help make the world a slightly better place.
www.gov.uk/government/c...
Deadline is April 20th! Let’s get those viruses
Final call to submit your abstract for #OptionsXIII in #Washington, DC
🗓 Deadline this Friday 10 April
Submit now: buff.ly/M0XfKjt
#Influenza #RespiratoryViruses
Contact: bjoern.meyer@med.ovgu.de
Master's student in Germany and looking for potential PhD positions? Interested in viruses, evolution or virus-host interactions? But haven't found the right lab or project yet?
Writing your own project proposal and applying for a PhD scholarship might be on option for you....
Then get in touch
In February 2021, a town in Brazil showed up for a groundbreaking randomized Covid vax trial, providing evidence of population effects of mass vaccination in a pandemic.
My latest @plos.org post digs into this exciting precedent & why it matters:
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2026/03/28/a...
📢We’re hiring!
3 Research Associates to join Professor Arthur Kaser's lab at #CITIID to investigate FAMIN, a core enzyme we discovered that prevents inflammation and autoimmunity.
➡️https://buff.ly/Gtbb6ss
➡️https://buff.ly/W4cr9xC
➡️https://buff.ly/kDv7VdI
Apply by 9 April.
💥 Paper published 💥
Curious how #SARS2 has changed since jumping into humans? We were too!
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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How diverse is bacterial immunity ?
We report in @science.org how language models allowed us to predict 2.4M antiphage proteins spanning >23K novel potential systems.
👏 @emordret.bsky.social, @alexhv.bsky.social & al doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Explore them here defensefinder.mdmlab.fr/wiki/refseq_...
Great tribute to Robin from the Microbiology Society.
AND this understates the problem as many submissions are initially rejected with an invitation to resubmit. This often makes the gap between 'Received' and Accepted appear way shorter than it actually was.
Monthly median Received to Accepted time (days) at Nature Genetics
We are excited to share our new paper in Molecular Cell uncovering how the viral lncRNA RNA2.7 reshapes host cell biology!
sciencedirect.com/science/authShare/S1097276526001565/20260324T143400Z/1?md5=16c84051c2f253c4665427f837a529d3&dgcid=author
A thread 🧵
Delighted to highlight our new publication re. CCHFV hijacking of lipid metabolism!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Congratulations to all a the HEAL team and to our collaborators!
@solene-denolly.bsky.social
@ciri-lyon.bsky.social
@crcl-research.bsky.social
𝘈𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘯 𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘺𝘢𝘭𝘦 is a newly discovered species of wingless #fly from China that lives in a very specific home: the base of a horseshoe bat's ear! 🦇
Access the full study here: doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1273.183551
@ucph.bsky.social
#bat #parasite #endoparasite #morphology
Headshot of the late Professor Robin Weiss
You can now read the Society's full tribute to former President Professor Robin Weiss FRS. Robin was an Honorary Member and, in addition to serving as President from 2006 to 2009, was the winner of the Marjory Stephenson Prize Lecture in 2015: https://microb.io/4dRe7Ei
Do you want to move to Oxford and join our lab? There is a computational biologist position open atm to develop and implement tools to analyse TE expression in single cell long read data and more. Apply! #TEsky #UniversityofOxford #postdoc
Wow. Black tree frogs and radiation-loving fungus?!
A fascinating look at how wildlife has adapted in Chernobyl over the years.
Worth a read: www.sciencefocus.com/nature/5-ser...
🔬 We’re hiring in Zürich🇨🇭!
My lab is recruiting a new PhD student in molecular immunology (interferons, autoantibodies & viral disease). Position is fully-funded. Starting date anticipated to be late 2026/early 2027.
Further details and how to apply: tinyurl.com/IMVPhD2026
Deadline 1st May 2026.
Someone suggested BA.3.2 might preferentially infect kids. I think they're right.
Ages of SARS-2 sequences since Dec 1 in Ireland:
non-BA.3.2
6/66 (9.1%) age 0-19, (0/1 hospital tests)
BA.3.2
43/91 (47.3%) age 0-19 (1/3 hospital tests)
1/4
A colleague summed up the current situation as "publish AND perish"
Great to hear our @lab-rihn-th.bsky.social & Ravi Gupta speaking last night alongside @thav-lab.bsky.social on preparing for the next pandemic. Important insights on future zoonotic coronaviruses, viral evolution under immune pressure & next-generation interventions.💡
@cambridgefestival.bsky.social
Prof Jon Butterworth of University College London, described the level of cuts as "existentially threatening" to UK particle physics.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#PostdocRecruiting:
My group at the University of Texas at Austin is recruiting a Postdoc in virology and structural biology. Please see more details here:
utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...
Informal inquiries are encouraged, and see more lab info here: zunlongke-lab.org
Interesting read: The Great Horse #Flu of 1872 and How It Brought North America to a Screeching Halt open.substack.com/pub/phnights...
Transient RNA structures play a key role in the emergence of highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses! Great to see this collaboration with Mathis Funk, Mathilde Richard, Stephen Cusack, and others in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
"Our first application shortlisting in 2026 will take place in July, with decisions planned for December".
The purple prose gives them away.
On #InternationalWomensDay, we’re celebrating some of the women across @medcambridge.bsky.social who are advancing research, improving patient care, and shaping the future of healthcare.
Read along to find out more: buff.ly/5RArf1F
@vpd-hlri.bsky.social #CITIID #PACE
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