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Happy 134th birthday to humans knowing that viruses exist! OTD in 1892 Dmitri Ivanovsky presented his evidence of a tobacco mosaic disease caused by filterable agents (not bacteria!). Martinus Beijerinck confirmed this independently in 1898. And voila, virology is born!

A receptor-like kinase controls plasmodesmal transport of conserved 30K viral movement proteins through phosphorylation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02...

Heads up, Triangle residents — one of the locations is in Cary.

Today is the last day to submit an abstract to ASV 2026!

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🚨ABSTRACT DEADLINE FEBRUARY 2🚨
🚨TRAVEL AWARD DEADLINE FEBRUARY 9🚨

Share your virology research by submitting an abstract for ASV 2026 by 11:59pm Eastern on Monday 2/2/26

Need financial support? Trainees & teachers can apply for travel awards

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The scientific (bureaucratic) uncertainty over what constitutes gain of function research is going to stymie important research into pathogens, just as the US & Canada are poised for a dramatic resurgence of infectious diseases thanks to the ‘wisdom’ of non-scientists who have abandoned reason.

Thankful for a #Packers win on Thanksgiving 🦃 #LockedOnPackers

Bacterial wilt devastates crops worldwide, but what if we could disrupt the pathogen's ability to "sense" its host? Dr. Caitilyn Allen reveals research on RprR, a plant-responsive protein that controls Ralstonia virulence.

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#apswebinars #planthealth

A great day for this early career scientist! Exciting work on TSWV and thrips interactions. Congrats to Peyton LaBonte for defending her thesis! #virology

Grapevine Red Blotch Disease: A Threat to the Grape and Wine Industries Grapevine red blotch disease emerged as a major threat to the North American viticulture more than 25 years ago. Prior to the discovery of its causal agent, grapevine red blotch virus (GRBV), the dise...

Grapevine Red Blotch Disease: A Threat to the Grape and Wine Industries - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Lab Legends and Field Phantoms: The Tale of Virus-Resistant Plants Plant viruses present significant challenges to global agriculture, causing crop losses, threatening food security, and imposing economic burdens. Advances in biotechnology have revolutionized strateg...

Lab Legends and Field Phantoms: The Tale of Virus-Resistant Plants - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Antiviral Double-Stranded RNA Sensing Immunity in Plants Plant viruses, which can cause devastating plant diseases, are obligate intracellular pathogens that replicate their genomes inside cells and spread infection by cell-to-cell movement through cell wal...

Antiviral Double-Stranded RNA Sensing Immunity in Plants - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Black in Microbiology Week 2025. Black Microbiologists Association. Central yellow box with patterned design displays the word “HARMONY” in bold black letters. Below, an acrostic poem defines each letter: H – Hope, A – Alliance, R – Resilience, M – Mutual Support, O – Optimism, N – Nurturing, Y – Yielding Progress.

In 2 days we celebrate #BlackInMicro Week, Oct 14-16. This year’s theme, HARMONY, honors collaboration, resilience & shared experiences. Join us to amplify Black scientists, grow careers & community. RSVP: linktr.ee/BlackInMicro. Support: tinyurl.com/GiveBiM (links in bio)

💉 The most recent Annual Review of Virology is now online. Most read article so far is "In Transition: How Influenza Virus Switches from Transcription to Genome Replication" by Tao Deng et al. arevie.ws/42kxUFU

For full TOC: arevie.ws/3IDG4Cz

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Virologists Can Help Make America Healthy Again | Annual Reviews - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

ASV Fall Council is in full swing! Stay tuned for updates in the ASV President's Newsletter.

Postdocs on H1B visas make America great. 🗽🌱🦠

Yes, a terrible move. And, 100k to get one!

Movie star and visionary Robert Redford has died at age 89 A movie star to his core, Robert Redford has died after a visionary career in cinema, including founding the Sundance Institute that transformed the market for independent films.

A movie star to his core, Robert Redford has died after a visionary career in cinema, including founding the Sundance Institute that transformed the market for independent films.

Endogenous viral elements in termite genomes reveal extensive diversity of deltaviruses and provide insights into their origins Barreat et al. describe the discovery of deltavirus genomic fossils (ẟEVEs) in multiple species of termites. The wide expression of ẟEVEs in termites and a host gene fusion indicate that some ẟEVEs ma...

Termite genomes shed light on the enigmatic deltaviruses, their ancient origins, and an intriguing example of co-option of viral genes by a host.

www.cell.com/cell-reports...

The goal of a PhD is not to learn some facts or read a few papers or learn a bunch of techniques. The goal of a PhD is to learn independence, problem solving, how to finish things you start, resilience, & gain the ability to adapt & think creatively. Learning these things is hard.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has distributed federal funds to both PBS and NPR for decades, announced Friday that it's shutting down.

The news comes after President Donald Trump recently clawed back more than a billion dollars of funding for public broadcasting.

Any corn planthoppers?

Metabolic homeostasis favors tolerance to persistent viral infection in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes The mosquito Aedes aegypti harbors a wide range of persistent viral infections, including both medically important arboviruses and insect-specific viruses (ISVs). However, the mechanisms underpinning ...

How can mosquitoes tolerate viral infections?

In our latest preprint we show that mosquitoes that can regulate their metabolism after infection can tolerate viral infections better.

Thanks to all the authors for all your ideas and contributions

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Preprint on tandem split-GFP influenza viruses is now up! We strung 7 copies of GFP11 together to make a bright virus with minimal fitness defects. Fluorescence requires GFP1-10 from cells, so we made a few that are relevant for flu. See this fluorescent love story: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

He will be missed. He made our progress on negative strand viruses possible!