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Post-Doc in Marco Binder lab @DKFZ Heidelberg. Host-pathogen interaction of Anelloviruses with special interest in nucleic acid sensing.

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I'll try to visit soon 🙂

07.03.2026 16:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That's so cool Karim! Congrats to you, Joe and the other authors 🙂 Hope you celebrate that appropriately at the next Friday apéro 🎉

07.03.2026 12:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Last year I would have gotten funded - will say a lot of ECRs this morning #MSCA

09.02.2026 08:35 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Data-Driven Virus Discovery with Virushunter and Virusgatherer https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.26.701714v1

28.01.2026 20:46 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Exciting opportunity to join the vibrant Montpellier scientific community!

02.02.2026 05:32 👍 7 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0

Tonic interferons defend against respiratory viruses in primary human lung organoid-derived air-liquid interface cultures https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.10.693424v1

11.12.2025 15:17 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Postdoctoral Position – Deep Learning models to predict phenotypes from genomics data (M/F) Assurez-vous que votre profil candidat soit correctement renseigné avant de postuler

🚀 Postdoc opportunity at IGMM : develop deep learning models to predict phenotypes from genomics data and push the boundaries of AI in genomics!
📌 More info & apply : emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

#Postdoc #Genomics #DeepLearning #AI #Research #IGMM #CNRS

09.12.2025 10:30 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Virus-induced APOBEC3 transmutagenesis in bladder cancer initiation A model for hit-and-run viral carcinogenesis in the bladder.

How long-term persistent virus infection could cause inflammatory-associated cancer in uninfected cells:

Polyomavirus BKPyV

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

04.12.2025 14:32 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

🧬 Inflammation et syndrome de Rett
Nouvelle actualité publiée sur @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
📎https://www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/nouvel-eclairage-sur-les-causes-de-linflammation-dans-le-syndrome-de-rett
👏 @nadinelaguette.bsky.social
#SyndromeDeRett #Recherche #CNRSBiologie

20.11.2025 12:13 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social Regulation of lipid metabolism is a primordial function of STING @igmm-montpel.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @nadinelaguette.bsky.social

19.11.2025 01:27 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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🌍Open call: Junior Group Leader positions!

Join a world-class biomedical research institute at the heart of the Vienna BioCenter, where curiosity drives discovery.

Lead your own lab, pursue bold ideas, and shape the future of science at the IMP: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...

10.11.2025 13:26 👍 95 🔁 84 💬 1 📌 7
Abstract submission

🦠 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

22.10.2025 07:34 👍 15 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 2

Excited to be co-organizing this @embo.org Workshop on #Pathogen #Immunity and #Signalling next June 8-12 2026 in Leiden! 🥳🥳🥳 #Savethedate

18.10.2025 17:05 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

EMBO has received a record number of applications for its postdoctoral fellowships this year, says Karin Dumstrei, head of the EMBO Fellowships Programme.

Read more:

18.10.2025 16:00 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

A lot of pressure on the different grant schemes, and pretty much independent of career stage.

17.10.2025 10:20 👍 27 🔁 21 💬 0 📌 0

🚀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

01.10.2025 13:38 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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The hepatitis E virus capsid protein ORF2 counteracts cell-intrinsic antiviral responses to enable persistent replication in cell culture Author summary Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is an important yet often underestimated pathogen. Depending on the genotype, HEV infections can progress to chronicity, but the underlying mechanisms remain poo...

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)

26.09.2025 21:09 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Viro3D: a comprehensive database of virus protein structure predictions | Molecular Systems Biology imageimageViro3D provides proteome-level, high confidence AI-protein structure predictions for >4,400 viruses, allowing mapping of form and function across the human and animal virosphere. Viro3D i...

Viro3D paper is out! We predicted 85,000 protein structures from human & animal viruses. 1/5 🧵

📑 Paper doi.org/10.1038/s443...
🔭 Explore virosphere viro3d.cvr.gla.ac.uk

26.09.2025 14:06 👍 56 🔁 24 💬 1 📌 3

Can totally recommend the IGMM as an environment and @damsgregoire-lab.bsky.social lab. Nice people, nice projects. And it's south France, what else do you want 😁

23.09.2025 12:54 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

hey bluesky 👋 visa hurdles mean I’m looking for opportunities outside the US. I’m a computational biologist (bacterial + phage genomics, postdoc in Koonin’s group @ NIH). I am interested in teaming up on funding apps. reach out if this resonates!

15.09.2025 17:26 👍 69 🔁 89 💬 1 📌 3

The number of proposals for MSCA postdoc increased by 64.6% this year while the budget decreased. This is bad especially knowing that last year already broke the records in terms of applications. Fingers crossed I am 1 out of 10... (Last year it would have been 1 out of 6...)

14.09.2025 09:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 receives record number of 17,058 proposals This year’s annual MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships call has attracted considerable interest from the research community with 17,058 proposals submitted.

record 17,058 Marie Curie proposals in 2025 vs. 10,360 in 2024!!! the reason is pretty obvious, but wow that is a huge jump marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...

13.09.2025 18:04 👍 39 🔁 23 💬 2 📌 11
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TRIM28 is a target for paramyxovirus V proteins Author summary Host recognition of viral nucleic acids is fundamental for stimulating antiviral immunity. To prevent aberrant immune activation, cells must precisely differentiate “non-self” from “sel...

'TRIM28 is a target for paramyxovirus V proteins'. Work led by Gauthier Lieber seeks to address whether host activation of endogenous retroelements contributes to antiviral defences. In support of this idea, he describes a viral mechanism that might limit this host response.
doi.org/10.1371/jour...

09.09.2025 08:46 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Vientovirus capsid protein mimics autoantigens and contributes to autoimmunity in Sjögren’s disease - Nature Microbiology Salivary virome profiling revealed distinct virome profiles in Sjögren’s disease and a role for Vientovirus in triggering autoimmunity through molecular mimicry.

Vientovirus capsid protein mimics autoantigens and contributes to autoimmunity in Sjögren’s disease @natmicrobiol.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

08.09.2025 20:09 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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To all friends and colleagues virologists

SAVE THE DATE for the next International Symposium on Single Stranded DNA viruses

Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil
June 15-19 2026

Stay put for more info soon when website goes on air !

26.08.2025 13:35 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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21.08.2025 11:57 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

🚨New paper alert from the Andrau lab! 🚨

Huge congratulations to @andraulab.bsky.social and collaborators 👏

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#transcription @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @biolum-montpellier.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social @natureportfolio.nature.com

23.07.2025 10:18 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

The current administration has more successfully destroyed US science and the scientific enterprise than the hypothetical nuclear weapons program in Iran.

24.06.2025 23:35 👍 2352 🔁 655 💬 20 📌 11
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Regulated localization of transposable element RNA during influenza A virus infection | EMBO reports imageimageInfluenza A virus infection increases host transposable element (TE) expression. This study provides evidence that some infection-induced TEs form double-stranded RNAs that accumulate in the...

Now in press: Marie Lork & our collaborators studied host transposable elements during influenza A virus infection. We found evidence that some produce dsRNA, but that these host dsRNAs are limited from reaching the cytosol by the viral NS1 protein. @emboreports.org
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

16.06.2025 10:32 👍 20 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1
A chart showing cancelled NIH grants

A chart showing cancelled NIH grants

“I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial.” Be that as it may, the NIH terminated that scientist's grant. Here's a huge survey of the 2,500 grants that NIH has killed or delayed...so far. Gift link: nyti.ms/43Jz1yJ

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