Leo Liu
@leoliu88.bsky.social
Assist Prof @ McGill studying viruses and immunity. “Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas - Marie Curie”. All views are my own.
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We’re recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow for a CIHR-funded project on coronavirus proteases & antiviral innate immunity. If you love virology, innate immunity & advanced technologies, this is for you.
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#virology #postdoc #ScienceJobs
Please RT & share! 🙌
#virology #postdoc #ScienceJobs
November 20, 2025 at 4:50 AM
We’re recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow for a CIHR-funded project on coronavirus proteases & antiviral innate immunity. If you love virology, innate immunity & advanced technologies, this is for you.
Please RT & share! 🙌
#virology #postdoc #ScienceJobs
Please RT & share! 🙌
#virology #postdoc #ScienceJobs
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SNAP-tag is a widespread tool for labelling protein for bioimaging. An article published in Nature Chemical Biology presents SNAP-tag2 with increased labelling kinetics and brightness, which translates into a better performance in live-cell super-resolution imaging. go.nature.com/46fMIZd 🧪
July 20, 2025 at 1:03 AM
SNAP-tag is a widespread tool for labelling protein for bioimaging. An article published in Nature Chemical Biology presents SNAP-tag2 with increased labelling kinetics and brightness, which translates into a better performance in live-cell super-resolution imaging. go.nature.com/46fMIZd 🧪
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#NewResearch out now!
Amino acid changes in two viral proteins drive attenuation of the yellow fever 17D vaccine
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Amino acid changes in two viral proteins drive attenuation of the yellow fever 17D vaccine
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Amino acid changes in two viral proteins drive attenuation of the yellow fever 17D vaccine - Nature Microbiology
Amino acid changes in the envelope and non-structural 2A protein attenuate the virulent yellow fever virus (YFV) and enhance host antiviral responses upon infection in vivo. These traits explain the p...
www.nature.com
July 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
#NewResearch out now!
Amino acid changes in two viral proteins drive attenuation of the yellow fever 17D vaccine
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Amino acid changes in two viral proteins drive attenuation of the yellow fever 17D vaccine
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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📅 SAVE THE DATE 📅
CSV 2026 is less than a year away! Join us in Guelph on May 31st -June 4th to learn about all the virology research happening across the country. You don't want to miss out. #CSV2026 #lovevirology #virologyftw
CSV 2026 is less than a year away! Join us in Guelph on May 31st -June 4th to learn about all the virology research happening across the country. You don't want to miss out. #CSV2026 #lovevirology #virologyftw
July 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
📅 SAVE THE DATE 📅
CSV 2026 is less than a year away! Join us in Guelph on May 31st -June 4th to learn about all the virology research happening across the country. You don't want to miss out. #CSV2026 #lovevirology #virologyftw
CSV 2026 is less than a year away! Join us in Guelph on May 31st -June 4th to learn about all the virology research happening across the country. You don't want to miss out. #CSV2026 #lovevirology #virologyftw
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The CSV is seeking new members to join our Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Committee, launching its next term in September 2025! We welcome and prioritize applicants from equity-deserving groups and those with lived EDI experience. The deadline to apply is June 25, 2025- don't miss out!
May 26, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The CSV is seeking new members to join our Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Committee, launching its next term in September 2025! We welcome and prioritize applicants from equity-deserving groups and those with lived EDI experience. The deadline to apply is June 25, 2025- don't miss out!
Fed up with chasing shrinking grants and tailoring your science to fit political whims? Come join our vibrant department @mcgill-research.bsky.social where curiosity still drives discovery. mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill_C…
https://mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill_C…
April 25, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Fed up with chasing shrinking grants and tailoring your science to fit political whims? Come join our vibrant department @mcgill-research.bsky.social where curiosity still drives discovery. mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill_C…
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Come join us at @mcgill.ca as an assistant professor in virus-host interactions! Please share widely.
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Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Microbiology & Immunology, (C2-240724)
Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...
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April 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Come join us at @mcgill.ca as an assistant professor in virus-host interactions! Please share widely.
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Infection with highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 in dairy cows leads to humoral immunity that protects them from infection through rechallenge via the intra-mammary route, according to a paper in Nature Microbiology. #medsky 🧪
Dairy cows develop protective immunity against reinfection with bovine H5N1 influenza virus - Nature Microbiology
Infection with highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 in dairy cows leads to humoral immunity that protects them from infection through rechallenge via the intra-mammary route.
go.nature.com
April 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Infection with highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 in dairy cows leads to humoral immunity that protects them from infection through rechallenge via the intra-mammary route, according to a paper in Nature Microbiology. #medsky 🧪
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BREAKING🔔 The 51st paper from G2P-Japan🇯🇵 is out at Vaccine. We evaluated the antiviral activity of neutralizing antibodies induced by SARS-CoV-2 JN.1 recombinant protein vaccine against SARS-CoV-2. Please repost🔥 1/
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Antiviral humoral immunity against SARS-CoV-2 omicron JN.1 subvariants induced by JN.1 recombinant protein vaccine
www.sciencedirect.com
April 17, 2025 at 3:59 AM
BREAKING🔔 The 51st paper from G2P-Japan🇯🇵 is out at Vaccine. We evaluated the antiviral activity of neutralizing antibodies induced by SARS-CoV-2 JN.1 recombinant protein vaccine against SARS-CoV-2. Please repost🔥 1/
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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"Many scientists know from the start that they want to be academic researchers. But for others the path unfolds gradually, with spurts of doubt and uncertainty along the way. In a way, that’s fitting." #ScienceWorkingLife scim.ag/43Ph9Ei
April 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"Many scientists know from the start that they want to be academic researchers. But for others the path unfolds gradually, with spurts of doubt and uncertainty along the way. In a way, that’s fitting." #ScienceWorkingLife scim.ag/43Ph9Ei
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Our department is looking to hire an Associate/Full Professor in the field of Virology. Please share and apply if you are intersted. Also happy to answer any questions
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09552
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09552
Associate/ Full Professor of Virology in Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ap.uci.edu
April 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Our department is looking to hire an Associate/Full Professor in the field of Virology. Please share and apply if you are intersted. Also happy to answer any questions
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09552
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09552
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Harnessing antibodies found in patients with lupus, researchers test a new #cancer therapy that turns autoimmune responses against tumor cells in mice, suggesting similar approaches could be integrated into immunotherapy regimens.
Learn more in #ScienceSignaling: scim.ag/3FXZQGX
Learn more in #ScienceSignaling: scim.ag/3FXZQGX
A lupus-derived autoantibody that binds to intracellular RNA activates cGAS-mediated tumor immunity and can deliver RNA into cells
Delivery of autoimmune disease–associated antibodies activates the immune system to fight glioblastomas.
scim.ag
March 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Harnessing antibodies found in patients with lupus, researchers test a new #cancer therapy that turns autoimmune responses against tumor cells in mice, suggesting similar approaches could be integrated into immunotherapy regimens.
Learn more in #ScienceSignaling: scim.ag/3FXZQGX
Learn more in #ScienceSignaling: scim.ag/3FXZQGX
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Proud of this work, led by the amazing Jeannette Tenthorey (now Assistant Professor at UCSF), demonstrating the adaptive power of single indel mutations in host-virus arms races, but a little sad that this is the coda to her amazing postdoc in the Malik & Emerman labs.
www.cell.com/cell-genomic...
www.cell.com/cell-genomic...
Indels allow antiviral proteins to evolve functional novelty inaccessible by missense mutations
Tenthorey et al. compare the effects of missense and indel mutations on the acquisition
of functional novelty by the rapidly evolving antiviral protein TRIM5α. They find
that single indel mutations al...
www.cell.com
March 27, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Proud of this work, led by the amazing Jeannette Tenthorey (now Assistant Professor at UCSF), demonstrating the adaptive power of single indel mutations in host-virus arms races, but a little sad that this is the coda to her amazing postdoc in the Malik & Emerman labs.
www.cell.com/cell-genomic...
www.cell.com/cell-genomic...
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Co-Chairs, Michael Gale, Jr. and @ramlabuw.bsky.social invite abstract submissions for Cytokines2025. Topics include adaptive immunity, cytokine signaling, interferon stimulated genes, structure- function, and more. Submit: seattle.cytokinesociety.org/call-for-abs...
Deadline is May 18, 2025.
Deadline is May 18, 2025.
March 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Co-Chairs, Michael Gale, Jr. and @ramlabuw.bsky.social invite abstract submissions for Cytokines2025. Topics include adaptive immunity, cytokine signaling, interferon stimulated genes, structure- function, and more. Submit: seattle.cytokinesociety.org/call-for-abs...
Deadline is May 18, 2025.
Deadline is May 18, 2025.
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A little late to the party (I was out last week), but so happy to promote this paper and its animated cover in @science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
March 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
A little late to the party (I was out last week), but so happy to promote this paper and its animated cover in @science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Excited to share @joelrc.bsky.social 's new paper examining the factors underlying cell-to-cell heterogeneity in interferon induction during flu infection:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Intrinsic OASL expression licenses interferon induction during influenza A virus infection
Effective control of viral infection requires rapid induction of the innate immune response, especially the type I and type III interferon (IFN) systems. Despite the critical role of IFN induction in ...
www.biorxiv.org
March 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Excited to share @joelrc.bsky.social 's new paper examining the factors underlying cell-to-cell heterogeneity in interferon induction during flu infection:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Huge congrats to our very own Dan Boghici for winning first prize in the #D2RSymposium2025 poster competition!
March 14, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Huge congrats to our very own Dan Boghici for winning first prize in the #D2RSymposium2025 poster competition!
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🌟 The D2R Research Symposium 2025 is officially underway!
Today & tomorrow we will post highlights of the event including inspiring talks, innovative research and poster presentations about #RNAtherapeutics. 💡
Follow #D2RSymposium2025 for updates.
mcgill.ca/dna-to-rna/c...
Today & tomorrow we will post highlights of the event including inspiring talks, innovative research and poster presentations about #RNAtherapeutics. 💡
Follow #D2RSymposium2025 for updates.
mcgill.ca/dna-to-rna/c...
March 13, 2025 at 2:10 PM
🌟 The D2R Research Symposium 2025 is officially underway!
Today & tomorrow we will post highlights of the event including inspiring talks, innovative research and poster presentations about #RNAtherapeutics. 💡
Follow #D2RSymposium2025 for updates.
mcgill.ca/dna-to-rna/c...
Today & tomorrow we will post highlights of the event including inspiring talks, innovative research and poster presentations about #RNAtherapeutics. 💡
Follow #D2RSymposium2025 for updates.
mcgill.ca/dna-to-rna/c...
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So honored to be introduced in a news feature article in Nature @nature.com with a series of COVID gangsters😎!!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Four ways COVID changed virology: lessons from the most sequenced virus of all time
After 150,000 articles and 17 million genome sequences, what has science taught us about SARS-CoV-2?
www.nature.com
March 13, 2025 at 2:12 AM
So honored to be introduced in a news feature article in Nature @nature.com with a series of COVID gangsters😎!!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Academia’s often misguided view is that resilience is the ability to adapt and overcome challenges or adversity, but such an attitude can mask a toxic lab culture, say some researchers.
https://go.nature.com/4kv5ro4
https://go.nature.com/4kv5ro4
‘I was told to toughen up’: is academia getting resilience all wrong?
Being repeatedly told to bounce back and develop a thicker skin can mask a toxic lab culture.
go.nature.com
March 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Academia’s often misguided view is that resilience is the ability to adapt and overcome challenges or adversity, but such an attitude can mask a toxic lab culture, say some researchers.
https://go.nature.com/4kv5ro4
https://go.nature.com/4kv5ro4
