Viejo-Borbolla Lab
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Back at home after two days of great science in the 18 Mini Herpesvirus Workshop and 1st and only HHV-65 Symposium, celebrating Harmut Hengel’s birthday. @lucasmendesm.bsky.social and @ninaplueckebaum.bsky.social presented exciting results showing how herpesviruses modulate the immune response
October 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Back at home after two days of great science in the 18 Mini Herpesvirus Workshop and 1st and only HHV-65 Symposium, celebrating Harmut Hengel’s birthday. @lucasmendesm.bsky.social and @ninaplueckebaum.bsky.social presented exciting results showing how herpesviruses modulate the immune response
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Congratulations to the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine winners Drs. Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, & Shimon Sakaguchi for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.
View their related research published in #CellPress journals: spkl.io/63325AVK2R
View their related research published in #CellPress journals: spkl.io/63325AVK2R
October 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Congratulations to the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine winners Drs. Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, & Shimon Sakaguchi for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.
View their related research published in #CellPress journals: spkl.io/63325AVK2R
View their related research published in #CellPress journals: spkl.io/63325AVK2R
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Michel DeGraff, a tenured professor of linguistics at MIT, discusses how his proposal to teach a class on language & decolonization in Haiti, Israel, and Palestine was denied. He faced significant repercussions: he was removed from his department, had a pay raise withheld, and his salary frozen.
October 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Michel DeGraff, a tenured professor of linguistics at MIT, discusses how his proposal to teach a class on language & decolonization in Haiti, Israel, and Palestine was denied. He faced significant repercussions: he was removed from his department, had a pay raise withheld, and his salary frozen.
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New in @natbiotech.nature.com: a team led by scientists at MSK and University of Toronto have developed a new platform to facilitate the study of RNA-biding proteins (RBPs) across hundreds of species of plants, insects, and animals.
A resource of RNA-binding protein motifs across eukaryotes reveals evolutionary dynamics and gene-regulatory function - Nature Biotechnology
RNA-binding motifs in eukaryotic proteins are presented in a comprehensive resource.
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July 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
New in @natbiotech.nature.com: a team led by scientists at MSK and University of Toronto have developed a new platform to facilitate the study of RNA-biding proteins (RBPs) across hundreds of species of plants, insects, and animals.
In the last day of the #IHW2025 Josi Schenk funded by @resist-cluster.bsky.social gave a great explanation on how VZV modulates One Carbon metabolism in epithelial cells. Inhibition of this pathway blocked VZV, HSV-1 and HSV-2 infection, providing novel ways to target these viruses
August 3, 2025 at 7:12 AM
In the last day of the #IHW2025 Josi Schenk funded by @resist-cluster.bsky.social gave a great explanation on how VZV modulates One Carbon metabolism in epithelial cells. Inhibition of this pathway blocked VZV, HSV-1 and HSV-2 infection, providing novel ways to target these viruses
Nina Plückebaum gave a great talk at the #IHW2025 showing the results of a bindings screen performed with the RL11 protein family of #human_cytomegalovirus and 80% of all human single transmembrane proteins revealing a novel viral strategy to modulate natural killer cell activity
July 29, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Nina Plückebaum gave a great talk at the #IHW2025 showing the results of a bindings screen performed with the RL11 protein family of #human_cytomegalovirus and 80% of all human single transmembrane proteins revealing a novel viral strategy to modulate natural killer cell activity
Today there were many interesting talks at #IHW2025, including one from Nadine Brückner who gave a great talk in the VZV Satellite Workshop exploring how VZV is repressed during infection of neuron-like cells.
July 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Today there were many interesting talks at #IHW2025, including one from Nadine Brückner who gave a great talk in the VZV Satellite Workshop exploring how VZV is repressed during infection of neuron-like cells.
Last Sunday we went hiking in the Deister, nice hills close to Hannover. It was a very nice day despite the heat.
June 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Last Sunday we went hiking in the Deister, nice hills close to Hannover. It was a very nice day despite the heat.
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Don't forget 📆 Abstract deadline for poster or oral presentations is June 18. Please repost to your network to spread the word! More info or register at seattle.cytokinesociety.org
June 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Don't forget 📆 Abstract deadline for poster or oral presentations is June 18. Please repost to your network to spread the word! More info or register at seattle.cytokinesociety.org
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It was a great experience to participate and present our data in the last GRC viruses and cells conference organized by @sesmalab.bsky.social. Looking forward to more exciting science and collaborations!
May 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
It was a great experience to participate and present our data in the last GRC viruses and cells conference organized by @sesmalab.bsky.social. Looking forward to more exciting science and collaborations!
Wonderful news! This will allow @resist-cluster.bsky.social to better understand why some individuals are highly susceptible to infectious diseases while others aren’t. Thanks to everyone involved in the application and evaluation process!
Großer Erfolg: RESIST ist bei der Exzellenzstrategie von Bund und Ländern erfolgreich gewesen und wird auch nach der ersten Förderperiode (2019 bis 2025) für weitere sieben Jahre unterstützt !!! 😀🎉🍾🥂🥳 @dfg.de
www.resist-cluster.de/en/millions-...
www.resist-cluster.de/en/millions-...
Millions in funding for RESIST
Major success: RESIST has been successful in the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments and will continue to receive funding for a further seven years after the first funding ...
www.resist-cluster.de
May 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Wonderful news! This will allow @resist-cluster.bsky.social to better understand why some individuals are highly susceptible to infectious diseases while others aren’t. Thanks to everyone involved in the application and evaluation process!
Don’t miss the @resist-cluster.bsky.social seminar by @richstanton.bsky.social this coming Thursday!
Come to the RESIST seminar lecture by Prof. Richard Stanton on 15 May at 1 pm in seminar room Q at the MHH! The title of the lecture is: "Overcoming viral manipulation and evasion of cellular immunity". We offer snacks or pizza before the seminar at 12.40 PM!
www.resist-cluster.de/en/veranstal...
www.resist-cluster.de/en/veranstal...
RESIST Seminar guest lecture by Prof. Stanton
Exciting topics, interestingly presented: Every first and third Thursday (except during school holidays), RESIST scientists or top-class researchers from external institutions present their topics at ...
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May 13, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Don’t miss the @resist-cluster.bsky.social seminar by @richstanton.bsky.social this coming Thursday!
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We are very much looking forward to the two lectures on Wednesday (!), 14 May from 12.30 pm by Prof. Donna Neumann and Prof. Robert Kaletja, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Come in large numbers to lecture hall Q at the MHH! We will offer snacks at 12.00 PM
www.resist-cluster.de/en/veranstal...
www.resist-cluster.de/en/veranstal...
RESIST Seminar guest lectures by Prof. Neumann and Prof. Kaletja
Exciting topics, interestingly presented: Every first and third Thursday (except during school holidays), RESIST scientists or top-class researchers from external institutions present their topics at ...
www.resist-cluster.de
May 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM
We are very much looking forward to the two lectures on Wednesday (!), 14 May from 12.30 pm by Prof. Donna Neumann and Prof. Robert Kaletja, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Come in large numbers to lecture hall Q at the MHH! We will offer snacks at 12.00 PM
www.resist-cluster.de/en/veranstal...
www.resist-cluster.de/en/veranstal...
Thanks @beatesodeiklab.bsky.social for your kind words. It was a great experience talking about SPR in the “How to…” seminar series organized by the ACHIEVE Academy of the @gesvirologie.bsky.social. I especially enjoyed the discussion part of the event
Amazing technique to study PPIs in virus-host interactions. One of its masters is
@viejoborbolla.bsky.social
@viejoborbolla.bsky.social
We are pleased to invite you to our next "How to..." seminar on measuring protein-protein interactions using Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) by Prof. Abel Viejo-Borbolla, Hannover Medical School.
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May 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Thanks @beatesodeiklab.bsky.social for your kind words. It was a great experience talking about SPR in the “How to…” seminar series organized by the ACHIEVE Academy of the @gesvirologie.bsky.social. I especially enjoyed the discussion part of the event
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"This is my home - I really love my country. But a lot of my mentors have been telling me to get out, right now"
75% of US scientists who answered our poll are considering relocating. Read the full story: https://go.nature.com/3QS4TLC
75% of US scientists who answered our poll are considering relocating. Read the full story: https://go.nature.com/3QS4TLC
March 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
"This is my home - I really love my country. But a lot of my mentors have been telling me to get out, right now"
75% of US scientists who answered our poll are considering relocating. Read the full story: https://go.nature.com/3QS4TLC
75% of US scientists who answered our poll are considering relocating. Read the full story: https://go.nature.com/3QS4TLC
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An immigration crackdown in the United States is rattling the global research community, with high-profile detentions and deportations of academics stoking fears even for travellers with valid entry documents.
https://go.nature.com/3FG63rf
https://go.nature.com/3FG63rf
‘Anxiety is palpable’: detention of researchers at US border spurs travel worries
Nature - Several high-profile incidents in the past month have scientists on edge.
go.nature.com
March 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
An immigration crackdown in the United States is rattling the global research community, with high-profile detentions and deportations of academics stoking fears even for travellers with valid entry documents.
https://go.nature.com/3FG63rf
https://go.nature.com/3FG63rf
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'Among those NIH-funded projects are more than 100 clinical trials that now may be forced to halt abruptly, agency officials told me. And those officials expect further orders to cancel hundreds more.'
The NIH’s Most Reckless Cuts Yet
Ending clinical trials with no warning can put patients at risk.
www.theatlantic.com
March 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
'Among those NIH-funded projects are more than 100 clinical trials that now may be forced to halt abruptly, agency officials told me. And those officials expect further orders to cancel hundreds more.'
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🧪 A paralysed man can stand on his own after receiving an injection of neural stem cells to treat his spinal cord injury
https://go.nature.com/4jaZ3RB
https://go.nature.com/4jaZ3RB
Paralysed man stands again after receiving ‘reprogrammed’ stem cells
Nature - Another man also regained some movement, but two others experienced minimal improvement.
go.nature.com
March 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
🧪 A paralysed man can stand on his own after receiving an injection of neural stem cells to treat his spinal cord injury
https://go.nature.com/4jaZ3RB
https://go.nature.com/4jaZ3RB
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Hundreds of international students have just received an email telling them their visas have been revoked.
The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hun...
The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hun...
March 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Hundreds of international students have just received an email telling them their visas have been revoked.
The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hun...
The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hun...
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At least 95% measles vaccine coverage is needed in all communities to prevent #measles and stop outbreaks.
The only way to prevent measles? Two doses of measles vaccine.
Let’s close the gap and keep measles away!
The only way to prevent measles? Two doses of measles vaccine.
Let’s close the gap and keep measles away!
March 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
At least 95% measles vaccine coverage is needed in all communities to prevent #measles and stop outbreaks.
The only way to prevent measles? Two doses of measles vaccine.
Let’s close the gap and keep measles away!
The only way to prevent measles? Two doses of measles vaccine.
Let’s close the gap and keep measles away!
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Terrible news today of a powerful Myanmar earthquake that shook communities across Southeast Asia.
Our staff working in Myanmar and Thailand are safe and accounted for.
Swift and unhindered access to the affected areas is critical. More here: www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/msf-r...
Our staff working in Myanmar and Thailand are safe and accounted for.
Swift and unhindered access to the affected areas is critical. More here: www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/msf-r...
March 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Terrible news today of a powerful Myanmar earthquake that shook communities across Southeast Asia.
Our staff working in Myanmar and Thailand are safe and accounted for.
Swift and unhindered access to the affected areas is critical. More here: www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/msf-r...
Our staff working in Myanmar and Thailand are safe and accounted for.
Swift and unhindered access to the affected areas is critical. More here: www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/msf-r...
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No food or supplies have been allowed into Gaza in over three weeks
Hunger looms again in Gaza as WFP food stocks begin to run out | World Food Programme
GAZA, Palestine – Hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza are again at risk of severe hunger and malnutrition as humanitarian food stocks in the Strip dwindle and borders remain closed to aid. Meanwhi...
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March 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
No food or supplies have been allowed into Gaza in over three weeks