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Felix Streicher
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Postdoc @ Charité Berlin | arboviruses & innate immunity | Uni Heidelberg / Institut Pasteur Paris / BIF alumnus | 🇩🇪🇰🇪🇨🇴🇫🇷
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The IFIT2–IFIT3 antiviral complex targets short 5’ untranslated regions on viral mRNAs for translation inhibition

By Dustin Glasner, Matthew Daugherty & colleagues.

#microsky

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The IFIT2–IFIT3 antiviral complex targets short 5’ untranslated regions on viral mRNAs for translation inhibition - Nature Microbiology
Viruses generally have compact genomes, resulting in many viral mRNAs with short 5’ untranslated regions. An antiviral complex exploits this feature of viral mRNAs to selectively inhibit viral protein...
www.nature.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
🥳🎉Our brand-new review on species-specific differences in interferon response effectors and the resulting barriers to interspecies transmission of viruses is out, go read it!🥳🎉
Viral interferon antagonism shapes host tropism
Outbreaks of zoonotic viruses in human populations highlight the need to understand the molecular factors that influence viral host tropism and interspecies transmission. A virus’s host range is deter...
journals.plos.org
October 8, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Curious about how antibodies can target Plasmodium sporozoites?

Very happy to see this review out, it means a lot to me to finish my PhD research topic with a nice overview of what is known about how anti-CSP Abs neutralize the parasite in the mammalian host.
September 2, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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📣 I'm recruiting a postdoc researcher to join my team for a project on mosquito-specific viruses and host interactions. Peep the job description & how to apply below. Perfect for soon-to-be or recent PhD graduates in mosquito vector biology 🦟 or arbovirology 🦠
🗓️ Application deadline 31 August 2025
July 28, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Want to know which innate immunity gene is important for controlling tick-borne flavivirus replication?
Check out our latest preprint
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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A new research review examines how carrying dengue virus affects Aedes aegypti mosquitoes' life cycle and behavior and whether the virus manipulates its mosquito host—or if changes are byproducts of other factors.
Dengue Virus Effects on Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes: Genetic Manipulation or Byproduct?
A new research review examines how carrying dengue virus affects Aedes aegypti mosquitoes' life cycle and behavior and whether the virus manipulates its mosquito host—or if changes are byproducts of…
entomologytoday.org
January 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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The Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC) is seeking to recruit new group leaders to join the Virology Department.
The application deadline is March 15th, 2025
www.i2bc.paris-saclay.fr
www.i2bc.paris-saclay.fr/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/I2BC-Virology-call_2025.pdf
January 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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“One can never be alone enough when one writes… there can never be enough silence around one when one writes… even night is not night enough.”
—Kafka
January 2, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Working with collaborators in the Global South it upsets me how many pay expensive software license fees, or use insecure pirated versions, when free open-source alternatives are available. Below is a list of easy swaps. Please add to it and share! 👇
December 20, 2024 at 4:55 PM
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Couldn’t find a virology starter pack so here’s one to get the ball rolling. Repost/reply if you are a virologist so I can find and add you to the list!

go.bsky.app/SinqoJU
November 10, 2024 at 2:43 PM