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🦠 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
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
Abstract submission
virology-meeting.de
October 22, 2025 at 7:34 AM
🦠 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
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
This is important and needs to be shared everywhere. American Scientific Associations working in the field of Infection and Immunity have said that enough is enough and are calling for RFK Jr. Resignation:
www.idsociety.org/news--public...
This is an act of civil courage that I strongly support.🧪
www.idsociety.org/news--public...
This is an act of civil courage that I strongly support.🧪
Joint statement calling for Secretary Kennedy resignation
www.idsociety.org
September 4, 2025 at 7:44 AM
This is important and needs to be shared everywhere. American Scientific Associations working in the field of Infection and Immunity have said that enough is enough and are calling for RFK Jr. Resignation:
www.idsociety.org/news--public...
This is an act of civil courage that I strongly support.🧪
www.idsociety.org/news--public...
This is an act of civil courage that I strongly support.🧪
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Governor Jared Polis says on a reddit AMA that Colorado will fix it so that people can access COVID vaccines without a prescription within the next few days.
August 31, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Governor Jared Polis says on a reddit AMA that Colorado will fix it so that people can access COVID vaccines without a prescription within the next few days.
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Source:
State health department issues COVID-19 vaccine health order
www.nmhealth.org
August 31, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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This is so sad, because avoidable. We know much more now than 45 years ago. Vaccine technologies and infection tracing are drastically improved.
Yet, fight against infections has become a partisan and ideological issue, slowing real-world deployment of medical knowledge. Politics is failing us.
Yet, fight against infections has become a partisan and ideological issue, slowing real-world deployment of medical knowledge. Politics is failing us.
Would never ever be possible today and I am quite pessimistic that we will eradicate another human disease in the years (decades?) to come.
#ThrowbackThursday: In 1980 the 🌍🌎🌏 was declared #smallpox free, thanks to mass vaccination efforts.
Smallpox was an acute contagious disease caused by the variola virus. It was one of the most devastating diseases known to humanity. #VaccinesWork
Smallpox was an acute contagious disease caused by the variola virus. It was one of the most devastating diseases known to humanity. #VaccinesWork
August 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
This is so sad, because avoidable. We know much more now than 45 years ago. Vaccine technologies and infection tracing are drastically improved.
Yet, fight against infections has become a partisan and ideological issue, slowing real-world deployment of medical knowledge. Politics is failing us.
Yet, fight against infections has become a partisan and ideological issue, slowing real-world deployment of medical knowledge. Politics is failing us.
I've been elected as speaker of the Working Group on #Vaccines of the German #Immunological Society (@dgfi-org.bsky.social).
I thank all members who voted & look forward to the upcoming mandate. Jan 14-16 '26, is our next #Vaccine #Workshop at @helmholtzhzi.bsky.social in Braunschweig. Stay tuned! 🧪
I thank all members who voted & look forward to the upcoming mandate. Jan 14-16 '26, is our next #Vaccine #Workshop at @helmholtzhzi.bsky.social in Braunschweig. Stay tuned! 🧪
August 28, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I've been elected as speaker of the Working Group on #Vaccines of the German #Immunological Society (@dgfi-org.bsky.social).
I thank all members who voted & look forward to the upcoming mandate. Jan 14-16 '26, is our next #Vaccine #Workshop at @helmholtzhzi.bsky.social in Braunschweig. Stay tuned! 🧪
I thank all members who voted & look forward to the upcoming mandate. Jan 14-16 '26, is our next #Vaccine #Workshop at @helmholtzhzi.bsky.social in Braunschweig. Stay tuned! 🧪
Interesting take. It rings a bell with me. Antivaxers refusing vaccines is not the fault of imperfect communication by scientists.
Antivaxer groups have agency and thus responsibility for the growth in vaccine hesitancy. This is not just scientists that fail to reach impossible standards of proof.🧪
Antivaxer groups have agency and thus responsibility for the growth in vaccine hesitancy. This is not just scientists that fail to reach impossible standards of proof.🧪
I really enjoyed this @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social pod about Covid & MAHA, but one thing it repeatedly revealed is a habit of liberals that drives me crazy. A short 🧵.
MAHA Is a Bad Answer to a Good Question
Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 08/22/2025 · 1h 22m
podcasts.apple.com
August 25, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Interesting take. It rings a bell with me. Antivaxers refusing vaccines is not the fault of imperfect communication by scientists.
Antivaxer groups have agency and thus responsibility for the growth in vaccine hesitancy. This is not just scientists that fail to reach impossible standards of proof.🧪
Antivaxer groups have agency and thus responsibility for the growth in vaccine hesitancy. This is not just scientists that fail to reach impossible standards of proof.🧪
I was asked by the international office of Deutsche Welle for a comment of the funding cuts for mRNA vaccine development (linke below).
My lab is developing a vaccine technology that competes with the mRNA one, and I have no personal incentives to advocate for it. 1/2 🧪
www.dw.com/en/why-us-bu...
My lab is developing a vaccine technology that competes with the mRNA one, and I have no personal incentives to advocate for it. 1/2 🧪
www.dw.com/en/why-us-bu...
Why US budget cuts could derail future mRNA vaccine progress – DW – 08/14/2025
US Government cuts to mRNA vaccine research could set back technological advances and reduce access to therapies, while raising their costs.
www.dw.com
August 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I was asked by the international office of Deutsche Welle for a comment of the funding cuts for mRNA vaccine development (linke below).
My lab is developing a vaccine technology that competes with the mRNA one, and I have no personal incentives to advocate for it. 1/2 🧪
www.dw.com/en/why-us-bu...
My lab is developing a vaccine technology that competes with the mRNA one, and I have no personal incentives to advocate for it. 1/2 🧪
www.dw.com/en/why-us-bu...
I am at the International #Herpesvirus Workshop (IHW) in Berlin, where the cream of the #herpes science crop gathers this year to share data and ideas (hopefully, not herpes #viruses). I look forward to the talks and may post under #IHW some thoughts on the most interesting talks by my colleagues.🧪
July 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I am at the International #Herpesvirus Workshop (IHW) in Berlin, where the cream of the #herpes science crop gathers this year to share data and ideas (hopefully, not herpes #viruses). I look forward to the talks and may post under #IHW some thoughts on the most interesting talks by my colleagues.🧪
Paul Offit has a detailed takedown on the new misguided #vaccine policies of RFK Jr.
pauloffit.substack.com/p/rfk-jrs-cr...
In brief, it is a combination of arrogance with willful ignorance of scientific #evidence. An entire change in policies is justified by a single outlier paper from 1980. 1/2 🧪
pauloffit.substack.com/p/rfk-jrs-cr...
In brief, it is a combination of arrogance with willful ignorance of scientific #evidence. An entire change in policies is justified by a single outlier paper from 1980. 1/2 🧪
RFK Jr.’s Cruelest Cut of All
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just eliminated U.S. vaccine funding for the world’s children. Why?
pauloffit.substack.com
July 26, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Paul Offit has a detailed takedown on the new misguided #vaccine policies of RFK Jr.
pauloffit.substack.com/p/rfk-jrs-cr...
In brief, it is a combination of arrogance with willful ignorance of scientific #evidence. An entire change in policies is justified by a single outlier paper from 1980. 1/2 🧪
pauloffit.substack.com/p/rfk-jrs-cr...
In brief, it is a combination of arrogance with willful ignorance of scientific #evidence. An entire change in policies is justified by a single outlier paper from 1980. 1/2 🧪
Filter the microplastic from your blood through a plastic filter! What could possibly go wrong?
🧪 “no published scientific evidence that microplastics can be effectively filtered from human blood…claims that dialysis or other treatments can remove them should be viewed with scepticism, especially when the filtration systems themselves are made of plastic.” theconversation.com/orlando-bloo...
Orlando Bloom tried to ‘clean’ his blood to get rid of microplastics – here’s what the science says
Microplastics in your blood? Orlando Bloom thinks so. Here’s what the science says about detox, dialysis and whether “cleaning” your blood really works.
theconversation.com
July 25, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Filter the microplastic from your blood through a plastic filter! What could possibly go wrong?
This is important - there is vaccine derived polio in German sewage water. Please share in your networks these information for MDs and parents (only in German, sorry).
bsky.app/profile/rki....
bsky.app/profile/rki....
In den vergangenen Wochen wurden in Abwasserproben erneut #Polioviren nachgewiesen, die vom Schluckimpfstoff abgeleitet sind.
☑️ Wo Viren nachgewiesen wurden
☑️ Wer erkranken kann
☑️ Warum #Impfschutz wichtig ist
☑️ Was Ärztinnen, Ärzte und Eltern wissen sollten
Details im #EpidBull
🔗 rki.de/epidbull
☑️ Wo Viren nachgewiesen wurden
☑️ Wer erkranken kann
☑️ Warum #Impfschutz wichtig ist
☑️ Was Ärztinnen, Ärzte und Eltern wissen sollten
Details im #EpidBull
🔗 rki.de/epidbull
July 14, 2025 at 12:34 PM
This is important - there is vaccine derived polio in German sewage water. Please share in your networks these information for MDs and parents (only in German, sorry).
bsky.app/profile/rki....
bsky.app/profile/rki....
We started the Cres conference with a great talk by Tony Hunter, spanning his work over 5+ decades, from early identification of protein kinases as drivers of cell transformation and cancer to his recent work on PIN1 and cholesterol biosynthesis in bladder cancer pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39808064/
July 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
We started the Cres conference with a great talk by Tony Hunter, spanning his work over 5+ decades, from early identification of protein kinases as drivers of cell transformation and cancer to his recent work on PIN1 and cholesterol biosynthesis in bladder cancer pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39808064/
I am attending the Frontiers in Drug Discovery workshop on the beautiful island of Cres, Croatia in the next few days. Even more beautiful is the lineup of speakers, with big names in cell and molecular biology, immunology and biochemistry. Kudos to @idikic.bsky.social, I. Stagljar and T. Lenac 1/2
July 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I am attending the Frontiers in Drug Discovery workshop on the beautiful island of Cres, Croatia in the next few days. Even more beautiful is the lineup of speakers, with big names in cell and molecular biology, immunology and biochemistry. Kudos to @idikic.bsky.social, I. Stagljar and T. Lenac 1/2
While LLM are useful and make us much more efficient, thez also make us complacent and kinda lazy. Now there is more evidence on that. time.com/7295195/ai-c...
h/t @mjkellner.bsky.social 🧪
h/t @mjkellner.bsky.social 🧪
ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study
The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.
time.com
June 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
While LLM are useful and make us much more efficient, thez also make us complacent and kinda lazy. Now there is more evidence on that. time.com/7295195/ai-c...
h/t @mjkellner.bsky.social 🧪
h/t @mjkellner.bsky.social 🧪
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NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
June 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
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"You're laughing? Big Balls lost his government job and you're laughing?"
June 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
"You're laughing? Big Balls lost his government job and you're laughing?"
Like every other Friday, today my lab has a journal club. We will discuss a new paper by the @virusesimmunity.bsky.social Iwasaki lab on Ig responses to endogenous retroviruses. I write this to highlight an AI tool for rapid analysis of PDF manuscripts notebooklm.google.com. We tried it and... 1/2🧪
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June 20, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Like every other Friday, today my lab has a journal club. We will discuss a new paper by the @virusesimmunity.bsky.social Iwasaki lab on Ig responses to endogenous retroviruses. I write this to highlight an AI tool for rapid analysis of PDF manuscripts notebooklm.google.com. We tried it and... 1/2🧪
This is a very nice report on the local TV network (German only) on our efforts to develop a #biotech platform that allows modular development of #vaccines eliciting non-waning immunity against an array of potential targets. Our first aims is a vaccine against #RSV. Others will follow. Stay tuned.🙂
Die HZI-Forscher @cicin-sainlab.bsky.social & Henning Jacobsen entwickeln eine Technologie, die Auffrischungsimpfungen überflüssig machen soll. Mithilfe eines #Herpesvirus aus Mäusen soll zunächst langanhaltender Schutz gegen #RSV erreicht werden. Sat1 berichtet.
www.sat1regional.de/auffrischung...
www.sat1regional.de/auffrischung...
June 20, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Very proud of my former student Zeeshan, who has identified a genetic determinant of T-cell memory formation.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
He & the team of G. Belz show that GFI1 is critical for the establishment & maintenance of antigen specific T-cell populations. Why does this matter? 1/3🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
He & the team of G. Belz show that GFI1 is critical for the establishment & maintenance of antigen specific T-cell populations. Why does this matter? 1/3🧪
GFI1-driven transcriptional and epigenetic programs maintain CD8+ T cell stemness and persistence - Nature Immunology
Belz and colleagues show that GFI1, a transcriptional repressor that recruits histone-modifying enzymes, is necessary for the generation and maintenance of stem cell memory CD8+ T cells.
www.nature.com
June 12, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Very proud of my former student Zeeshan, who has identified a genetic determinant of T-cell memory formation.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
He & the team of G. Belz show that GFI1 is critical for the establishment & maintenance of antigen specific T-cell populations. Why does this matter? 1/3🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
He & the team of G. Belz show that GFI1 is critical for the establishment & maintenance of antigen specific T-cell populations. Why does this matter? 1/3🧪
The @gesvirologie.bsky.social has now published g-f-v.org/en/fuenf-jah... addressing among others the merits of Great Barrington Declaration, which advocated for ending COVID-19 lockdowns, focused protection of vulnerable, while allowing low-risk groups to live normally & build natural immunity. 1/5
Five years of COVID-19: Comments from the Society of Virology on dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany | Society of Virology
g-f-v.org
June 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
The @gesvirologie.bsky.social has now published g-f-v.org/en/fuenf-jah... addressing among others the merits of Great Barrington Declaration, which advocated for ending COVID-19 lockdowns, focused protection of vulnerable, while allowing low-risk groups to live normally & build natural immunity. 1/5
I gave a talk on COVID vaccines yesterday. I combined in my introduction slide two key meta-analyses, with the good and the bad news about COVID vaccines. While mRNA and some protein vaccines outperform infection in terms of antibody responses and protectivity, this does not last that long. 1/2🧪
June 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I gave a talk on COVID vaccines yesterday. I combined in my introduction slide two key meta-analyses, with the good and the bad news about COVID vaccines. While mRNA and some protein vaccines outperform infection in terms of antibody responses and protectivity, this does not last that long. 1/2🧪
The Virological Society (Gesellschaft für Virologie - GfV), along with the German Society for Infectiology has issued a statement on lessons learned from the last pandemic. While it was originally issued in German, it is now also available in English. You can find it here:🧪
g-f-v.org/en/fuenf-jah...
g-f-v.org/en/fuenf-jah...
Five years of COVID-19: Comments from the Society of Virology on dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany | Society of Virology
g-f-v.org
June 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The Virological Society (Gesellschaft für Virologie - GfV), along with the German Society for Infectiology has issued a statement on lessons learned from the last pandemic. While it was originally issued in German, it is now also available in English. You can find it here:🧪
g-f-v.org/en/fuenf-jah...
g-f-v.org/en/fuenf-jah...
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Second day of the @www.helmholtz.de #COVIPA Symposium on Pandemic Preparedness. Really excited now to listen to Leif Sander @sanderlab.bsky.social on the role of innate immunity in respiratory viral infections 🤩
June 3, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Second day of the @www.helmholtz.de #COVIPA Symposium on Pandemic Preparedness. Really excited now to listen to Leif Sander @sanderlab.bsky.social on the role of innate immunity in respiratory viral infections 🤩
Really grateful to my host Milena for her hospitality at the Pasteur Institute. Amazing research environment and facilities, and awesome faculty. I look forward to more opportunities for future joint projects.
May 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Really grateful to my host Milena for her hospitality at the Pasteur Institute. Amazing research environment and facilities, and awesome faculty. I look forward to more opportunities for future joint projects.