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Innate immune effectors to respiratory viruses. Associate Professor, NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Mom of two. Views are my own.
Proteases involved in your pathway of interest?
Manufacturing Adenovirus?
Excited about Host-Virus Interactions? Restriction factors? Here’s something for you from my academic lab:
Host cell and viral protease targets of human #SERPINs identified by in silico docking
@dittmannlab.bsky.social, Ralf Dürr and collaborators find PAI-2 (SERPINB2) as a direct inhibitor of a viral protease, protecting against infection by human #adenovirus 5
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
September 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
A day of celebration for Dr. Rachel Prescott, 3rd PhD student to graduate from the lab. Co-mentored with my friend Victor Torres.
December 7, 2023 at 11:38 PM
Happy Halloween 🎃
October 31, 2023 at 7:16 PM
Very happy to share our learning curve since March 2020 aimed to enhance robustness and reproducibility among research groups.
Generation of quality-controled SARS-CoV-2 variant stocks - Nature Protocols
This protocol describes the generation of single-clone viral stocks from patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, from the isolation of samples from patient swabs to the purifica...
www.nature.com
October 13, 2023 at 3:11 PM
In this week’s lab meeting, we talked about struggles in your professional life, normalizing them, and brainstorming individual strategies to pull yourself out of the “valley of tears” as well as team strategies to support each other.
October 7, 2023 at 1:12 PM
Reposted by Dittmann lab
We have an open virology faculty search at the University of Illinois! We have world class core facilities and a fantastic collaborative group of young faculty working on cutting edge questions in virus biology...you could be next!

Please re-post/RT/re-bleet/whatever it is called here!
September 5, 2023 at 2:35 PM