This happens every year. The day after the email goes out at my university, all the slots for flu vaccine shots are fully booked.

But when are we going to get the Frank N Furter virus?

Nice "thank you" card from a first year undergrad who just finished a short lab placement. She said polyomaviruses were too boring to draw!

Measles in film/literature number 2. This one is from Gone With the Wind. If you recall, when war breaks out, all the southern gents at 12 Oaks rush to enlist in the confederate army, and Scarlett, jealous that her crush, Ashley, is going to marry her bestie, Melanie, instead of her,

I am still not too old to present a poster at the JFV in Lyon today. @sfvirologie.bsky.social

Here is the figure:

SR colleagues were there as well

Standing up for science in Nantes this afternoon.

Lively students at the canteen today.

and here it is after the Triton lysis:

Here's the neutralization assay on the supernatants:

End of an era in my undergraduate virology course. This is the last year the GFP-baculovirus expt will run in the lab class.

First Virology class of 2025, 8 am on a freezing cold Monday morning.

Just checked some Lambda phage stored at -20 since 2004. The titre hasn't budged an inch in 20 years!

Maybe it needs to be a tree covered with mistletoe

In any case, now I just need to cover gd T-cells and CMV, and the mAb paper from Matthias Zehner and Florian Klein pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37967532/, then I can watch Scotland-Australia this afternoon!

Best labcoat in class this year (and the last few years, in fact)