Matt Gartner
@gartnerm94.bsky.social
Virologist 🦠 at the Doherty Institute.
Our study describing the isolation and characterisation of contemporary seasonal #coronaviruses is out 🦠🎉🎊 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... Led by @jessneil26.bsky.social at @thedohertyinst.bsky.social
August 27, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Our study describing the isolation and characterisation of contemporary seasonal #coronaviruses is out 🦠🎉🎊 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... Led by @jessneil26.bsky.social at @thedohertyinst.bsky.social
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Very excited to share our latest preprint describing the isolation and characterization of neutralizing HCoV-229E-directed antibodies from a human donor! Great collaboration between DHVI and the Baric and Sheahan (@timothysheahan.bsky.social) labs at UNC.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A neutralizing human antibody induces movement of the HCoV-229E receptor binding domain
HCoV-229E is an endemic Alphacoronavirus that typically causes common cold-like disease in most healthy adults, but can also cause severe respiratory disease in the very young and the elderly. Althoug...
www.biorxiv.org
May 19, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Very excited to share our latest preprint describing the isolation and characterization of neutralizing HCoV-229E-directed antibodies from a human donor! Great collaboration between DHVI and the Baric and Sheahan (@timothysheahan.bsky.social) labs at UNC.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Calling all virologists: my lab is hiring a tech for high containment work! Come work with our amazing team at 🇨🇦's National Pandemic Research Centre, using experimental, systems biology, & AI-driven approaches to study infection & pathogenesis of emerging viruses.
vido.applytojobs.ca/research/38682
vido.applytojobs.ca/research/38682
May 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Calling all virologists: my lab is hiring a tech for high containment work! Come work with our amazing team at 🇨🇦's National Pandemic Research Centre, using experimental, systems biology, & AI-driven approaches to study infection & pathogenesis of emerging viruses.
vido.applytojobs.ca/research/38682
vido.applytojobs.ca/research/38682
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Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
-the main cluster lacks a link to a camel, which means there is one or more missing cases. But that's not unusual for #MERS-CoV outbreaks. Prolonged contact necessary for transmission.
www.who.int/emergencies/...
-the main cluster lacks a link to a camel, which means there is one or more missing cases. But that's not unusual for #MERS-CoV outbreaks. Prolonged contact necessary for transmission.
www.who.int/emergencies/...
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Between 1 March and 21 April 2025, the Ministry of Health (MoH) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) reported nine cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection. Two of th...
www.who.int
May 12, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
-the main cluster lacks a link to a camel, which means there is one or more missing cases. But that's not unusual for #MERS-CoV outbreaks. Prolonged contact necessary for transmission.
www.who.int/emergencies/...
-the main cluster lacks a link to a camel, which means there is one or more missing cases. But that's not unusual for #MERS-CoV outbreaks. Prolonged contact necessary for transmission.
www.who.int/emergencies/...
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My latest column: Trump's CIA revives a lie about COVID origins
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
Column: A CIA 'assessment' revives the fact-free claim that COVID started in a Chinese lab
Not a speck of evidence has emerged showing that the COVID virus leaked from a Chinese lab. So why does a just-released CIA statement claim that it did? Blame politics.
www.latimes.com
January 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
My latest column: Trump's CIA revives a lie about COVID origins
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
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Heard from inside the National Cancer Institute, part of NIH — travel through April is canceled. Purchasing with government card is frozen. All public comms are off limits. Can’t even submit abstracts to future meetings. Can’t submit *manuscripts* for publication. All hiring activity frozen. Fuck.
January 25, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Heard from inside the National Cancer Institute, part of NIH — travel through April is canceled. Purchasing with government card is frozen. All public comms are off limits. Can’t even submit abstracts to future meetings. Can’t submit *manuscripts* for publication. All hiring activity frozen. Fuck.
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Wendy Barclay and I are recruiting a postdoc for a project investigating the evolution of swine influenza viruses and how this impacts future pandemic potential.
Job is based at Imperial's South Kensington campus. Drop me a DM/email for more details.
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
Job is based at Imperial's South Kensington campus. Drop me a DM/email for more details.
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
Description
Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...
www.imperial.ac.uk
January 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Wendy Barclay and I are recruiting a postdoc for a project investigating the evolution of swine influenza viruses and how this impacts future pandemic potential.
Job is based at Imperial's South Kensington campus. Drop me a DM/email for more details.
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
Job is based at Imperial's South Kensington campus. Drop me a DM/email for more details.
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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First #FluorescenceFriday of the year calls for firework-esque staining.
January 4, 2025 at 2:36 AM
First #FluorescenceFriday of the year calls for firework-esque staining.
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🎁 Early Xmas present from your friends at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research @cvrinfo.bsky.social
We're thrilled to unwrap Viro3D - a comprehensive database of virus protein structures: >85,000 predicted structures from 4,400 human & animal viruses! 🦠
viro3d.cvr.gla.ac.uk
We're thrilled to unwrap Viro3D - a comprehensive database of virus protein structures: >85,000 predicted structures from 4,400 human & animal viruses! 🦠
viro3d.cvr.gla.ac.uk
Viro3D
viro3d.cvr.gla.ac.uk
December 20, 2024 at 5:51 PM
🎁 Early Xmas present from your friends at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research @cvrinfo.bsky.social
We're thrilled to unwrap Viro3D - a comprehensive database of virus protein structures: >85,000 predicted structures from 4,400 human & animal viruses! 🦠
viro3d.cvr.gla.ac.uk
We're thrilled to unwrap Viro3D - a comprehensive database of virus protein structures: >85,000 predicted structures from 4,400 human & animal viruses! 🦠
viro3d.cvr.gla.ac.uk
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The persistent pool of HIV-1-infected cells is formed episodically during untreated infection journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
The persistent pool of HIV-1-infected cells is formed episodically during untreated infection | Journal of Virology
Cells harboring HIV-1 proviruses that persist on antiretroviral therapy (ART) constitute
the main barrier to an HIV-1 cure. Recent work has elucidated that the majority of
persisting proviruses harbor...
journals.asm.org
December 26, 2024 at 10:01 PM
The persistent pool of HIV-1-infected cells is formed episodically during untreated infection journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Always a treat to catch up with past and current members of the Beard Lab 🦠 @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social #AVS12
December 6, 2024 at 2:03 AM
Always a treat to catch up with past and current members of the Beard Lab 🦠 @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social #AVS12
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I have a few brief thoughts on this just released Science paper on the adaptation potential of bovine #H5N1 HA. Its very good work by very good group at Scripps! Think people need to be cautious in assessing the actualized risk out of this one study. #influenza
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A single mutation in bovine influenza H5N1 hemagglutinin switches specificity to human receptors
In 2024, several human infections with highly pathogenic clade 2.3.4.4b bovine influenza H5N1 viruses in the United States raised concerns about their capability for bovine-to-human or even human-to-h...
www.science.org
December 5, 2024 at 7:59 PM
I have a few brief thoughts on this just released Science paper on the adaptation potential of bovine #H5N1 HA. Its very good work by very good group at Scripps! Think people need to be cautious in assessing the actualized risk out of this one study. #influenza
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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I've made a starter pack for Aussie virologists joining Bluesky at #AVS12. Let me know if you would like to be added- please share 🤗
@ausvirologysoc.bsky.social
go.bsky.app/FgBEzfc
@ausvirologysoc.bsky.social
go.bsky.app/FgBEzfc
December 4, 2024 at 3:42 AM
I've made a starter pack for Aussie virologists joining Bluesky at #AVS12. Let me know if you would like to be added- please share 🤗
@ausvirologysoc.bsky.social
go.bsky.app/FgBEzfc
@ausvirologysoc.bsky.social
go.bsky.app/FgBEzfc