Lauren Malsick
@laurenmalsick.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Brian Geiss' lab at Colorado State University. I study bats, viruses, and RNA all in one! 🦇🧬
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@geisslaboratory.bsky.social at ASV is a success! Great times with great people, and everyone has done an amazing job!
July 17, 2025 at 4:50 AM
@geisslaboratory.bsky.social at ASV is a success! Great times with great people, and everyone has done an amazing job!
Our post doc in the @geisslaboratory.bsky.social and @ebellaboratory.bsky.social labs did a fantastic job! Way to go Chasity! #ASV2025
July 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Our post doc in the @geisslaboratory.bsky.social and @ebellaboratory.bsky.social labs did a fantastic job! Way to go Chasity! #ASV2025
Off to Montreal for #ASV2025 with the @geisslaboratory.bsky.social! I have a talk on Tuesday, be sure to stop by! :)
July 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Off to Montreal for #ASV2025 with the @geisslaboratory.bsky.social! I have a talk on Tuesday, be sure to stop by! :)
I have put signs up in our building on what to do in an ICE raid. I wish I could do more. I'm calling representatives, I'm protesting, and providing resources. Please take care of yourself during this time ❤️🧪 THIS IS NOT OKAY.
Arrests of scholars by US President Donald Trump’s administration prompts lawsuit alleging free-speech violations
https://go.nature.com/3QZHA2q
https://go.nature.com/3QZHA2q
International PhD students make emergency plans in fear of US immigration raids
Arrests of scholars by US President Donald Trump’s administration prompts lawsuit alleging free-speech violations.
go.nature.com
April 4, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I have put signs up in our building on what to do in an ICE raid. I wish I could do more. I'm calling representatives, I'm protesting, and providing resources. Please take care of yourself during this time ❤️🧪 THIS IS NOT OKAY.
It's a really awful time to be an American virologist in the last year of my PhD... Thankfully, I just got a ton of sequencing data so I can stare down the supercomputer to finally run my script correctly instead of doomscrolling...
The sheer volume of time and energy being spent by thousands of university-based researchers in *every* field right now to figure out if their funding will exist next month or next year, if their careers can even continue… just citing dollar values doesn’t do it justice, it is full-scale upheaval.
April 1, 2025 at 1:58 AM
It's a really awful time to be an American virologist in the last year of my PhD... Thankfully, I just got a ton of sequencing data so I can stare down the supercomputer to finally run my script correctly instead of doomscrolling...
With all this craziness, I am really excited to announce I received the CSU One Health Institute award on my project: "Investigating Small RNA Molecules in a Bat Cell Model in Response to Mosquito-Borne and No-known-vector Flaviviruses" A nice little science win this week! 🧪🧬🦇
2025 One Health Student Awards - One Health Institute
2025 Student One Health Awards The CSU One Health Institute funded five One Health Student Award projects in 2025. These awards support student research to implement a One Health project that addresse...
onehealth.colostate.edu
March 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
With all this craziness, I am really excited to announce I received the CSU One Health Institute award on my project: "Investigating Small RNA Molecules in a Bat Cell Model in Response to Mosquito-Borne and No-known-vector Flaviviruses" A nice little science win this week! 🧪🧬🦇
Also @geisslaboratory.bsky.social approved this message at @standupforscience.bsky.social #science #resist
March 8, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Also @geisslaboratory.bsky.social approved this message at @standupforscience.bsky.social #science #resist
8 years ago, I marched for science. What's the same: same president, same sweatshirt, same science denials. What's different: I have a PI that supports my success, I am getting the PhD I dreamed of, and all of us are ready to fight, I think, even harder than before. #standupforscience2025 #science
March 8, 2025 at 2:29 AM
8 years ago, I marched for science. What's the same: same president, same sweatshirt, same science denials. What's different: I have a PI that supports my success, I am getting the PhD I dreamed of, and all of us are ready to fight, I think, even harder than before. #standupforscience2025 #science
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Ending virology and vaccine research is far more dangerous than virology and vaccine research itself.
We can mitigate risks in the lab, but we can’t mitigate the catastrophic risk of being unprepared and defenseless against emerging viruses.
We can mitigate risks in the lab, but we can’t mitigate the catastrophic risk of being unprepared and defenseless against emerging viruses.
It is worth paying close attention to the new bill "Dangerous Viral Gain of Function Research Moratorium Act" introduced by Senator Roger Marshall.
If enacted, it will effectively stop all of virological research, including for vaccines.
www.marshall.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
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If enacted, it will effectively stop all of virological research, including for vaccines.
www.marshall.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
🧵👇
February 28, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Ending virology and vaccine research is far more dangerous than virology and vaccine research itself.
We can mitigate risks in the lab, but we can’t mitigate the catastrophic risk of being unprepared and defenseless against emerging viruses.
We can mitigate risks in the lab, but we can’t mitigate the catastrophic risk of being unprepared and defenseless against emerging viruses.
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"I foster appreciation for local biodiversity through direct wildlife engagement"
February 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
"I foster appreciation for local biodiversity through direct wildlife engagement"
Reposted by Lauren Malsick
The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs.
Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)
Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)
Ax falls on elite group of Ph.D.s training to lead U.S. public health labs
Most of the fellows in CDC’s highly competitive Laboratory Leadership Service were fired last weekend
www.science.org
February 20, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs.
Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)
Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)
Moved over from the X, looking follow more fellow virologists! I'm a molecular virologist by trade, bioinformatician by necessity, and accidental innate immunologist... I'll be at #ASV2025 and would love to connect!
February 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Moved over from the X, looking follow more fellow virologists! I'm a molecular virologist by trade, bioinformatician by necessity, and accidental innate immunologist... I'll be at #ASV2025 and would love to connect!