Maria Soultsioti
maria-sou.bsky.social
Maria Soultsioti
@maria-sou.bsky.social
PhD candidate @LUMC, Leiden, Netherlands

Coronaviruses | Lipid Metabolism | Membrane Biology
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🔥 Mark the date! 🗓️

Millésime 2026 of the @embo.org Workshop on Pathogen Immunity and Signaling has arrived.

Terrific roster of speakers, many spots for talks, spectacular venue in Leiden.

Submit your abstract.

Join us on 8 – 11 June 2026.

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Pathogen Immunity and Signalling
Viruses, bacteria, and other pathogens pose a serious threat to human health, requiring a coordinated response from the innate and adaptive immune systems. Our immune system relies on pathogen recept…
meetings.embo.org
October 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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TIL "Come Out and Play"/'Keep 'Em Separated' by "The Offspring" was inspired by a grad student experiment with autoclave broth: www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/... (article from 2014)

#chemsky ⚗️🧪
Keep 'em separated
Dexter Holland, the lead singer of the punk-rock band The Offspring, has a lot of different interests. One of them is biology.
www.asbmb.org
September 30, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Latest #virology research from the lab! 👇

Using genetic approaches and live-cell imaging, we show that the viral 2A protease plays a critical role in subverting antiviral responses and establishing a favorable host environment to expedite enterovirus replication.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The critical role of enterovirus 2A protease in viral translation, replication, and antagonism of host antiviral responses
Enteroviruses dramatically remodel the cellular infrastructure for efficient replication and curtailing host antiviral responses. Proteases 2Apro and 3Cpro have been implicated in these processes base...
www.biorxiv.org
February 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Reposted by Maria Soultsioti
“...to care is an act not of weakness, but of strength.”

The Lancet response: bit.ly/4jRb5Av
February 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM