Swathi Sukumar
@swathisukumar.bsky.social
Incurable hugger, reminiscing the hugging days of the past. PostDoc working on influenza virus-host interaction and playing with ✨🔬
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Still time to register for our hybrid-Autumn All-Ireland RNA club meeting on the 5th of December. Prof. Angus Lamond will be delivering the keynote. ECR talk prizes will be sponsored by
@rnasociety.bsky.social and Lexogen
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
forms.office.com/e/sgjaRxX1SC
@rnasociety.bsky.social and Lexogen
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
forms.office.com/e/sgjaRxX1SC
November 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Still time to register for our hybrid-Autumn All-Ireland RNA club meeting on the 5th of December. Prof. Angus Lamond will be delivering the keynote. ECR talk prizes will be sponsored by
@rnasociety.bsky.social and Lexogen
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
forms.office.com/e/sgjaRxX1SC
@rnasociety.bsky.social and Lexogen
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
forms.office.com/e/sgjaRxX1SC
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I cannot agree more! The cost of making all vaccines free will be completely offset by lives saved and all the morbidity & hospical costs averted
Why All Vaccines Should Be Free
@crof.bsky.social
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Why All Vaccines Should Be Free
@crof.bsky.social
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Why All Vaccines Should Be Free | The Tyee
COVID-19 normalized vaccination for adults, and we should go further to protect people from shingles and RSV.
thetyee.ca
November 3, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I cannot agree more! The cost of making all vaccines free will be completely offset by lives saved and all the morbidity & hospical costs averted
Why All Vaccines Should Be Free
@crof.bsky.social
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Why All Vaccines Should Be Free
@crof.bsky.social
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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See this? This = implanting mouse embryo. Usually this happens inside its mother and is invisible to us, but we can actually watch implantation ex vivo with the hope of understanding why implantation goes awry in embryos of older women. A 🧵...
October 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
See this? This = implanting mouse embryo. Usually this happens inside its mother and is invisible to us, but we can actually watch implantation ex vivo with the hope of understanding why implantation goes awry in embryos of older women. A 🧵...
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Stress granules formed during different RNA virus infections show remarkable plasticity and substantial virus-specific differences in their formation and composition https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.14.670263v1
August 15, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Stress granules formed during different RNA virus infections show remarkable plasticity and substantial virus-specific differences in their formation and composition https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.14.670263v1
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“Unfortunately, we have a Labour government seemingly determined to outflank Reform on immigration . . .These attacks are having a severe impact on the financial health of the sector” - @drjogrady.bsky.social in the @theipaper.com today
inews.co.uk/news/flag-wa...
inews.co.uk/news/flag-wa...
Why ‘flag wars’ are scaring overseas students and risk deepening unis’ cash crisis
‘It’s mad in Britain. Will I be ok?’. International students about to study in UK universities are alarmed by the country's new political climate
inews.co.uk
September 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“Unfortunately, we have a Labour government seemingly determined to outflank Reform on immigration . . .These attacks are having a severe impact on the financial health of the sector” - @drjogrady.bsky.social in the @theipaper.com today
inews.co.uk/news/flag-wa...
inews.co.uk/news/flag-wa...
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I wish my all my students labeled their figures as well as my daughter.
September 9, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I wish my all my students labeled their figures as well as my daughter.
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Excited to share my postdoc work from the Eggeling lab in Jena (@leibnizipht.bsky.social, #FSUJena, #KTHuniversity) on bringing smart microscopy to super-resolution MINFLUX: event-triggered MINFLUX microscopy.
September 2, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Excited to share my postdoc work from the Eggeling lab in Jena (@leibnizipht.bsky.social, #FSUJena, #KTHuniversity) on bringing smart microscopy to super-resolution MINFLUX: event-triggered MINFLUX microscopy.
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Our lab has an opening for a research technician to contribute to our efforts to understand RSV evolution & its impact on antibody countermeasures (see journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....). The tech will also help w lab management.
If interested, apply here: careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/29940/job
If interested, apply here: careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/29940/job
August 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Our lab has an opening for a research technician to contribute to our efforts to understand RSV evolution & its impact on antibody countermeasures (see journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....). The tech will also help w lab management.
If interested, apply here: careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/29940/job
If interested, apply here: careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/29940/job
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Have you noticed the skies have gone quiet? The swifts have flown to Africa, leaving a silence where their screams once danced. I miss their wild shrieks already! If you do too, watch Charles Foster’s beautiful talk: 'The Screaming Skies' — a love song to their joyful chaos.
The Screaming Sky: The strange allure of swifts. Charles Foster
YouTube video by Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery
youtu.be
August 12, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Have you noticed the skies have gone quiet? The swifts have flown to Africa, leaving a silence where their screams once danced. I miss their wild shrieks already! If you do too, watch Charles Foster’s beautiful talk: 'The Screaming Skies' — a love song to their joyful chaos.
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📢 PSA:
🧬 We all have mRNA — it’s how cells make the proteins we need to live.
💉 COVID-19 vaccine mRNA is lab-made 🏭, teaches your immune system 🛡️ to fight the virus, never enters the nucleus, and is gone in days ⏳.
🧬 We all have mRNA — it’s how cells make the proteins we need to live.
💉 COVID-19 vaccine mRNA is lab-made 🏭, teaches your immune system 🛡️ to fight the virus, never enters the nucleus, and is gone in days ⏳.
August 11, 2025 at 2:25 AM
📢 PSA:
🧬 We all have mRNA — it’s how cells make the proteins we need to live.
💉 COVID-19 vaccine mRNA is lab-made 🏭, teaches your immune system 🛡️ to fight the virus, never enters the nucleus, and is gone in days ⏳.
🧬 We all have mRNA — it’s how cells make the proteins we need to live.
💉 COVID-19 vaccine mRNA is lab-made 🏭, teaches your immune system 🛡️ to fight the virus, never enters the nucleus, and is gone in days ⏳.
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Microscopy most especially. To be the first human to ever lay eyes on something. What a feeling.
Really just had something like this feeling this afternoon. It’s the high that keeps you coming back for more
August 8, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Microscopy most especially. To be the first human to ever lay eyes on something. What a feeling.
August 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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if you think that's bad, I once saw a kids movie in which boy wizards sneaked into a women's toilet looking for a secret chamber, what kind of sick mind comes up with stuff like that??
August 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
if you think that's bad, I once saw a kids movie in which boy wizards sneaked into a women's toilet looking for a secret chamber, what kind of sick mind comes up with stuff like that??
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📣 I'm recruiting a postdoc researcher to join my team for a project on mosquito-specific viruses and host interactions. Peep the job description & how to apply below. Perfect for soon-to-be or recent PhD graduates in mosquito vector biology 🦟 or arbovirology 🦠
🗓️ Application deadline 31 August 2025
🗓️ Application deadline 31 August 2025
July 28, 2025 at 9:25 AM
📣 I'm recruiting a postdoc researcher to join my team for a project on mosquito-specific viruses and host interactions. Peep the job description & how to apply below. Perfect for soon-to-be or recent PhD graduates in mosquito vector biology 🦟 or arbovirology 🦠
🗓️ Application deadline 31 August 2025
🗓️ Application deadline 31 August 2025
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Come join our community science program!! Including online monthly nerd jams meetings open to the public.
Please share far and wide, and welcome our new community coordinator @colinjanthony.bsky.social! 🧪🌊
Please share far and wide, and welcome our new community coordinator @colinjanthony.bsky.social! 🧪🌊
Are you interested in open ocean organisms? Specifically the one's at the surface?
🪼 🐌 🌊
If so, message me. We are starting a collaborative community to exchange ideas and communicate research. The field is new, so let's push it in the right direction together! 💙
🪼 🐌 🌊
If so, message me. We are starting a collaborative community to exchange ideas and communicate research. The field is new, so let's push it in the right direction together! 💙
August 2, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Come join our community science program!! Including online monthly nerd jams meetings open to the public.
Please share far and wide, and welcome our new community coordinator @colinjanthony.bsky.social! 🧪🌊
Please share far and wide, and welcome our new community coordinator @colinjanthony.bsky.social! 🧪🌊
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🚨🔎 Out now in PLOS Pathogens ! 🔎🚨 This project has taken us @cvrinfo.bsky.social @uofgmvls.bsky.social on a wild and wonderful journey. I am excited to share our story of how influenza A viruses (IAVs) exploit cell death to facilitate its covert spread. N/1 journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
Induction of tunnelling nanotube-like structures by influenza A viruses requires the onset of apoptosis
Author summary Influenza A viruses (IAVs) spread efficiently through the respiratory tract in the form of extracellular virus particles, but can be restricted by neutralising antibodies and antiviral ...
journals.plos.org
June 6, 2025 at 8:40 AM
🚨🔎 Out now in PLOS Pathogens ! 🔎🚨 This project has taken us @cvrinfo.bsky.social @uofgmvls.bsky.social on a wild and wonderful journey. I am excited to share our story of how influenza A viruses (IAVs) exploit cell death to facilitate its covert spread. N/1 journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
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#FlemingFund - hearing grave concerns about its abolition from the #AMR community.
And not convinced by "function is continuing just not form"
@bsacandjac.bsky.social @microbiologysociety.org @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social @leanahosea.bsky.social #AntiMicrobialResistance #PublicHealth #OneHealth
And not convinced by "function is continuing just not form"
@bsacandjac.bsky.social @microbiologysociety.org @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social @leanahosea.bsky.social #AntiMicrobialResistance #PublicHealth #OneHealth
July 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
#FlemingFund - hearing grave concerns about its abolition from the #AMR community.
And not convinced by "function is continuing just not form"
@bsacandjac.bsky.social @microbiologysociety.org @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social @leanahosea.bsky.social #AntiMicrobialResistance #PublicHealth #OneHealth
And not convinced by "function is continuing just not form"
@bsacandjac.bsky.social @microbiologysociety.org @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social @leanahosea.bsky.social #AntiMicrobialResistance #PublicHealth #OneHealth
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Call for applications for TB colleagues in India and SEAR region!
2nd Advanced TB Diagnostics Course
A capacity building workshop for countries in the South-East Asian Region
Details and application form available at: nirt.res.in
2nd Advanced TB Diagnostics Course
A capacity building workshop for countries in the South-East Asian Region
Details and application form available at: nirt.res.in
July 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Call for applications for TB colleagues in India and SEAR region!
2nd Advanced TB Diagnostics Course
A capacity building workshop for countries in the South-East Asian Region
Details and application form available at: nirt.res.in
2nd Advanced TB Diagnostics Course
A capacity building workshop for countries in the South-East Asian Region
Details and application form available at: nirt.res.in
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@academic-chatter.bsky.social when doing peer review, do you validate every reference used by the authors?
July 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
@academic-chatter.bsky.social when doing peer review, do you validate every reference used by the authors?
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Autophagy-lysosome pathways are known targets of intracellular bacteria – Ivan Đikić @idikic.bsky.social et al find Legionella uses phosphoribosyl-ubiquitination via SidE to alter autophagic SNAREs & create a bacteria-containing vacuole unable to fuse with lysosomes
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
June 12, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Autophagy-lysosome pathways are known targets of intracellular bacteria – Ivan Đikić @idikic.bsky.social et al find Legionella uses phosphoribosyl-ubiquitination via SidE to alter autophagic SNAREs & create a bacteria-containing vacuole unable to fuse with lysosomes
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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This is a great opportunity to establish a virology research group at CIID, Heidelberg University!
Applications are open for new Schaller Research Group Leader Positions in the field of Infectious Diseases at Heidelberg University. These generously funded positions of 5+2 years are a great opportunity for young virologists!
Find out more here:
www.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/fileadmin/in...
Find out more here:
www.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/fileadmin/in...
March 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This is a great opportunity to establish a virology research group at CIID, Heidelberg University!
Scooped up some prizes
@wwiem-qub.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Research Symposium 2025. Great organization from the PCDC and a wonderful keynote from
Lindsay Broadbent
Thanks to @physoc.bsky.social @microbiologysociety.org and Starlab UK for sponsoring the awards.
@wwiem-qub.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Research Symposium 2025. Great organization from the PCDC and a wonderful keynote from
Lindsay Broadbent
Thanks to @physoc.bsky.social @microbiologysociety.org and Starlab UK for sponsoring the awards.
Congratulations to the winners of our sponsored prizes at the @WWIEM_QUB Postdoctoral Research symposium! Find out more about how we support microbiologists: buff.ly/4fQhvwK
March 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Scooped up some prizes
@wwiem-qub.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Research Symposium 2025. Great organization from the PCDC and a wonderful keynote from
Lindsay Broadbent
Thanks to @physoc.bsky.social @microbiologysociety.org and Starlab UK for sponsoring the awards.
@wwiem-qub.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Research Symposium 2025. Great organization from the PCDC and a wonderful keynote from
Lindsay Broadbent
Thanks to @physoc.bsky.social @microbiologysociety.org and Starlab UK for sponsoring the awards.
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The @briggsgroup.bsky.social alongside teams from @uniheidelberg.bsky.social and @yalemicropath.bsky.social uncover elusive role of #HIV-1 component SP2. Detailed 3D views of viruses by #cryoEM show how SP2 helps the virus matrix to mature.
❕Read the paper @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
❕Read the paper @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The @briggsgroup.bsky.social alongside teams from @uniheidelberg.bsky.social and @yalemicropath.bsky.social uncover elusive role of #HIV-1 component SP2. Detailed 3D views of viruses by #cryoEM show how SP2 helps the virus matrix to mature.
❕Read the paper @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
❕Read the paper @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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New paper out💥 in Nano Letters @pubs.acs.org
High throughput single particle profiler with simple confocal imaging. We used this new method to study protein-lipid interactions, drug membrane interactions and biophysics of small particles from human donors: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
High throughput single particle profiler with simple confocal imaging. We used this new method to study protein-lipid interactions, drug membrane interactions and biophysics of small particles from human donors: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Imaging Single Particle Profiler to Study Nanoscale Bioparticles Using Conventional Confocal Microscopy
Single particle profiling (SPP) is a unique methodology to study nanoscale bioparticles such as liposomes, lipid nanoparticles, extracellular vesicles, and lipoproteins in a single particle and high t...
pubs.acs.org
January 30, 2025 at 9:40 AM
New paper out💥 in Nano Letters @pubs.acs.org
High throughput single particle profiler with simple confocal imaging. We used this new method to study protein-lipid interactions, drug membrane interactions and biophysics of small particles from human donors: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
High throughput single particle profiler with simple confocal imaging. We used this new method to study protein-lipid interactions, drug membrane interactions and biophysics of small particles from human donors: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...