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Andrea Thoma-Kress
@thomakresslab.bsky.social
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Virology, Transmission, Cell-Cell Communication, Signaling, Tumorviruses, Retroviral Pathogenesis, HTLV
@UniFAU. Erlangen. Personal views.
https://www.thoma-kress-lab.de
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thomakresslab.bsky.social
One day left! Starting tomorrow, we will host the #HTLV European Research Network (#HERN2025) meeting at the Institute of Clinical and Molecular Virology at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen and @fau.de. We expect more than 70 participants including leading experts in the field!
July 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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erictopol.bsky.social
Too much protein in the diet appears to carry a risk of atherosclerotic heart disease secondary to leucine's effect. An important report considering recent advocacy for very high-protein diets.
@natmetabolism.nature.com
nature.com/articles/s42...
May 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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mackayim.bsky.social
Roll-out of RSV vaccine and antibody treatment leads to massive drop in US hospitalisations
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
Roll-out of RSV vaccine and antibody treatment leads to massive drop in US hospitalisations
Data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that the roll-out of preventive approaches has had an immediate impact on RSV rates.
www.gavi.org
May 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
thomakresslab.bsky.social
Congrats to Florian Simon! 🎉 He submitted his PhD thesis today.
Looking forward to your defense! #ProudPI
What did Florian discover? 🔬
Florian studied the #HTLV protein p8, which is important for establishing infection in vivo.
p8 is a mobile protein and transferred to target cells within minutes.
May 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
thomakresslab.bsky.social
It was a great pleasure to talk about prevention strategies and milk transmission of #HTLV at the 5th Infect-Net meeting @tum.de. Great to have such a powerful network of #WomeninScience.
infect-net.bsky.social Infect-Net @infect-net.bsky.social · Apr 4
📝 Das war das 5. Netzwerktreffen von Infect-Net!
Jetzt online: Ein ausführlicher Bericht über unsere Tagung zu #GlobalHealth an der @tum.de in München ist hier nachzulesen:
👉 www.infectnet.org/web/blog-pos... 💜
#Infektionsforschung #Infektionen #WomeninScience
Gruppenfoto der Teilnehmerinnen des 5. Netzwerktreffens von Infect-Net an der TU München. Foto: Kathrin Czoppelt
April 6, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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infect-net.bsky.social
🥂 Ein Grund zu Feiern: Wir haben den Verband Deutscher Infektionsforscherinnen gegründet! 👩‍🔬🦠🥳
Am 25. März 2025 haben wir in München einen Verein gegründet, um die Ziele und die Mission von #InfectNet langfristig weiterzuführen und weiterzuentwickeln. 💜 #megastolz
👉 www.infectnet.org/web/blog-pos...
Gruppenfoto der Gründungsmitglieder des Verbands Deutscher Infektionsforscherinnen - Infect-Net. Acht lächelnde Frauen stehen um ein Werbebanner des Frauennetzwerks Infect-Net. Eine Frau hält die unterschriebene Satzung in die Kamera. Foto: Kathrin Czoppelt.
April 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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infect-net.bsky.social
📰✨ Wir sind sehr happy darüber, dass wir Infect-Net in der aktuellen Ausgabe des #BioSpektrums vorstellen durften! 🚀
Schaut mal rein:
👀👉 rdcu.be/efwbV

@gbmev.bsky.social @vaam-microbes.bsky.social @vbio.bsky.social @gabrielepradel.bsky.social @kkubatzky.bsky.social
Netzwerk für Infektionsforscherinnen
rdcu.be
March 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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infect-net.bsky.social
🚀 It's a wrap! 🥂 At our 5th network meeting at @tum.de in Munich, we not only discussed issues of #globalhealth and #ethics in infection research, we also held the inaugural meeting of the German association of Women in #Infection Research! 💜 More details will follow shortly 🥳🤯 stay tuned!
March 25, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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kakape.bsky.social
“Health researchers who work in South Africa are on red alert after hearing today that the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) could terminate all grants that fund work in that country within days.”
More concerning news here from Sara Reardon
🧪 #IDsky
Fear spreads that NIH will terminate grants involving South Africa
Trump has promised to cut off funding, claiming nation discriminates against white citizens
www.science.org
March 14, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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mhundhausen.bsky.social
Wer ist von einer dieser Unis? Habt Ihr da mitgemacht?

Wissenschaftler*in? Dann unterschreibt hier:
www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/s4f/de/top/o...
S4F: Ein Appell von Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern in Deutschland an die Politik
als Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler in Deutschland sind wir in großer Sorge. Die Klima­krise und weitere Umweltkrisen (Biodiversitätsverlust, Überlastung biogeochemischer Stoffkreisläu­fe ......
www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de
March 15, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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fau.de
Wer die Wahl hat, hat es gut. 🗳️ Das heißt nicht, dass alles immer einfach und simpel ist. Aber genau deshalb sind unsere Stimmen so wichtig.

👇Mehr zur Aktion #Zusammenland: www.fau.de/2025/02/news...
Bundestagswahl: Wer die Wahl hat, hat es gut
Die FAU unterstützt die Aktion #Zusammenland aus voller Überzeugung. Wer die Wahl hat, hat es gut. Das heißt nicht, dass alles immer einfach und simpel ist. Aber genau deshalb sind unsere Stimmen so…
www.fau.de
February 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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science.org
Most of the fellows in CDC’s highly competitive Laboratory Leadership Service were fired last weekend.

The ultracompetitive, 2-year program, which trains Ph.D. scientists in the intricacies of public health laboratory work. scim.ag/4gPy0te
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
scim.ag
February 19, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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kakape.bsky.social
“USAID-backed studies have been shuttered, data streams have dried up, researchers and technical staff have been fired or put on leave, a system to predict food crises has been muzzled, and a USAID-supported global health journal has stopped reviewing manuscripts.”

From our @science.org news team 🧪
'It’s tectonic:’ U.S. foreign aid freeze deals a blow to research around the globe
Dismantling of USAID could disrupt many clinical trials and wipe away U.S. “soft power” in developing countries, scientists warn
www.science.org
February 6, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Reposted by Andrea Thoma-Kress
nature.com
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has mandated that all scientific manuscripts produced by its researchers that are under review at a journal be withdrawn so that certain language relating to gender can be stripped from them.
https://go.nature.com/40YJGp4
US health agency seeks to cut gender-related terms from scientific papers
The mandate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention follows an executive order from president Donald Trump, and applies to research not yet published.
go.nature.com
February 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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rki.de
Am 4. Februar ist #Weltkrebstag – ein Anlass, auf HPV-bedingten Krebs bei Männern aufmerksam zu machen. #ZahldesMonats #HPV

💪 Die #STIKO empfiehlt auch Jungen die HPV-Impfung. Doch in Deutschland sind erst rund ein Drittel der 15-jährigen Jungen vollständig geimpft.

🔗 rki.de/zahldesmonats
Ein Junge mit einem Pflaster auf dem Oberarm lächelt in die Kamera. Daneben steht in einem orangenen Feld „Zahl des Monats“. Darunter die Zahl „2.900“ in großer, fetter Schrift, gefolgt von dem Text „Männer erkranken pro Jahr an einem HPV-bedingten Tumor“.
February 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
thomakresslab.bsky.social
Great news from #BayFrance!
They fund travel costs for the collaboration between Dr. Ignacio Fernández from @virusfusion007.bsky.social @pasteur.fr and us @fau.de to get a better understanding on #HTLV neutralization! We are looking forward to the scientific exchange with Ignacio! 👍🏻
February 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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erictopol.bsky.social
Immune cell sequencing from birth to old age
"Using our lifecycle-wide single-cell dataset covering 13 age groups over the extent of the human lifespan...."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Reposted by Andrea Thoma-Kress
infect-net.bsky.social
Sie suchen #Infektionsforscherinnen? Wir haben ein #StarterPack mit allen Infect-Net-Wissenschaftlerinnen auf BlueSky zusammengestellt:
🇬🇧 Curious about contributions of women in #infection research? We put together a StarterPack with all our Infect-Net experts on BlueSky 🦋
👉 go.bsky.app/JU8KaeQ
January 24, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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nature.com
The bidirectional transfer of mitochondria between cancer and immune cells is a newly discovered mechanism that thwarts anticancer defences

https://go.nature.com/3PNuEfh
Mitochondrial swap from cancer to immune cells thwarts anti-tumour defences
Bidirectional transfer of mitochondria between cancer and immune cells.
go.nature.com
January 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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gesvirologie.bsky.social
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM), one of the largest life sciences societies, is partnering with the GfV to advance virology research and global collaboration.

You can find more information here: asm.org/Press-Releas... (IVC)
ASM and Gesellschaft für Virologie Partner to Support the Global Virology Community
ASM is joining forces with the Society of Virology, Gesellschaft für Virologie (GfV), the largest virology society in Europe, to broaden the reach of virology research.
asm.org
January 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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beatesodeiklab.bsky.social
Unsere Lieblingsbuchhandlung in Hannover ist auch dabei. Man kann alles online bestellen!
Aber zum Nachschauen nehme ich doch die Amazonen-Website. 😉
cookiespengler.bsky.social Cookie @cookiespengler.bsky.social · Jan 21
Übrigens, wer nach all dem *gestikuliert wild* fürs Bücherkaufen eine Alternative zum Onlineversand mit A sucht, dem kann ich "Genial lokal" empfehlen. Ganz viele Buchhandlungen von nebenan machen mit, man kann dann eine davon auswählen und das Buch indirekt über sie kaufen. <3

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genialokal.de
January 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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becklab.bsky.social
In a great collaboration with @hummerlab.bsky.social and the Kräusslich lab: HIV capsid doesn't break at the NPC; instead, it cracks open the NPC itself! Details in Cell: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... @mpibp.bsky.social @uniheidelberg.bsky.social A thread below:
January 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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gesvirologie.bsky.social
Erstmals seit Ende der 1980er Jahre wurde in Deutschland wieder ein Fall von Maul- und Klauenseuche (MKS), verursacht durch das Maul- und Klauenseuche-Virus (MKSV; FMDV), bei Wasserbüffeln nachgewiesen, wie das Friedrich-Löffler-Institut berichtet.
www.fli.de/de/aktuelles...
(BM)
FLI bestätigt Maul- und Klauenseuche bei Wasserbüffel aus Brandenburg
Kurznachricht des Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
www.fli.de
January 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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erictopol.bsky.social
The potential importance of reactivation of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) as a contributing factor to developing Alzheimer's disease
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
January 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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klausueberla.bsky.social
Our paper on the mechanisms of sterlizing immunity against #HIV was just published at Plos Pathogens: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Congrats to Elie Richel and many thanks to Christiane Stahl-Hennig for the long and fruitfull collaboration! 🧪 #AIDS
Best way to protect individuals from viruses is to block entry of viruses into the very first cells at the exposed mucosal site. Most important for HIV, since this avoids establishment of latently infected cells, that may reactivate the virus years later. Elie Richel now shows in a preclinical HIV model that monoclonal antibodies can do this this by neutralization, but not by Fc-effector functions.
December 27, 2024 at 9:32 AM