Assist. Prof. @UCLAQCBio @MicrobioUcla. Postdoc @KroganLab. PhD @BirtwistleLab. Phosphoproteomics +Bioinformatics +Disease. 50% dry, 50% wet.🇺🇸🇫🇷🇲🇦🏳️‍🌈

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Mehdi Bouhaddou, PhD retweeted
Inflammation is a driver of age-related diseases (inflammaging) and this new @NYTmag gets deep into the progress that is being made to track and block it gift link nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
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Mehdi Bouhaddou, PhD retweeted
Two of the most important biomedical breakthroughs came from science of the Gila lizard venom (GLP-1s) and yogurt (CRISPR genome editing). "The system that turned that lizard into a medicine is now being dismantled." "Less support for scientists means strange questions no one will get to chase." gift link nytimes.com/2026/06/20/opini…
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Mehdi Bouhaddou, PhD retweeted
🚨 The @AfricaCDC statement on the new #Ebola outbreak in #DRC is deeply concerning. 🔬 This is a non-Zaire ebolavirus outbreak 🧪 13 of 20 samples tested positive ⚠️ 246 suspected cases reported 🕊️ 65 deaths, including 4 laboratory workers This highlights the urgent need for enhanced surveillance, rapid diagnostics, infection prevention and control, and protection of frontline healthcare and laboratory personnel.
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Thrilled to share the first major preprint from the lab. Viruses are classically viewed as targets of host sensing. Do viruses also sense and respond to the host? We propose viruses may act as “biosensors” of the host signaling state. A thread👇🏾 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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In sum, our findings suggest the possibility that viruses evolved as biosensors of the host signaling state, unveiling new antiviral opportunities aimed at disrupting virus decision-making.
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Big shout out to co-first authors @kareem_alb and Declan Winters! Also to our stellar collaborators, couldn’t do it without you. Collaboration makes the dream work!
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Another great short essay, by Paul Nurse, 2021: "Theorizing should be encouraged, and theories should be included in experimental papers to put data in context."
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Happy Holidays from the Bouhaddou Lab @MicrobioUcla @UCLAQCBio @UCLA. It’s been a productive year and the group is growing. Feel lucky to get to do science with good people.
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Congratulations to Yennifer Delgado @Delgado_Yenn PhD student in my group for receiving the @NSF GRFP, a competitive 3-year fellowship for graduate students, and to Declan Winters for an honorable mention. You guys are amazing. I’m lucky to work with you!
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Stellar presentation by Yennifer Delgado @Delgado_Yenn at the @MicrobioUcla virology seminar series, PhD student in the lab, talking about her work on membrane protein phosphorylation — stay tuned for updates
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Mehdi Bouhaddou, PhD retweeted
Seminar next week, Monday 17th at ASTAR ID Labs. @DoctorBou Prof. Mehdi Bouhaddou from UCLA will present his lab's work on phosphoproteomics and protein-protein interactions in virus infections. bouhaddoulab.org
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