Professor of Microbial Infection & Immunity @OhioState. Respiratory and cardiac virus infection/immunology research. Views my own. 🦠🫁🫀👨🔬🏳️🌈
Columbus, OH
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🚨🚨 Our latest paper shows that IFITM3 deficiency lowers the minimum virus dose threshold for influenza and also enhances adaptation of the virus to a new species.🦠🫁 Major implications for preventing new pandemics. 😷 First author @ParkerJDenz 👨🔬nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Influenza virus hitches a cellular ride to the heart: Cell Host & Microbe cell.com/cell-host-microbe/f…
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Excited to share our new review article published today in @mbiojournal discussing the role of viral toxins in pathogenesis and dissemination. We summarize our recent work and current literature on flavivirus NS1, SARS-CoV-2 Spike, CCHFV GP38, and EBOV GP. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
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🎉Congratulations to #mBio Editors Jorge Vidal (@JorgeEVidal1), Jacob Yount (@YountLabOSU), and Birgit Scharf (of @VT_Biology) and Senior Editor Tom Coenye (of @LPM_UGent) on their election to the American Academy of Microbiology! 👏 asm.social/2OC
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IFITM3 deficiency drives SARS-CoV-2 adaptation while preserving variant-specific traits @NatureComms @YountLabOSU @OhioState @adforu @ParkerJDenz
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Please sign science community letter to congressional appropriations leaders requesting 1) a funding boost for NIH; and 2) hindrance to changes to indirect cost reimbursement. deadline: noon ET tomorrow
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mGems are short, thought-provoking reviews on high-interest topics in microbiology. Read the first 3 papers in this series: on #H5N1, viral entry, and the damage-response framework. #mbio journals.asm.org/journal/mbi…
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A great new mBio mGem from @Lakdawala_Lab on transmission and exposure risks of dairy cow H5N1 influenza virus journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
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🚨Our new preprint! IFITM3 KO mice accelerated SARS-CoV-2 Beta & Omicron adaptation, preserving human-relevant traits & enabling comparative pathology/transcriptomics in mice. 🫁🦠🧬🥼 With @ParkerJDenz @adforu and team. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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The OSU Department of Molecular Genetics is hiring! We are a welcoming community studying a wide range of genetic process with support from state of the art core facilities. Check us out! osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OS…
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We are currently looking for an Assistant Professor of Microbiology, within the area of microbial cell biology!
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you read this and consider submitting a minireview (or other article types) to mBio. If you have an idea, please contact me, or @YountLabOSU or @marclrodrigues. Please re-post.
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Paper out! Postdoc @matt_hackbart characterized non-standard viral genomes generated during arenavirus infections and identified prominent S RNA intergenic region deletions that can interfere with expression of the LCMV glycoprotein| mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
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I am #hiring a Research Scientist with bioinformatic skillsets. If you or someone you know is interested in translational / clinical genomic research, and want to make a meaningful impact for children with rare diseases and cancers, let me know!
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Prospective power analysis is hilarious because your replace an arbitrary guess of sample size with an arbitrary guess of the effect size you’ve yet to measure, do a touch of arithmetic, and suddenly it’s considered rigorous
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New work from Jianrong Li's lab at OSU showing three SARS-CoV-2 spike protein variants delivered intranasally by measles and mumps vaccines are broadly protective. nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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What software is everyone using for generating high res publication figures? We recently made the switch from Powerpoint to Illustrator, but the university is canceling our Adobe subscription and a monthly fee for everyone in the lab isn't gonna work. 🥲😡😩
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Thanks to everyone who came to my talk and for all the questions/suggestions!! Here’s a photo of me and THE IFITM experts @YountLabOSU @compton_lab #ASV2024
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So very happy to have had a chance to spend time with current and past Lopez Lab trainees @YountLabOSU @geneman930 @immunuelle @yansun26 attending #ASV2024 and to meet some of their trainees!
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