Nate Sherer
@natesherer.bsky.social
University of Wisconsin-Madison McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research and Institute for Molecular Virology. Viruses and cells. Opinions my own.
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Tess Woodring, former Cancer Biology Training Grant Medical Oncology Fellow receieved a presitigious NIH Pediatric Scientist Development Program (PSDP) award: www.pediatrics.wisc.edu/department-o...
Department of Pediatrics fellow, Therese (Tess) Woodring, selected for Pediatric Scientist Development Program
In a historic first for the department, Therese (Tess) Woodring, MD, was selected for the Pediatric Scientist Development Program (PSDP). She is the first-ever fellow from the Department of Pediatrics...
www.pediatrics.wisc.edu
February 9, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Tess Woodring, former Cancer Biology Training Grant Medical Oncology Fellow receieved a presitigious NIH Pediatric Scientist Development Program (PSDP) award: www.pediatrics.wisc.edu/department-o...
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Congratulations to our most recent McArdle Trainee Seminar award winner: Caleb Carlsen from the Weaver lab (awarded in December 2025)! mcardle.wisc.edu/2026/02/06/m...
February 6, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Congratulations to our most recent McArdle Trainee Seminar award winner: Caleb Carlsen from the Weaver lab (awarded in December 2025)! mcardle.wisc.edu/2026/02/06/m...
Hooray for Wei!
"Having worked on breast cancer for over 20 years, I aim to help develop personalized treatments for breast cancer patients that can overcome treatment resistance and improve survival rates and quality of life for those affected by this disease."
Meet UW-Madison’s Wei Xu
“Prof. Xu is an expert in breast cancer biology. We are excited about the novel targets and mechanisms coming from her research.”
www.warf.org
February 6, 2026 at 11:17 PM
Hooray for Wei!
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So, the US doesn't like vaccines anymore for infectious disease prevention. But stopping PEPFAR in 2025 is now showing 13-66% declines in oral or injectable drug HIV prevention programs in several countries over the past year. 🤦♀️
February 5, 2026 at 5:28 PM
So, the US doesn't like vaccines anymore for infectious disease prevention. But stopping PEPFAR in 2025 is now showing 13-66% declines in oral or injectable drug HIV prevention programs in several countries over the past year. 🤦♀️
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My outstanding postdoc is looking for a research job in Albany, NY. Please forward all leads and RT!
February 3, 2026 at 10:14 PM
My outstanding postdoc is looking for a research job in Albany, NY. Please forward all leads and RT!
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Want to organize a Minisymposium, Workshop, or Special Interest Subgroup?
Now’s your chance to lead at Cell Bio 2026.
🗓 Scientific session proposals due February 22
https://www.ascb.org/cellbio2026/
Now’s your chance to lead at Cell Bio 2026.
🗓 Scientific session proposals due February 22
https://www.ascb.org/cellbio2026/
Cell Bio 2023-An ASCB|EMBO Meeting
Network, learn, and collaborate with top cell biologists from around the globe.
www.ascb.org
February 3, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Want to organize a Minisymposium, Workshop, or Special Interest Subgroup?
Now’s your chance to lead at Cell Bio 2026.
🗓 Scientific session proposals due February 22
https://www.ascb.org/cellbio2026/
Now’s your chance to lead at Cell Bio 2026.
🗓 Scientific session proposals due February 22
https://www.ascb.org/cellbio2026/
Awesome event to support the McArdle Laboratory and cancer research sponsored by the Verona Area High Schools- please share!
The Night of Hope committee is excited to bring back the in-person event this week--February 5th at the Seminole Tap in Fitchburg. There will be a trivia and raffle prizes. All proceeds will benefit the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research. We hope to see you there!
February 2, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Awesome event to support the McArdle Laboratory and cancer research sponsored by the Verona Area High Schools- please share!
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Excited to share our work on #AncientRNA from alcohol-preserved lungs, recovering the oldest human RNA virus genome (an 18th-century rhinovirus). Our study shows that viral RNA remnants persist in centuries-old tissue, opening new ways to study virus evolution and historical disease #Paleovirology🫁🦠
www.biorxiv.org
January 31, 2026 at 12:57 AM
Excited to share our work on #AncientRNA from alcohol-preserved lungs, recovering the oldest human RNA virus genome (an 18th-century rhinovirus). Our study shows that viral RNA remnants persist in centuries-old tissue, opening new ways to study virus evolution and historical disease #Paleovirology🫁🦠
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Curious about cryo-electron tomography but not sure how it fits into your research? This ASCB webinar with Danielle Grotjahn, Ph.D., breaks down what cryo-ET can do, where it shines, and how it works alongside other imaging methods.
Bridging Cellular and Structural Biology Through Cryo-electron Tomography - ASCB
Cellular cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) holds the grand promise of integrating cellular architecture with molecular structure. Yet, for many cell biologists, this method can seem technically…
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January 16, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Curious about cryo-electron tomography but not sure how it fits into your research? This ASCB webinar with Danielle Grotjahn, Ph.D., breaks down what cryo-ET can do, where it shines, and how it works alongside other imaging methods.
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New and Competitive renewals
These are still be made VERY slowly. Only 75 awards have been made through 1/23/26.
These are now from 7 institutes and centers (NIA (45), NINDS (16), NIDDK (5), NIDCR (4), NIDCD (2), NHLBI (1), and NCATS (1)).
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These are still be made VERY slowly. Only 75 awards have been made through 1/23/26.
These are now from 7 institutes and centers (NIA (45), NINDS (16), NIDDK (5), NIDCR (4), NIDCD (2), NHLBI (1), and NCATS (1)).
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January 29, 2026 at 12:11 PM
New and Competitive renewals
These are still be made VERY slowly. Only 75 awards have been made through 1/23/26.
These are now from 7 institutes and centers (NIA (45), NINDS (16), NIDDK (5), NIDCR (4), NIDCD (2), NHLBI (1), and NCATS (1)).
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These are still be made VERY slowly. Only 75 awards have been made through 1/23/26.
These are now from 7 institutes and centers (NIA (45), NINDS (16), NIDDK (5), NIDCR (4), NIDCD (2), NHLBI (1), and NCATS (1)).
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Columbia Selects University of Wisconsin Chancellor as Its President
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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Thanks for everything, Dr. Foege. May we all work to be more diligent stewards of the legacy you left us: to work every day to care for all of our neighbors, present and future, a bit better than we did yesterday.
A public health giant has passed. “Among public health professionals, Dr. Foege was almost without peer… In 2012, President Barack Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest honor given to a civilian.”
William H. Foege, Key Figure in the Eradication of Smallpox, Dies at 89
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Thanks for everything, Dr. Foege. May we all work to be more diligent stewards of the legacy you left us: to work every day to care for all of our neighbors, present and future, a bit better than we did yesterday.
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Query from Slack: Has anyone tried to express HaloTag7 in zebrafish? If yes, could you please share the plasmid(s) with a fellow fish lab? 🙏 #AskZebrafish
January 21, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Query from Slack: Has anyone tried to express HaloTag7 in zebrafish? If yes, could you please share the plasmid(s) with a fellow fish lab? 🙏 #AskZebrafish
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Just spoke to The Hill about how the dismantling of the NIH is impacting science in America. We still face a cliff of unfathomable heights, w easily 1000+ labs poised to close in the next year due to funding ending. A generation of young scientists lost because there is nowhere for them to train.
January 20, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Just spoke to The Hill about how the dismantling of the NIH is impacting science in America. We still face a cliff of unfathomable heights, w easily 1000+ labs poised to close in the next year due to funding ending. A generation of young scientists lost because there is nowhere for them to train.
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Discuss #RNA 3' ends and their regulation at the EMBO Workshop "RNA 3' ends and beyond" in #Oxford, United Kingdom, 7–11 September 2026.
Deadline: 4 May 2026
https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-rna3
#EMBORNA3EndsBeyond #RNAsky #LifeSciences #meeting #EMBOevents 🧪
Deadline: 4 May 2026
https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-rna3
#EMBORNA3EndsBeyond #RNAsky #LifeSciences #meeting #EMBOevents 🧪
January 20, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Discuss #RNA 3' ends and their regulation at the EMBO Workshop "RNA 3' ends and beyond" in #Oxford, United Kingdom, 7–11 September 2026.
Deadline: 4 May 2026
https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-rna3
#EMBORNA3EndsBeyond #RNAsky #LifeSciences #meeting #EMBOevents 🧪
Deadline: 4 May 2026
https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-rna3
#EMBORNA3EndsBeyond #RNAsky #LifeSciences #meeting #EMBOevents 🧪
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🚨Job Alert🚨
Looking for a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to join our multidisciplinary team of scientists. The postdoc will collaborate with world-class structural biologist Peijun Zhang to understand everything about HIV capsids and how they work via host interactions.
Spread the word!
Looking for a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to join our multidisciplinary team of scientists. The postdoc will collaborate with world-class structural biologist Peijun Zhang to understand everything about HIV capsids and how they work via host interactions.
Spread the word!
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Molecular Biology of HIV Infection) - QMUL Jobs
ID: 8551. Title: Postdoctoral Research Associate (Molecular Biology of HIV Infection). Application Deadline:
qmul-jobs.tal.net
January 20, 2026 at 5:50 PM
🚨Job Alert🚨
Looking for a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to join our multidisciplinary team of scientists. The postdoc will collaborate with world-class structural biologist Peijun Zhang to understand everything about HIV capsids and how they work via host interactions.
Spread the word!
Looking for a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to join our multidisciplinary team of scientists. The postdoc will collaborate with world-class structural biologist Peijun Zhang to understand everything about HIV capsids and how they work via host interactions.
Spread the word!
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The conference (agreement between House and Senate) appropriations bill that includes HHS and NIH was released this morning.
www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majorit...
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www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majorit...
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Committee Releases Conferenced Defense, Homeland Security, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, and Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Bi...
United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
www.appropriations.senate.gov
January 20, 2026 at 3:55 PM
The conference (agreement between House and Senate) appropriations bill that includes HHS and NIH was released this morning.
www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majorit...
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www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majorit...
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🚨 Reminder 🚨 Abstract deadline for ASM Microbe meetings, including the Applied and Environmental Microbiology Meeting, is *Jan 21* ! 👇👇
Join us in DC to share your latest research and hear about new discoveries on microbes in water, on land, and every place in between !
asm.org/events/asm-m...
Join us in DC to share your latest research and hear about new discoveries on microbes in water, on land, and every place in between !
asm.org/events/asm-m...
January 18, 2026 at 11:03 PM
🚨 Reminder 🚨 Abstract deadline for ASM Microbe meetings, including the Applied and Environmental Microbiology Meeting, is *Jan 21* ! 👇👇
Join us in DC to share your latest research and hear about new discoveries on microbes in water, on land, and every place in between !
asm.org/events/asm-m...
Join us in DC to share your latest research and hear about new discoveries on microbes in water, on land, and every place in between !
asm.org/events/asm-m...
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"Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a better person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in."
- Martin Luther King, Jr., 1959
- Martin Luther King, Jr., 1959
January 19, 2026 at 1:08 PM
"Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a better person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in."
- Martin Luther King, Jr., 1959
- Martin Luther King, Jr., 1959
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Getting asked about how academics can continue to do science & inspire trainees even in the midst of a continued (escalated) assault on science, reason, truth, & human rights. I don’t have great answers.
I would love to hear from mentors about advice they’re giving to trainees/ colleagues.
I would love to hear from mentors about advice they’re giving to trainees/ colleagues.
January 17, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Getting asked about how academics can continue to do science & inspire trainees even in the midst of a continued (escalated) assault on science, reason, truth, & human rights. I don’t have great answers.
I would love to hear from mentors about advice they’re giving to trainees/ colleagues.
I would love to hear from mentors about advice they’re giving to trainees/ colleagues.
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And my group at the Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases is also hiring: We are looking for a postdoc for our work on mucosal immunity and respiratory viruses!
jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
Post-doctorant-e (6723)
jobs.unige.ch
January 18, 2026 at 10:06 AM
And my group at the Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases is also hiring: We are looking for a postdoc for our work on mucosal immunity and respiratory viruses!
jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
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Job alert! Assistant professor position in the Department of Molecular Genetics (University of Toronto). Amazing department and city. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... Please share.
Assistant Professor - Virology
Assistant Professor - Virology
jobs.utoronto.ca
January 15, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Job alert! Assistant professor position in the Department of Molecular Genetics (University of Toronto). Amazing department and city. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... Please share.
Go Maddi!
So excited to have Madison Bandini from the @natesherer.bsky.social lab present her research at our seminar series today!
January 14, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Go Maddi!
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Latest paper from our lab in collaboration with @sroyyors.bsky.social and Nancy Keller.
Most notably for me, we describe here the first fungal gene required for responses to LCOs (Nod factors) in the fungus Aspergillus fumigatus. More to come on this topic later!
Most notably for me, we describe here the first fungal gene required for responses to LCOs (Nod factors) in the fungus Aspergillus fumigatus. More to come on this topic later!
network-based model of Aspergillus fumigatus elucidates regulators of development and defensive natural products of an opportunistic pathogen
Aspergillus fumigatus is a notorious pathogenic fungus responsible for various harmful, sometimes lethal, diseases known as aspergilloses. Understanding the gene regulatory networks that specify the expression programs underlying this fungus’ diverse phenotypes can shed mechanistic insight into its growth, development, and determinants of pathogenicity. We used eighteen publicly available RNA-seq datasets of Aspergillus fumigatus to construct a comprehensive gene regulatory network resource. Our resource, named GRAsp (Gene Regulation of Aspergillus fumigatus), was able to recapitulate known regulatory pathways such as response to hypoxia, iron and zinc homeostasis, and secondary metabolite synthesis. Further, GRAsp was experimentally validated in two cases: one in which GRAsp accurately identified an uncharacterized transcription factor negatively regulating the production of the virulence factor gliotoxin and another where GRAsp revealed the bZip protein, AtfA, as required for fungal responses to microbial signals known as lipo-chitooligosaccharides. Our work showcases the strength of using network-based approaches to generate new hypotheses about regulatory relationships in Aspergillus fumigatus. We also unveil an online, user-friendly version of GRAsp available to the Aspergillus research community.
sco.lt
January 8, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Latest paper from our lab in collaboration with @sroyyors.bsky.social and Nancy Keller.
Most notably for me, we describe here the first fungal gene required for responses to LCOs (Nod factors) in the fungus Aspergillus fumigatus. More to come on this topic later!
Most notably for me, we describe here the first fungal gene required for responses to LCOs (Nod factors) in the fungus Aspergillus fumigatus. More to come on this topic later!
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I am hiring a staff bioinformatician for my new lab at the University of Utah! Please consider applying if you are on the hunt:
employment.utah.edu/salt-lake-ci...
employment.utah.edu/salt-lake-ci...
Jobs | University of Utah
Founded in 1850, The University of Utah is the flagship institution of higher learning in Utah, and offers over 100 undergraduate and more than 90 graduate degree programs to over 30,000 students. Uni...
employment.utah.edu
January 12, 2026 at 9:04 PM
I am hiring a staff bioinformatician for my new lab at the University of Utah! Please consider applying if you are on the hunt:
employment.utah.edu/salt-lake-ci...
employment.utah.edu/salt-lake-ci...