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BatResearch - A.Prof. Aaron Irving @batresearch.bsky.social · Aug 8

Most entertaining talk so far at #IBRC2025 by Fauzan.

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Arinjay Banerjee @banerjeelab.ca · Aug 8

After 11 years, Aaron and I tag teamed a joint seminar on Genotype to Phenotype: Bat immunity at #IBRC2025

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BatResearch - A.Prof. Aaron Irving @batresearch.bsky.social · Aug 7

Day 4 #IBRC2025

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BatResearch - A.Prof. Aaron Irving @batresearch.bsky.social · Jul 19

If you don't catch me at #SMBE2025 in Beijing on Tuesday maybe you'll catch me at #UQ or #IBRC2025 in Cairns, Australia the week after! IBRC made pretty promo pictures for each talk.

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Thelonevirologist @thelonevirologist.bsky.social · Jul 16

Nipah virus infects another in India's hot spot www.cidrap.umn.edu/nipah/nipah-...

Nipah virus infects another in India's hot spot

The man's illness was found during monitoring contacts of his father who recently died from a Nipah infection.

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BatResearch - A.Prof. Aaron Irving @batresearch.bsky.social · Jul 14

While I've been at talks all morning, #ASV2025 just officially started, with an inspiring virologist: Charlie Rice. #Virology

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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · Jul 2

#SMBE2025 Symposium 20: Thematic symposium: evolution of immunity

🔗 smbe2025.scimeeting.cn/en/web/program/25070

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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · Jun 25

Yesterday #CDC posted an extraordinary (also thorough & very useful) pre-buttal of claims about thimerosal in flu vaccines that will be made tomorrow at #ACIP. #HHS made CDC take it down.
Never a dull moment these days.
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CDC vaccine advisory committee to review long-approved immunizations

A leader of the CDC's reconstituted vaccine advisory committee said the panel would start a review of long-approved shots.

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BatResearch - A.Prof. Aaron Irving @batresearch.bsky.social · Jun 20

#postdoc #virology #immunology #pandemicpreparedness #comparativeimmunology

BatResearch - A.Prof. Aaron Irving @batresearch.bsky.social · Jun 20

Paul and Doug worked on this for a long time. Good to see it out!

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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · Jun 11

Interferon-epsilon, an estrogen-induced type I interferon, is uniquely exploited by Neisseria gonorrhoeae via effects on sialic acid metabolism
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Interferon-epsilon, an estrogen-induced type I interferon, is uniquely exploited by Neisseria gonorrhoeae via effects on sialic acid metabolism

Kurt-Jones et al. examined IFN-ε, a hormone-responsive type I IFN expressed by genital epithelial cells, during Neisseria gonorrhoeae (Ng) infection. They demonstrated that mice lacking IFN-ε exhibit ...

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BatResearch - A.Prof. Aaron Irving @batresearch.bsky.social · Jun 6

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Breakthrough in search for HIV cure leaves researchers ‘overwhelmed’

Exclusive: Melbourne team demonstrates way to make the virus visible within white blood cells, paving the way to fully clear it from the body

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BatResearch - A.Prof. Aaron Irving @batresearch.bsky.social · May 30

A crazy week. One MSc student successfully defended. A PhD TAC agrees the student can submit. AI (student)-assignmemts marked and the Center for Infection, Immunity & Cancer symposia successfully concluded..

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Joe McKellar @viroscope.bsky.social · May 10

⚠️ Discovery of a new mode of viral transmission:

Deltaviruses spread through a viral Trojan Horse !

These viral satellites that do not encode their own glycoproteins, are in fact physically encapsulated within their helper virus particles!

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BatResearch - A.Prof. Aaron Irving @batresearch.bsky.social · May 12

#CSHA #Suzhou #CellDeathandInnateImmunity

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Eddie Holmes @eddieholmes.bsky.social · Apr 8

Recombination between positive-sense and negative-sense RNA viruses: journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

A positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus acquired a negative-sense open reading frame through recombination

Author summary The discovery of brine shrimp virga-like virus 1 (BSVV1) challenges the conventional view that positive- and negative-sense RNA viruses are evolutionarily independent. Through genomic a...

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Vasilakis Lab @vasilakislab.bsky.social · Apr 7

We look forward seeing you tomorrow for Prof. Sampson's webinar on "Developing Research Capacity inAfrica: Focus on Pathogen Bioinformatics and Vaccine Development". Register: www.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi.... @sbvirologia.bsky.social @amersocvirology.bsky.social @mauriciolnogueira.bsky.social

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Arinjay Banerjee @banerjeelab.ca · Mar 31

CONFERENCE announcement: Two upcoming bat meetings. Come join us to learn all things about bats in Chicago and Cairns.

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Thelonevirologist @thelonevirologist.bsky.social · Mar 21

Measles cases top 350 in Texas-New Mexico measles outbreak www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/meas...

Measles cases top 350 in Texas-New Mexico measles outbreak

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BatResearch - A.Prof. Aaron Irving @batresearch.bsky.social · Feb 19

Postdocs are not enrolled in a degree, they earn a salary. They are 'staff' too. The postdoc layoffs were not mentioned in this article.

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BatResearch - A.Prof. Aaron Irving @batresearch.bsky.social · Feb 11

If you want an unbiased tear-apart of our latest nature paper - check out @microbetv.bsky.social
's views on TWIV. TWiV 1191: The pandemic duo microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-11... (starting at 49:53)

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Donate to MicrobeTV Featured Video TWiV reviews freezes and unfreezes of US government grants, how prior COVID-19 vaccination prevents over-reaction of the innate immune response during infections, an...

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BatResearch - A.Prof. Aaron Irving @batresearch.bsky.social · Feb 8

Aus and China also run on fixed rates for indirect costs. I feel the US will need some sort of city-loading but a balanced fixed rate would suffice.

BatResearch - A.Prof. Aaron Irving @batresearch.bsky.social · Feb 8

retrospectively without any leadin. People will lose jobs over this. Struggling departments will shut. A long term plan to reduce the indirect costs to a national, acceptable, standard would work. Being gungho will destroy academia in the US.

BatResearch - A.Prof. Aaron Irving @batresearch.bsky.social · Feb 8

Never having worked in the US, I never realized that indirect costs could escalate to 70% of direct costs. Personally I think this is insane and a gross miss-appropriation of funding by administration. That being said, 15% is not enough by any means. It certainly cannot be implemented

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BatResearch - A.Prof. Aaron Irving @batresearch.bsky.social · Jan 30

The main article itself is openaccess rdcu.be/d7W2Y

Bat genomes illuminate adaptations to viral tolerance and disease resistance

Nature - A systematic analysis of 115 mammalian genomes, including 10 new bat genomes, reveals prevalent positive selection in immune genes in bats and shows key adaptations in the antiviral gene...

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