Ismael
@ismail-hayani.bsky.social
a PhD student obsessed with viruses. Baptized in the name of science 🧪, stocks 🐂 and the holy brew☕.
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Lasers, lasers, lasers, lasers 🎵
🎉 Congratulations to Arfor Houwman for winning the #physics category and the extra AI/quantum prize in this year's #DanceYourPhD competition.
Watch the entire video and learn more about the other category winners: scim.ag/4lSpjCl
🎉 Congratulations to Arfor Houwman for winning the #physics category and the extra AI/quantum prize in this year's #DanceYourPhD competition.
Watch the entire video and learn more about the other category winners: scim.ag/4lSpjCl
May 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Lasers, lasers, lasers, lasers 🎵
🎉 Congratulations to Arfor Houwman for winning the #physics category and the extra AI/quantum prize in this year's #DanceYourPhD competition.
Watch the entire video and learn more about the other category winners: scim.ag/4lSpjCl
🎉 Congratulations to Arfor Houwman for winning the #physics category and the extra AI/quantum prize in this year's #DanceYourPhD competition.
Watch the entire video and learn more about the other category winners: scim.ag/4lSpjCl
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Labs at CDC investigating STD and hepatitis outbreaks have now been cut, as part of Secy Kennedy's layoffs
Specimens were still arriving from state health departments, with no one left on job from labs to handle them
"The outbreak detection is gone"
www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
Specimens were still arriving from state health departments, with no one left on job from labs to handle them
"The outbreak detection is gone"
www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
RFK Jr. cuts CDC labs investigating outbreaks of STDs and hepatitis
CDC officials are warning of delays and disruptions due to cuts to laboratory staff.
www.cbsnews.com
April 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Labs at CDC investigating STD and hepatitis outbreaks have now been cut, as part of Secy Kennedy's layoffs
Specimens were still arriving from state health departments, with no one left on job from labs to handle them
"The outbreak detection is gone"
www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
Specimens were still arriving from state health departments, with no one left on job from labs to handle them
"The outbreak detection is gone"
www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
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Finally, Ignacio used cryoEM to obtain the structure of the PHEV spike ectodomain. This revealed that in contrast to all other embecovirus spikes structurally resolved (OC43, HKU1, MHV), the PHEV spike spontaneously adopts open conformations, allowing interaction with DPEP1.
January 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Finally, Ignacio used cryoEM to obtain the structure of the PHEV spike ectodomain. This revealed that in contrast to all other embecovirus spikes structurally resolved (OC43, HKU1, MHV), the PHEV spike spontaneously adopts open conformations, allowing interaction with DPEP1.
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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
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:
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Recently very good reviews provided elaborate overviews of different anti-defence mechansms were published, so that is not the focus of this review.
You can find a selection here:
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.cell.com/trends/micro...
You can find a selection here:
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.cell.com/trends/micro...
January 7, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Recently very good reviews provided elaborate overviews of different anti-defence mechansms were published, so that is not the focus of this review.
You can find a selection here:
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.cell.com/trends/micro...
You can find a selection here:
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.cell.com/trends/micro...
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Distribution of bacterial DNA repair proteins and their co-occurrence with immune systems (cell.com/cell-reports...
It started with a simple question: Are certain prokaryotic immune systems always (or never) encoded with specific DNA repair proteins?...
It started with a simple question: Are certain prokaryotic immune systems always (or never) encoded with specific DNA repair proteins?...
January 7, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Distribution of bacterial DNA repair proteins and their co-occurrence with immune systems (cell.com/cell-reports...
It started with a simple question: Are certain prokaryotic immune systems always (or never) encoded with specific DNA repair proteins?...
It started with a simple question: Are certain prokaryotic immune systems always (or never) encoded with specific DNA repair proteins?...