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🫁🦠

Wanting to do some paleovirology of your own? We recently published HI-FEVER, enabling users to run their own fast searches for endogenous viral elements.

Huge thanks to @humanceae.bsky.social, @emma-harding.bsky.social, José Gabriel and Cormac.

@biology.ox.ac.uk

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Two ancient humans, including famed ‘Iceman,’ had cancer-causing virus
#HPV #paleovirology
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We hope this helps others working on retroviral domains, paleovirology, or TE functional genomics.

🙏 Thanks to @cnag-eu.bsky.social and @annaesteveco.bsky.social for support.

We welcome feedback, questions, or collaborations as we submit to a peer-reviewed journal.

During his 36-year career at @fredhutch.bsky.social, Dr. Michael Emerman made fundamental discoveries about #HIV.

🍾 Dr. Emerman made a lasting impact in #immunology, including co-pioneering the field of paleovirology, and we offer a huge congratulations on his retirement! bit.ly/3GrwEZQ

That was a lovely tribute - had to admit I hadn't realised he was quite that old (or maybe its just that I'm getting old...) might be a few people dispute the "founder of paleovirology" title though!

During his 36-year career at Fred Hutch, @memerman.bsky.social made fundamental discoveries about HIV, co-founded the field of paleovirology and mentored generations of scientists. bit.ly/4nMqOmr @hutchbasicsci.bsky.social

Next phase of my career appears to be paleovirology. Okay.

Our latest study uncovers a viral domestication event from ~75 million years ago, where viral genes enable parasitoid wasps to protect their eggs they lay within dipteran hosts!

🐝->🥚+🦠->🪰☠️ ->🐝🦠

Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

#paleovirology #parasitoid #evolution

I'd like to offer a late but sincere thanks to Rob Gifford, one of the pioneers of paleovirology, who visited Vilnius University's Life Sciences Center and gave a seminar last week.
Thanks for the talk and the discussions. I hope to see you on Bluesky in the near future!

⏰last chance to apply for a postdoc in paleovirology this week; deadline on friday. Do get in touch on [email protected] if you would like to discuss informally.

I want my next PhD to be in paleovirology!

Postdoctoral position in paleovirology at @oxfordbiology.bsky.social. Feel free to get in touch at [email protected].

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Looking to do a postdoc in paleovirology? 🦠🦕🌴 Get in touch, more info soon!

The department of Biology at the University of Oxford is advertising DPhil (i.e. PhD) projects. These are not directly funded but a number of studentships are awarded via a competitive process. Want to do a PhD in paleovirology? Get in touch.

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Hello 👋 nice to meet you ✨ paleovirology sounds fascinating!

"Paleovirology: inferring viral evolution from host genome sequence data" http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/cgi/content/long/368/1626/20120493