Congrats to Emily on her paper in Nature Microbiology describing a new antiviral pathway we call “FEAR”! rdcu.be/dCC3T

Congrats everyone on the lab's new paper illustrating how bacterial effectors can be used as tools to reveal both broadly-acting and virus-specific host antiviral factors: mdpi.com/3904848

Thanks to all who helped our lab raise money for the @AmericanCancer Making Strides Event to fight breast cancer! Our lab is proud to be supported by @AmericanCancer

Our new manuscript is out @jvirology where we review IFN-independent antiviral responses! Mammalian innate antiviral defenses: beyond interferon | Journal of Virology journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…

Our new manuscript is out in @PLOSPathogens ! We used bacterial effector proteins as tools to fish out host RNF214 proteins as novel antiviral factors. Congrats @Aaron_Embry_ on another great story! journals.plos.org/plospathog…

Earlier this week, Seth Lederman, M.D., Chief Executive Officer of $TNXP, presented data on the Company's potential #mpox vaccine at the @UTSWMedCenter Symposium Microbiology Seminar Series, held in Dallas, Tex. The presentation, titled “Resurrecting Dr. Edward Jenner’s 1798 Horsepox Vaccine to Protect Against Mpox and Smallpox,” focused on recent TNX-801 findings that are consistent with mucosal immunity and suggest the ability to block forward transmission, similar to Dr. Edward Jenner’s vaccine, which eradicated smallpox and kept #mpox out of the human population.

New preprint from Gammon Lab @UTSWMedCenter where bacterial effectors reveal a role for mammalian RNF214 proteins in antiviral immunity in bats and humans! Great collab with the Alto Lab! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Good luck to Don at UC Davis where he will present our lab's work on the newly-discovered FEAR pathway! health.ucdavis.edu/medmicro/…

New preprint from the Gammon Lab @UTSWMedCenter describing the activation and evasion of the FEAR Pathway by RNA Viruses. Viruses still teaching us new tricks! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Come be my colleague! I've been very, very happy at UTSW Micro. Supportive environment. Strong ambition. Strong empathy. Excellent resources. Check out Julie's thread for some statistics, financial incentives, and (bonus) grant-writing tips!

What I don't get about academia is the chronic lack of celebration. It is hard to get & maintain grant funding, hard to get papers accepted without Faustian bargains, hard to be a great mentor, & hard to maximize trainee success. All of it is hard. We should celebrate everything.

Congrats to our STARS student Daniel Deng on a fantastic summer of research! Clearly a rising star! We hope to see him back next year! Thanks to @Aaron_Embry_ for mentoring Daniel!

Good times at Medieval Times with @GammonLab and friends! And if anyone was wondering, yes, the red knight did go down...

My review about “The HIV-1 transcriptional program” for the @JMolBiol special issue on transcription elongation is now out: doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2024.1…. I provide a 4 decades historical recount from mechanistic insights to implications for viral latency and cure. Thanks @NIAID!

Congrats to Dahee on her new paper from @GammonLab #UTSW showing Pox A51R proteins regulate microtubule-dependent transport by Kinesin-1 motors! Thanks to @kjverhey1 for the nice collaboration! mdpi.com/1422-0067/25/14/782…

Great fun with @Gammonlab and @CaoXinyun lab teaming up at Micro “Faculty Feud”! Proud of everyone for bringing home the championship belt! #UTSW

Good luck to Don presenting at #ASV2024 on Tuesday, June 25 in the Poxvirus Workshop (W18-2)! He will be presenting work from our post-doc Dahee Seo in the @GammonLab on how poxvirus A51R proteins inhibit a cell-intrinsic immune response in macrophages!

Just finished a great meeting in Heidelberg on Innate Immunity in Host-Pathogen Interactions! Great job by @Aaron_Embry_ on presenting our work on how bacterial effectors can break virus restriction! #EESImmunity

Congrats to Emily Rex @UTSW on her great talk discussing newly discovered viral inhibitors of the FEAR pathway! Way to make @Gammonlab proud! #EESImmunity

Just heard a fantastic talk by Rechel Geiger @fredhutch from @HarmitMalik and Michael Emerman labs on antiviral gene evolution! #EESImmunity

Looking forward to attending the Innate Immunity in host-pathogen interactions" meeting today @embl #EESImmunity Good luck to @Aaron_Embry_ and Emily Rex who are presenting the Gammon Lab's work on bacterial effectors and the newly discovered FEAR pathway!