DAY 1: The 2026 #WelchX Collaboration Retreat has officially begun! We welcomed 24 mid-career faculty from across Texas to a welcome reception and dinner last night at The Post Oak Hotel in Houston. Over the next few days, participants will build new connections, explore bold scientific ideas, and form collaborative teams. Our goal is to create an environment where innovative research partnerships can flourish. At the conclusion of the retreat, five winning teams will each receive $100,000 in research funding to pursue their collaborative projects. Stay tuned for highlights and discoveries from the week ahead! #WelchFoundation #WelchX

DAY 2: The #WelchX Collaboration Retreat is in full swing with faculty introduction talks, team-building activities, and collaborative ideation exercises. By bringing together researchers across diverse fields, institutions, and career stages, we aim to spark unexpected connections and cultivate bold new scientific collaborations. We’re excited to see what innovative chemistry emerges over the next few days. #WelchFoundation #WelchX

We are hiring postdoc researchers for my lab at UT Southwestern Medical Center @UTSW. Join us to study transcription and regulation in pathogenic bacteria using multidisciplinary approaches. Please RT. Thank you! #newPI

Incredibly proud of my former @UTSWGradSchool student Christina Zarek and her paper in @PLOSPathogens!!! There is still so much to learn about the biology of #coinfection with #herpesvirus and #parasites!

A postdoc position in my lab @utswimmuno is still available. This is for a joint project with Dr. Shin Yamazaki @UTSWNeurosci. We are in the UT Southwestern Circadian Clock research community led by Dr. Joseph Takahashi (@CircadianClocks). #GutClock. srbr.org/job/postdoctoral-tr…

I am honored to join the Pew community @pewtrusts @pewhealth as a 2023 Biomedical Scholar! Thank you to my team and mentors @LHooperLab, @CircadianClocks, @BillDauerNeuro, and Vassilis Pachnis @TheCrick pewtrusts.org/en/projects/pe… @UTSWNews @UTSWBrain

Happening today at noon!!

Congratulations to Drs. Russell DeBose-Boyd and Duojia Pan on their selection to the @theNASciences @UTSWGradSchool ⁦@UTSWNews⁩ nasonline.org/news-and-multi…

Check out this cool paper from @TiffanyReeseLab and @HancksLab ! Fun to see the story develop over time and glad to play a small part in it!

Beth Levine, MD was an internationally renowned pioneer in autophagy. To continue her legacy; UT Southwestern has introduced the Beth Levine, M.D Prize in Autophagy to be awarded to exceptional researchers and scientists who have made significant contributions to the field of

Congratulations to Emily on her manuscript describing a new antiviral pathway and its antagonism by poxvirus A51R proteins! Check out the preprint on biorxiv: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor…

How is norovirus infection in tuft cells controlled? A collaboration work with @WilenLab shows short-lived tuft cells are the reservoir. Tuft-cell-intrinsic extrinsic IFN-I & -III control norovirus in the gut. Now published in @CellReports

Tuft-cell-intrinsic and -extrinsic mediators of norovirus tropism regulate viral immunity: Cell Reports cell.com/cell-reports/fullte…

Please RT. We are recruiting at the PI level. The department is in the process of being renamed Lab of Neurological Infections & Immunity. All CNS pathologic insult (virus, prion, bacteria) of interest! niaid.nih.gov/about/lpvd-inv…

Congratulations to our Immunology Department Chair @LHooperLab for election to National Academy of Medicine! @theNAMedicine @UTSWNews @utswimmuno 🎉🎊🍾🥂

For anyone interested in #norovirus or biology of the murine norovirus receptor CD300lf, we deposited our CD300lf F/F mice @jacksonlab jax.org/strain/037039 They are available on live repository until 10/27 and then get frozen and $.@OrchardLab_Rob

TRIM7 Act 2: Last year, postdoc @Wenchun_Fan published that TRIM7 is an antiviral protein that inhibits human enterviruses (PMID: 34062120). In an interesting twist, he now shows that that 3C protease from certain enteroviruses can cleave TRIM7. (1/4) journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…

New faculty position opportunity for the Division of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine in the Department of Pathology and Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine! @wusm_pathology facultyopportunities.wustl.e…

✨Speaker Announcement!!✨ The Department of Immunology at #UTSW will be hosting Dr. Elizabeth Johnson, PhD., Assistant Professor, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University , TOMORROW as part of their Excellence in Immunology Seminar Series.

I’m looking for a PhD-level scientist to join my research group @Vir_Biotech. We work on exploratory projects in molecular virology and virus-host interactions across multiple viral pathogens with the goal to uncover new therapeutic approaches. jobs.lever.co/vir/1bbc8473-b…