Professor of Microbial Infection & Immunity @OhioState. Respiratory and cardiac virus infection/immunology research. Views my own. 🦠🫁🫀👨🔬🏳️🌈
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30 Oct 2024
🚨🚨 Our latest paper shows that IFITM3 deficiency lowers the minimum virus dose threshold for influenza and also enhances adaptation of the virus to a new species.🦠🫁 Major implications for preventing new pandemics. 😷 First author @ParkerJDenz 👨🔬nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Mar 13
Influenza virus hitches a cellular ride to the heart: Cell Host & Microbe cell.com/cell-host-microbe/f…
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Mar 13
Excited to share our new review article published today in @mbiojournal discussing the role of viral toxins in pathogenesis and dissemination. We summarize our recent work and current literature on flavivirus NS1, SARS-CoV-2 Spike, CCHFV GP38, and EBOV GP. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
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Feb 16
🎉Congratulations to #mBio Editors Jorge Vidal (@JorgeEVidal1), Jacob Yount (@YountLabOSU), and Birgit Scharf (of @VT_Biology) and Senior Editor Tom Coenye (of @LPM_UGent) on their election to the American Academy of Microbiology! 👏 asm.social/2OC
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Jan 29
IFITM3 deficiency drives SARS-CoV-2 adaptation while preserving variant-specific traits @NatureComms @YountLabOSU @OhioState @adforu @ParkerJDenz
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19 Feb 2025
Please sign science community letter to congressional appropriations leaders requesting 1) a funding boost for NIH; and 2) hindrance to changes to indirect cost reimbursement. deadline: noon ET tomorrow
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12 Feb 2025
mGems are short, thought-provoking reviews on high-interest topics in microbiology. Read the first 3 papers in this series: on #H5N1, viral entry, and the damage-response framework. #mbio journals.asm.org/journal/mbi…
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13 Feb 2025
A great new mBio mGem from @Lakdawala_Lab on transmission and exposure risks of dairy cow H5N1 influenza virus journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
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29 Jan 2025
🚨Our new preprint! IFITM3 KO mice accelerated SARS-CoV-2 Beta & Omicron adaptation, preserving human-relevant traits & enabling comparative pathology/transcriptomics in mice. 🫁🦠🧬🥼 With @ParkerJDenz @adforu and team. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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30 Sep 2024
The OSU Department of Molecular Genetics is hiring! We are a welcoming community studying a wide range of genetic process with support from state of the art core facilities. Check us out! osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OS…
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20 Sep 2024
We are currently looking for an Assistant Professor of Microbiology, within the area of microbial cell biology!
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21 Sep 2024
you read this and consider submitting a minireview (or other article types) to mBio. If you have an idea, please contact me, or @YountLabOSU or @marclrodrigues. Please re-post.
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11 Sep 2024
Paper out! Postdoc @matt_hackbart characterized non-standard viral genomes generated during arenavirus infections and identified prominent S RNA intergenic region deletions that can interfere with expression of the LCMV glycoprotein| mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
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20 Jul 2024
I am #hiring a Research Scientist with bioinformatic skillsets. If you or someone you know is interested in translational / clinical genomic research, and want to make a meaningful impact for children with rare diseases and cancers, let me know!
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18 Jul 2024
Prospective power analysis is hilarious because your replace an arbitrary guess of sample size with an arbitrary guess of the effect size you’ve yet to measure, do a touch of arithmetic, and suddenly it’s considered rigorous
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3 Jul 2024
New work from Jianrong Li's lab at OSU showing three SARS-CoV-2 spike protein variants delivered intranasally by measles and mumps vaccines are broadly protective. nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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2 Jul 2024
What software is everyone using for generating high res publication figures? We recently made the switch from Powerpoint to Illustrator, but the university is canceling our Adobe subscription and a monthly fee for everyone in the lab isn't gonna work. 🥲😡😩
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25 Jun 2024
Thanks to everyone who came to my talk and for all the questions/suggestions!! Here’s a photo of me and THE IFITM experts @YountLabOSU @compton_lab #ASV2024
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25 Jun 2024
So very happy to have had a chance to spend time with current and past Lopez Lab trainees @YountLabOSU @geneman930 @immunuelle @yansun26 attending #ASV2024 and to meet some of their trainees!
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