Virologist, @GlycoGriffith, @johnsonmak.bsky.social, molecular virology, cell biology, and biophysical tools. Co-Editor-in-Chief for Retrovirology
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22 Dec 2024
Principles of CRISPR-Cas13 mismatch intolerance enable selective silencing of point-mutated oncogenic RNA with single-base precision | @Farehlab | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
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12 Nov 2024
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11 Nov 2024
Our new preprint is out: we solved the structures of HIV-1 matrix (MA) from intact virions by SPA. The structure led us to a surprising discovery resolving a long mystery in HIV-1 biology – peptide SP2 regulates the maturation of the HIV-1 matrix. 🧵1/x
tinyurl.com/c7szhtfa
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A B cell screen against endogenous retroviruses identifies glycan-reactive IgM that recognizes a broad array of enveloped viruses | @VirusesImmunity Science Immunology science.org/doi/10.1126/scii…
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6 Nov 2024
🌏 Congratulations to Professor Patrick Reading on his appointment as Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Influenza! Prof Reading replaces Prof Kanta Subbarao, Honorary Fellow at @TheDohertyInst who led the Centre for eight years before taking up a prestigious professorial position in Canada earlier this year. @TheRMH @UniMelbMDHS go.unimelb.edu.au/wf98
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25 Oct 2024
Retrotransposons are co-opted to activate hematopoietic stem cells and erythropoiesis | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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21 Oct 2024
I am absolutely delighted on being elected a member of the US National Academy of Medicine. Grateful to many mentors, partners, collaborators, students and colleagues who have been part of my journey
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21 Oct 2024
We are delighted to share that AHRI director for basic & translational science Prof @Thumbi_Ndungu has been elected as a member of @theNAMedicine
Election is one of the highest honours in the fields of health & medicine.
🎉 Congrats, Thumbi!
More ➡️ ahri.org/prof-thumbi-ndungu-…
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8 Oct 2024
Hot off the press 🔥 Host cell glycosylation selects for infection with CCR5- versus CXCR4-tropic HIV-1 Spearheaded by @HannahItell
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11 Oct 2024
LINE1 modulate human T cell function by regulating protein synthesis during the life span | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
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20 Jun 2024
Wow! Spectacular news for the HIV prevention armamentarium: Lenacapavir showed 100% efficiency...they stopped the blinded phase of the trial to offer it to all participants...aaand it's twice yearly regimen! long way since the muliple horse pills per day!
reuters.com/business/healthc…
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27 Mar 2024
What has 126 figure panels and a completely new antiviral pathway? The @GammonLab's latest paper in @NatureMicrobiol, featuring student Emily Rex's tour de force discovery of the FEAR pathway. Huge congrats to the team! nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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15 Feb 2024
Endogenous feline leukemia virus long terminal repeat integration site diversity is highly variable in related and unrelated domestic cats dlvr.it/T2m6hm
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23 Jan 2024
Researchers solve an 80-year mystery confirming categorically that mosquitoes transmit Mycobacterium ulcerans, the bacteria that causes #BuruliUlcer, from the environment to humans.🦟
doherty.edu.au/news-events/n…
Published in @NatureMicrobiol, led by @tstinear
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14 Dec 2023
Retrovirology is proud to have a new article collection, entitled "HIV infection of uncommon host cells", guest edited by J Victor Garcia-Martinez of University of North Carolina
Read the published articles at:
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30 Nov 2023
BREAKING🔔 A new study from G2P-Japan🇯🇵 is out! The preprint will be out so soon, but we first show our results on the efficacy of XBB.1.5 monovalent vaccine - comparison between infection-naïve and XBB-infected individuals. Please retweet/repost🔥 1/
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4 Nov 2023
POLE3 is a repressor of unintegrated HIV-1 DNA required for efficient virus integration and escape from innate immune sensing | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
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Hydrogel implant rehabilitates muscles through electrical stimulation nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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27 Oct 2023
Selective control of transposable element expression during T cell exhaustion and anti–PD-1 treatment | Science Immunology science.org/doi/10.1126/scii…
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