We are excited to share two preprints reporting a mosquito-specific receptor for chikungunya virus and related alphaviruses! 🤩biorxiv.org/content/10.648…
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@HarvardMicro @VirologyHarvard @hhmi_science

So excited to share our work @biorxivpreprint, which shows the ribosome structure of the tick-borne pathogen Babesia divergens! Congratulations @CristinaGVx @HarvardMicro and @HC2EM
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Joel Tan @JoelMJTan discovers a DNA molecular tripwire that guards against viral infection. New research from the Kranzusch (kranzuschlab.med.harvard.edu) and Jost @MarcoJost_ labs in HMS Micro @Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

Research from Renee Chang @reneechang explains how viruses disrupt His-ADPR immune signaling. Kranzusch lab (kranzuschlab.med.harvard.edu), @SorekLab, @eigie111, @Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

Our study on the molecular basis of shifts in receptor recognition by western equine encephalitis virus (WEEV) in the past century, led by @xiaoyi_fann and @wanyuviridae, is online! @HmsMicro @VirologyHarvard 🥳🥳🥳cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

New research on the deadly Nipah virus provides a detailed three-dimensional picture of the virus’s polymerase and its key features bit.ly/3E2WgKJ

What a pleasure to see our bacterial-MERFISH work out in @ScienceMagazine this week! Congratulations to the talented team that led this effort--Ari, Yuanyou, and Nana! science.org/doi/abs/10.112….

Excited to share our @biorxivpreprint led by @xiaoyi_fann and @wanyuviridae exploring how binding of western equine encephalitis virus (WEEV) to its cellular receptors evolved over the past century 🤩 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… @HarvardMicro

Perhaps one of the coolest experiences I've had as a scientist to hear @abrahamlabhms @wanyuviridae paper on western equine encephalitis virus featured on TWiV! "Heartbeats and hoofbeats" Thank you at @profvrr! (starts at about 51 min) ❤️🐎@HarvardMicro
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A new paper from Sam Hobbs in the Kranzusch lab (kranzuschlab.med.harvard.edu) demonstrates that animal and bacterial viruses use conserved strategies to defeat host antiviral immunity @CellCellPress
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Sharing a piece on Triple E🦟. I am fascinated by this deadly virus so we do a lot of work on it in the lab. It's quite a nasty bug - for those who live in regions with activity, need to take appropriate precautions re: mosquitoes. @HarvardMicro

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Excited to share our most recent paper at @CellCellPress in which we used #CryoEM to study conformational dynamics as a determinant of drug selectivity and resistance for the herpes simplex virus DNA polymerase. cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Owen & Bartlett labs est. Aug 2024! Grateful to everyone at the Wadsworth Center for the incredibly warm welcome on day 1

AND Also! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…
#Quorumsensing #MvfR #pseudomonasaeruginosa #infection @MGH_RI @MGHSurgery@HarvardMicro

We might have been silent, but @RahmeLab has been very productive, making sure we also had a lot of fun! @eLife: doi.org/10.7554/eLife.… #Quorumsensing #MvfR #pseudomonasaeruginosa #infection @MGH_RI @MGHSurgery @HarvardMicro

Evolution Tamed Once-Deadly Western Equine Encephalitis. Should We Still Worry? HMS News and Research discusses @abrahamlabhms newest Nature paper: "Shifts in receptors during submergence of an encephalitic arbovirus"
Read more here: hms.harvard.edu/news/evolution…

Our pre print is out on discovery and quantification of long distance RNA:RNA interactions. Try our new software SEISMIC -amazing work by @enzyMatty , super flexible , accurate , and fast for clustering alternative RNA structures and more !! #viruses biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share our new study @Nature led by @VirologyHarvard grad student Wanyu @wanyuviridae that explores shifted receptor usage by a unique “submerging” arbovirus, western equine encephalitis virus (WEEV).🤩 nature.com/articles/s4158…

Congratulations Jonathan Abraham, named a 2024 HHMI Investigator! Joining 25 top scientists, guided by the principle of investing in “people, not projects,” HHMI provides Investigators with the time and resources they need to go where their science leads: hhmi.news/4df2eVs

Our work on mitochondria in collaboration with @Antonio41949078 @FontanesiFlavia online today 🎉