Coming soon: Our paper in collaboration with Adriana Weinberg's UCD team, which compares initial memory subset and longevity of CD4 T cells recruited by different shingles vaccines. Reaching into naive populations may explain long-lived responses. jci.org/articles/view/…

Interested in microglia and neuroinflammation? ⁦ ⁦⁦Stefanie Fruhwürth⁩ is looking for a postdoc! web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/…

Want to joint the team of Mthilde Richard, associated professor in our lab? Here is your chance werkenbijerasmusmc.nl/en/vacancy/952…

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A new, exciting connection underlying severe VZV: Impaired STING Activation Due to a Variant in the E3 Ubiquitin Ligase AMFR in a Patient with Severe VZV Infection a… pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38277122/

I'm looking forward to reading this exciting new paper on circRNAs and herpesvirus infection! Congrats Sarah Dremel! Interferon induced circRNAs escape herpesvirus host shutoff and suppress lytic infection pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38263330/

Cool work on Herpes simplex virus glycoprotein G from Guorong Sun and Abel Viejo Borbolla with contributions from Emanuel Wyler, markuslandthaler and us Serrero Manutea Exzellenzcluster RESIST Hannover Medical School.

High-pathogenic avian #influenza #H5N1 has been confirmed in the gentoo #penguin in the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) and suspected (but not yet confirmed) in the king penguin in South Georgia (Islas Georgia del Sur). #Antarctica Details: scar.org/library-data/a…

Human cytomegalovirus modulates mTORC1 to redirect mRNA translation within quiescently infected monocytes journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jv…

Why does measles keep rearing its ugly head? The answer is simple. A 🧵, also at virology blog. 1/ virology.ws/2024/02/01/let…

Am sharing this to provide a profile of measles impact. I get all these responses saying it is a trivial disease. The difficulty here: what do you consider to be trivial. And do you then accept the gamble: if my kid ends up to be the one with encephalitis, tough luck

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence… In collaboration with computational biology experts Pavitra Roychoudhury and Dan Depledge we conclude that the claim that HSV establishes latency in immune cells is not supported by the underlying datasets journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jv…

A shoutout to fellow X-ers Pavitra Roychoudhury, Werner Ouwendijk, and Georges M. Verjans and all the other non-X co-authors. For many reasons this has been a challenging piece of work but we consider it viral to correct the scientific record on this claim.

A big thanks to our own Raoul J de Groot🥒&🌶 and co-organisers for another excellent edition of the #DAVS symposium! See you all again next year 👋🏻

Wetenschappers van het Erasmus MC gaan naar Antarctica voor onderzoek naar de vogelgriep. Voordat de zuidpoolwinter intreedt, willen ze de impact op wilde vogels en zeezoogdieren vaststellen. nos.nl/artikel/251271…

It's time for #MicrobeoftheMonth! Can you guess who I am? 1) I only naturally infect humans. 2) I target T cells, skin cells and ganglia. 3) I cause a rash. Think you know? Comment below!

A postdoc position is available in our lab to work on the impact of herpes simplex virus infection on the nervous system. Great opportunity to gain expertise in different neuronal models of infection and an animal model of HSV neurogenerative disease.

'Laat wetenschap werken': een mooie campagne van NFU. Wetenschappers slaan hun handen ineen door het toekomstige kabinet te laten zien dat hun onderzoek onmisbaar is om Nederland vooruit te helpen. NWO sluit graag aan bij deze campagne: nwo.nl/nieuws/campagn…

A hard question and a very fun project with Eddie Holmes and Florian Krammer. #LoveVirology. Lots of great stuff in here…what did we miss? Virology—The next fifty years: Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…