Super proud of The Viral and Vaccine Immunology Lab members Thu Do and Dr Lara Schwab on 2 great talks on Influenza B antigenic evolution ar ESWI meeting in Valencia!

B/Yamagata #flu viruses disappeared in March 2020, seemingly driven into extinction by the Covid-19 pandemic. An expert panel that advises World Health Organization (WHO) on flu shot composition said today it's time to take the B/Yam viruses component out of flu shots. statnews.com/2023/09/29/who…

Looking to contribute to #AMR #research? We are recruiting several new roles to aid in delivering our CARB-X funded therapeutics project. We are looking for: Project Manager (jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/914…) Technical Officer (jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/914…) Postdoctoral roles coming soon.

Still looking for postdocs IRIM! We actually have 3 opened positions, 2 for molecular virologists and 1 for a bioinfomatician with wet lab experience! #ILoveVirology Université de Montpellier Please RT

Congratulations to Professor Felicity Baker, Associate Professor Brett Manley, Associate Professor David McInnis and Dr Jennifer Juno on being awarded the Marles and Woodward Medals. → go.unimelb.edu.au/d4gs

We are hiring 👇 looking for a #postdoc with expertise in # humanImmunology #Tcells #cytometry #cytof #influenza #vaccine

I am recruiting! Please come join me - looking for an excellent research officer with immunology and viral expertise w a genomics slant 👇 jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/916…

Is eradication of influenza B viruses possible? Marios Koutsakos, Steve Rockman and I wrote a little commentary about it in The Lancet Infectious Diseases thelancet.com/journals/lanin…

My friend and Twitter absentee Ali Ellebedy asked me to share this here. A great conference on B cell function and dysfunction that he is co-organizing. keystonesymposia.org/conferences/co… And it is in Monte Carlo! Casinos, F1 races, molecular simulations and....B-cells!

New paper from The Viral and Vaccine Immunology Lab describing an upper-respiratory tract infection mouse model for FluB! Dissemination of influenza B virus to the lower respiratory tract of mice is restricted by the interferon response | Journal of Virology journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jv…

New research finds exposure to influenza B during childhood impacts how well our immune system can recognise new variants and protect against them. Published in Nature Microbiology Learn more 👉 doherty.edu.au/news-events/ne… Marios Koutsakos UniMelb MDHS The Royal Melbourne Hospital

Triton-X 100-treated virus-based ELLA demonstrates discordant antigenic evolution of influenza B virus haemagglutinin and neuraminidase biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

Great Nature Immunology commentary by Isaac Chow & Sook-San Wong The HKU-Pasteur Research Pole on our recent FluB imprinting Nature Microbiology paper! The Viral and Vaccine Immunology Lab Doherty Institute nature.com/articles/s4159…