Studying past, present, and potentially future host-viral interactions 💀👨🏻💻👨🏻🔬🦠 #loveVirology #LatinxInSTEM 🇲🇽 | Assistant professor
@fredhutch.bsky.social - https://research.fredhutch.org/blanco-melo/
Daniel Blanco-Melo
Studying immune gene evolution is rarely about a lack of data, it’s about keeping data, biology, and interpretation aligned as everything changes.
New GLUE Genomics post: from viral genomes to immune genes, using interferon lambda as a case study.
gluetools.substack.com/p/glue-resou...
Actively looking for a postdoc interested in host-virus evolution. Please apply to the #MahanFellowship This fellowship provides early career scientists with the opportunity to join a Fred Hutch CompBio lab (like ours!). If interested please contact me to coordinate proposal and apply by Dec 05 2025
HVTN 25th Anniversary:
The journey to an HIV vaccine 💪🏼
Full movie of this incredible 25yr effort 👇🏼
www.helpendhiv.org/25-anniversa...
Comparative Genomics Across the Host–Pathogen Interface
Standing ovation to @eeb222.bsky.social for powering through the many intricacies of this project. And huge thanks to @paleogenomics.bsky.social @jonploug.bsky.social JT McCrone, Mike Rutherford, Kathryn Kistler, Ale Castillo, Isabelle Du Plessis, @lauracarrillo.bsky.social & Ting Liu #ThankYouTeam💪🏼
Robert J. Gifford
We mourn the passing of Nobel laureate David Baltimore, a towering figure in molecular biology and virology, and a pioneer and founder of ASV. His discoveries transformed science and medicine, and his mentorship inspired generations. His legacy will continue to guide and inspire virology and ASV.
Now live! Nearly all human genes contain multiple transcript isoforms - and the genes that predominantly control infection, ISGs, are no different. Using PacBio with analysis help from Yan Guo, Himadri noticed a never-before-seen transcript isoform of ISG15 that potently restricts flu 1/4
SMBE2026 Symposium 13 | Perspectives on paleo-omics: defining functional evolution of ancient viruses in the era of big data
📨 Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts
📋 Programme details
smbe2026.org/programme
#SMBE2026
Daniel Blanco-Melo
Daniel Blanco-Melo
Happy to see @joelrc.bsky.social's paper identifying cellular heterogeneity in basal OASL expression as a major determinant of interferon induction during influenza virus infection out in its final form:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Happy new year, hope everyone's 2026 is better than 2025!
Lovely to work with @blevinske.bsky.social, @paleogenomics.bsky.social & Verena Schuenemann on " Ancient DNA insights into diverse pathogens and their hosts"! Read it at rdcu.be/eSVPN
Daniel Blanco-Melo
Excited to share our work on #AncientRNA from alcohol-preserved lungs, recovering the oldest human RNA virus genome (an 18th-century rhinovirus). Our study shows that viral RNA remnants persist in centuries-old tissue, opening new ways to study virus evolution and historical disease #Paleovirology🫁🦠
