Immensely grateful to the @beckman-foundation.bsky.social for supporting our lab’s work on viral immune evasion, and honored to join the Beckman Young Investigator Program!! I look forward to being part of this incredible community 🤩
Tomorrow at the #SystemsVirologyJournalClub, @finkelyaara.bsky.social will present her work with @sginossarlab.bsky.social on engineering HCMV to express sgRNA libraries directly from the viral genome to profile virus-host interactions across the infection cycle. Join us!
Abstract submission is now OPEN for the 2026 Symposium on the Immune System of Bacteria!
sisb2026.rockefeller.edu
🗓 May 5–7, 2026
📍 Rockefeller University, New York City
⏰ Abstract deadline: March 16, 2026
Attendance will be capped, be sure to register early and secure your spot.
See you in NYC!
Tomorrow at the #SystemsVirologyJournalClub, Ivan Zheludev will present his work with Andrew Fire on the discovery of viroid-like RNAs that are associated with the human microbiome. Join us!
Paper: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39481381/
As we are sending back the revised version of our pooled prime editing gene tagging paper, I am happy to share a website for design of prime tagging libraries, including some images, all generated from a single pooled transduction and in situ sequencing.
primetagging.org
Beautiful work from the Nemudryi lab discovering tRNA-targeting antiviral immunity in bacteria.
Tomorrow at the #SystemsVirologyJournalClub, Joel Tan (@joelmjtan.bsky.social) will present his work with Philip Kranzusch (@kranzuschlab.bsky.social) on a DNA-gated molecular guard that control bacterial anti-phage defence.
Paper: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40306316/
Tomorrow at the #SystemsVirologyJournalClub, William Bakhache (@williambakhache.bsky.social) will present his work with Patrick Dolan (@ptdolan.bsky.social) on the constraints that shape Enterovirus A71 evolution using deep mutational scanning.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39609576/
Tomorrow at the #SystemsVirologyJournalClub @mayavoichek.bsky.social will present her work with @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social on the discovery of direct cell-to-cell transmission of retrotransposons.
Paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We are thrilled to announce the 2026 Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Fellows! 40 remarkable postdocs pursuing transformative research in biological/biomedical sciences.
This is the 7th Leading Edge cohort and we are so excited to welcome them!
www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows/
🚨 Systems Virology Journal Club – 8th Series! 🚨
#BillSchneider and I are delighted to announce another round of cutting-edge talks in #SystemsVirology! 🦠💡
Join us and an outstanding lineup of speakers, starting Oct 30.
Free registration: shiraweingartengabbay.com/systems-viro... 🔬✨
🚨 Systems Virology Journal Club – 8th Series! 🚨
#BillSchneider and I are delighted to announce another round of cutting-edge talks in #SystemsVirology! 🦠💡
Join us and an outstanding lineup of speakers, starting Oct 30.
Free registration: shiraweingartengabbay.com/systems-viro... 🔬✨
🚨 Systems Virology Journal Club – 8th Series! 🚨
#BillSchneider and I are delighted to announce another round of cutting-edge talks in #SystemsVirology! 🦠💡
Join us and an outstanding lineup of speakers, starting Oct 30.
Free registration: shiraweingartengabbay.com/systems-viro... 🔬✨
🚨 Systems Virology Journal Club – 8th Series! 🚨
#BillSchneider and I are delighted to announce another round of cutting-edge talks in #SystemsVirology! 🦠💡
Join us and an outstanding lineup of speakers, starting Oct 30.
Free registration: shiraweingartengabbay.com/systems-viro... 🔬✨
🚨 Systems Virology Journal Club – 8th Series! 🚨
#BillSchneider and I are delighted to announce another round of cutting-edge talks in #SystemsVirology! 🦠💡
Join us and an outstanding lineup of speakers, starting Oct 30.
Free registration: shiraweingartengabbay.com/systems-viro... 🔬✨
Leading Edge Fellows Program
Congratulations to our 2026 Beckman Young Investigator Awardees! Twelve Researchers Selected to Receive $7.2M in Total Science Funding for Cutting-edge Research www.beckman-foundation.org/latest-news/... #BYI #beckmanresearch #newlyawarded
Shira Weingarten-Gabbay
Shira Weingarten-Gabbay
Shira Weingarten-Gabbay
Shira Weingarten-Gabbay
Shira Weingarten-Gabbay
Our work on bacterial Schlafens in phage defense is out today @natmicrobiol.nature.com!
Check out the final version here:
rdcu.be/e7Bmz
We are looking for postdocs and students to expand our team! Official postings are coming soon.
Please reach out if you're interested!
#phage #phagesky #microsky
Nature Microbiology - This study highlights that Schlafens are ancient, mechanistically conserved immune effectors that mediate antiviral immunity in organisms ranging from humans to bacteria.
rdcu.be
Artem Nemudryi
First preprint from the Nemudryi Lab! 🍾
In this work, we link antiviral immunity in bacteria and humans by showing that homologs of human Schlafen nucleases protect bacteria from phages.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Human Schlafen proteins restrict viral replication by cleaving tRNA, thereby suppressing protein synthesis. Although the ribonuclease domain of Schlafen proteins is conserved across all domains of lif...
