We’re launching a new AVS ECR Collaboration Award 🎉 Up to $2,000 domestic / $3,000 international to help ECRs visit a new collaborator across Australia, NZ or the Pacific. Thanks to @slonchak.bsky.social & @danielrawle.bsky.social for driving this initiative! Applications close 15 Dec.

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After months of organising paperwork and making shipment arrangements the Oropouche virus has finally arrived from Brazil. With access to state of the art facilities and equipment at @qimrb.bsky.social we are now ready to dissect the mechanisms of its neuropathogenesis.

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Thrilled to share the first major preprint from the lab. Viruses are classically viewed as targets of host sensing. Do viruses also sense and respond to the host? We propose viruses may act as “biosensors” of the host signaling state. A thread👇🏾 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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I'm excited that our review paper on superinfection exclusion in insect-specific flaviviruses is now published. This comprehensive review summarizes the experimental data on the ability of different ISFs to cause SIE and suggests future pathways in SIE research: www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/18...

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Festive season at Systems Virology Lab @qimrb.bsky.social 🎄🍷 Thank you York and @michaelleitner.bsky.social for organising this on my last day at work this year.

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