Naama Aviram
@naamaaviram.bsky.social
Assistant professor @ Sloan Kettering Institute | Postdoc @ the Marraffini Lab Rockefeller University | PhD @ the Schuldiner Lab Weizmann Institute | microbial defense systems Scientist, immigrant, mom (she/her)
With Eugene Koonin, we wrote a rather comprehensive review on the origin, evolution and organization of the #virosphere. We describe all 10 viral realms and the logic behind them, and so much more. Check it out! comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/biologies/ar...
#SISB2026 was fantastic! A big thanks to the organisers - super inspiring event!
Naama Aviram@naamaaviram.bsky.social · 4mo agoThat's a wrap on three days of incredible science at #SISB2026! Special thanks to @rockefeller.edu for hosting us on their beautiful campus, to our speakers and poster presenters, and most of all to this community that never fails to inspire. Can't wait for #SISB2027 🫶
That's a wrap on three days of incredible science at #SISB2026! Special thanks to @rockefeller.edu for hosting us on their beautiful campus, to our speakers and poster presenters, and most of all to this community that never fails to inspire. Can't wait for #SISB2027 🫶
How do you kill a MRSA superbug armed with 15 different anti-phage defense systems? You make a smarter phage. Check out our latest preprint on overcoming bacterial immunity using defense-guided engineering to build durable therapeutic phage cocktails! Led by Sarah Voss. doi.org/10.64898/202...
Our lab is hiring! As our fierce technician is moving on to graduate school (GO ANNA!), we’re looking for a new tech to join our team studying bacteria-phage interactions. Ideal for recent grads interested in molecular biology and microbiology - please reach out with a CV to aviramn@mskcc.org.
Last day to submit your abstracts! sisb2026.rockefeller.edu
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Kranzusch Lab@kranzuschlab.bsky.social · 5mo agoOur lab is excited to share unpublished research on phage defense at the upcoming 2026 Symposium on the Immune System of Bacteria! Today is the last day for abstract submissions: sisb2026.rockefeller.edu Thank you to Marraffini @naamaaviram.bsky.social Seed @jbdsf.bsky.social labs for organizing!
Out today: We discovered new viral proteins that target immune signaling molecules, solely based on their AlphaFold-predicted shapes www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Congrats Nitzan Tal and coauthors! Thank you Kranzusch lab for the fun collaboration! Linking below previous thread on our findings
Structural modeling reveals phage proteins that manipulate bacterial immune signaling
Immune systems in animals, plants, and bacteria often rely on intracellular nucleotide signaling, which viruses can block by sequestering or degrading these signals. We identified structural and bioph...
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Nitzan Tal@nitzantal.bsky.social · last yr.📢Preprint out! Excited to share my final work from the @soreklab.bsky.social! We mined phage dark matter using structural features shared by anti-defense proteins (viral tools that help phages bypass bacterial immunity) to guide discovery. Found 3 new families targeting immune signaling!
We'll be there with many lab members, sharing new stories, we'll be very happy to get feedback on :) Really looking forward.
Naama Aviram@naamaaviram.bsky.social · 7mo agoAbstract 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!
The 2026 symposium on the immune system of bacteria, New York, May 5-7 A fantastic lineup of speakers, looking forward to seeing top unpublished discoveries on bacterial immunity
Naama Aviram@naamaaviram.bsky.social · 7mo agoAbstract 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!
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!
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Big lab celebration for Joe 🎉 Accepted to the @simonsfoundation.org Simons Society of Fellows! So proud (and very lucky!) to have him in the Aviram Lab #PostdocLife #Microsky #FuturePI 🤞
As many of us 🎁 things up for the year, make sure all your ℹ️'s are dotted- and all your #yeast emojis are downloaded! If you haven't yet, make sure to add the emojyeast collection to all your 📱💻🖥️⌚️ mayaschuldiner.wixsite.com/schuldinerla... Thanks to the amazing Schuldiner lab for these!
Are you interested in studying RNA phages? We are looking for a PhD student and a postdoc to join the lab! For more information and how to apply, see below 👇 Please RT!
Helmholtz Institute Würzburg@helmholtz-hiri.bsky.social · 10mo ago📢 The #HIRI is looking for a #postdoc & a #PhD student to join the research group of @jenshoer.bsky.social. His lab focuses on understanding the molecular mechanisms of #phages with #RNA genomes during infection, host takeover & anti-phage defense. 🧫🦠 More info: www.helmholtz-hiri.de/en/jobs-tale...
Maria Jasin, whose fundamental research on repair of damaged DNA in cells has transformed our understanding of cancers linked to inherited gene mutations, has been selected as the 2025 recipient of the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize. Congratulations! #WomenInScience
Developmental biologist Maria Jasin wins the 2025 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize - News
Maria Jasin, whose fundamental research on repair of damaged DNA in cells has transformed our understanding of cancers linked to inherited gene mutations, has been selected as the 2025 recipient of the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize. Awarded annually by ...
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Now accepting applications for our 2026 Cancer Biology & Cancer Engineering programs. Aspiring scientists & engineers will solve fundamental problems in biology & conduct research & develop technology that will help understand, diagnose & treat cancer. bit.ly/3WUiuo1
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The Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences offers the next generation of basic scientists a program to study the biological sciences through the lens of cancer
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A new theme issue of #PhilTransB examines the evolutionary history of bacterial immune systems, their modes of action, and the patterns how different bacterial immune systems are distributed across different ecosystems. Read: buff.ly/Z4qdxY1
Latest from the lab! Analysis of everyone’s favorite regulatory mechanism in bacteria — the RF2 programmed frameshift! Likely present in the ancestor of bacteria, use of this mechanism is influenced by stop codon usage! Big congrats to @cassidyprints.bsky.social journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Conservation and evolution of the programmed ribosomal frameshift in prfB across the bacterial domain | mBio
Translation termination is catalyzed by one of two release factors in bacteria, RF1 or RF2. It has been known for decades that RF2 levels in Escherichia coli are regulated by a programmed ribosomal frameshift within the prfB gene that encodes RF2. We ...
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Happy birthday Molly! Wishing you an awesome day and looking forward to a year of experiments that (mostly) go as planned, unexpected discoveries, and plenty of lab laughter. You make our micro world brighter every day! 🎉🧬
Molly Monge@mollymonge.bsky.social · last yr.First birthday as a PhD student in @naamaaviram.bsky.social’s lab! Thanks for making it so special and memorable! 🎶🎾👩🔬 @vickyzhuhongyu.bsky.social @annaadels.bsky.social
Come be my boss! My dept. at GT is searching for a new chair. Drop me a line if you are interested, I'd be happy to talk about this position, GT, ATL- anything. It's a drama-free department filled with cool people in a dynamic city. www.biosciences.gatech.edu/chair-search
Chair Search
Chair, School of Biological Sciences Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta The School of Biological Sciences of the Georgia Institute of Technology (“Georgia Tech”) invites applications for the pos...
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1/16 New pre-print from the Sternberg Lab! We uncover how temperate phages can use RNA-guided transcription factors to remodel the flagellar composition of their bacterial host and enhance their fitness. Find the preprint and full story here: tinyurl.com/mshwjd77
Another amazing discovery from the @audeber.bsky.social lab, working with @enzopoirier.bsky.social to demonstrate functional conservation of immune mechanisms across domains of life! Congrats to @hugovaysset.bsky.social and co-authors!!
Aude Bernheim@audeber.bsky.social · last yr.🦠🧍♀️From bacterial to human immunity. We report in @science.org the discovery of a human homolog of SIR2 antiphage proteins that participates in the TLR pathway of animal innate immunity. Co-led wt @enzopoirier.bsky.social by D. Bonhomme and @hugovaysset.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Next up from our lab - a ring nuclease with a novel fold which cleaves all cOA species involved in Type III CRISPR defence. It's also found in plasmid and phage genomes, where it presumably functions as an anti-CRISPR. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A new preprint led by Sonomi Yamaguchi in our lab describes a bacterial anti-phage defense system named Clover that uses nucleotide signals to both activate and inhibit host immunity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
