The Geneva #HFSPmtg2026 is incredibly inspiring. This is what true interdisciplinary science looks like. Terrific talks by colleagues across all disciplines and coffee discussions leading to exciting new research ideas on the horizon. A huge thank you to the wonderful @hfspo.bsky.social community!🙏

Human Frontier Science Program@hfspo.bsky.social · 4w ago

What does frontier science look like? 🧪 At #HFSPmtg2026, it spans everything from cell migration and photosynthesis to evolution, plant biology or ocean microbiomes. Different questions. Different approaches. One community exchanging ideas across disciplines! 💪 #HFSP #sts

Morning run around Hannover before the @keystonesymposia.bsky.social on Viral Pathogenesis & Immunity got kicked off tonight. Thanks to Michaela Gack, Pei-Yong Shi, @profvolkerthiel.bsky.social and Mike Diamond for putting together a great program. Wonderful to see colleagues from around the globe.

On May 1st our 5-year EU African vaccine initiative started to test CHIKV vaccines in phase IIIb studies in Kenya & Tanzania. Very much looking forward to exciting joint work with our partners from @kemriwellcome.bsky.social, Ifakara Health Institute, EPFL, Valneva, @ki.se, @isciiisalud.bsky.social.

GfV - Gesellschaft für Virologie@gesvirologie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Europäische Forschung zu OneHealth, Antivirals und Vaccines. (BS) @geroldlab.bsky.social tirol.orf.at/stories/3356...

Apologies for being a bit quiet lately. Now catching up. Magda Benitez from #CINVESTAV was a visiting PhD student in the lab and used some of our tools to assess DENV - host factor interactions. It was great to have her. Always fun to host such motivated, skilled and nice students from abroad! 🙏

Med Uni Innsbruck@i-med.ac.at · 3mo ago

Magda Benítez absolviert ihren PhD am #CINVESTAV in Mexiko und als Gaststudentin im @geroldlab.bsky.social​- wo sie mehr über die Replikation von Dengue-Viren herausfinden will. Wir haben Magda portraitiert und sie hat uns erzählt, warum sie in den Alpen eine Tropenkrankheit erforscht.

To all those amazing female colleagues out there and also to those male colleagues who support #womeninSTEM: Happy World Women‘s Day! 👏 Ain’t no mountain high enough….let us continue our efforts towards #genderequality on the planet.

Exciting work by @karimaj.bsky.social, btw a former @umeauniversitet.bsky.social fellow. Check it out.

Karim Majzoub@karimaj.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We found a viral Trojan Horse: a virus can hide inside another virus.This one surprised us: deltaviruses don’t just borrow a helper virus. They can travel inside it. A literal Trojan Horse “virus-in-a-virus” route into cells. 🤯 Kudos to 1st author @viroscope.bsky.social and co-authors !

This is incredibly cool

Edoardo Gianni@edogia.bsky.social · 6mo ago

How could a simple self-replicating system emerge at the origins of life? RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but existing ones are so large that their self-replication seems impossible. Could they be smaller? Excited to share our latest work in @science.org on a new small polymerase. 1/n

On my way to @uniregensburg.bsky.social to present the latest data from team GG. Thanks a lot Barbara Schmidt for the invitation. 🙏Looking forward to meeting the #virology colleagues there. #lovevirology

⏰ Reminder: Applications for the Helmholtz Junior Research Group Leaders (f/m/d) at @helmholtz-hiri.bsky.social or @helmholtzhips.bsky.social close on February 15! Don’t miss your chance to start your independent group in pharmaceutical research or RNA biology. jobs.helmholtz-hzi.de/job/Saarbr%C...

Traveling with #DeutscheBahn. First class ticket and you have to work on the floor. Amazing. Needless to say that this is not very safe.

📢 Call for a postdoctoral position in virology 📍 Institute of Virology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria 🕘 5 years | Full-time 📅 Starting 1 April 2026 🔗 Apply: virologie.i-med.ac.at/postdoctoral... #CapacityStrengthening @geroldlab.bsky.social

Team GG‘s first Innsbruck #Master student, Marie Parigger, defended her thesis on Tspans in #alphavirus #species #transmission. 😃Congratulations Marie! 👏 Also to Anja de Bruin, her superb lab #supervisor. 🙏The meme created by Marie makes us feel strong to face future challenges. 😉#lovevirology

Come join us for a newly funded @horizoneu.bsky.social @globalhealthedctp3.bsky.social project on CHIKV vaccine responses in vulnerable populations in Africa. We seek a highly motivated and skilled #postdoc and #projectmanager. Please find details here: virologie.i-med.ac.at/career/ #lovevirology

The #InstituteOfVirologyInnsbruck (IVI) kicked off 2026 with our retreat on arbovirology, respiratory viruses, viral diagnostics and applied virology. 😃Our 2 keynotes @danielaweiskopf & Niklas Arnberg from @umeauniversitet gave new insights on CHIKV T cell responses and adenoviruses. 🙏🤩

Happy holidays to all colleagues, customers, supporters and friends! Your institute of virology Innsbruck (#IVI) #lovevirology #happyholidays #gratitude

Thanks a lot to the Tübingen virologists Tina Ganzenmüller, @sauterlab.bsky.social, Michael Schindler, Thomas Iftner et al. for hosting me yesterday. It was lovely to be back at my #AlmaMater and present and discuss our latest work on #alphavirus, i.e. CHIKV & VEEV - host interaction. #lovevirology

Congratulations to the new #GfV board of directors 👏and thank you to Ulf Dittmer, Sandra Ciesek, Klaus Überla, Jörg Timm and Stephie Pfänder for the past productive period. 🙏Happy to serve on the advisory board again and that my “baby”, the connection to the #Swedish #virologist 🇸🇪is well received.

GfV - Gesellschaft für Virologie@gesvirologie.bsky.social · 8mo ago

For our English speaking members (and friends): the polls are in! As of March '26, we will have a new Board of Directors ("Vorstand"), as well as a new Advisory Board ("Beirat"). Our new president will be Prof. Sandra Ciesek (Frankfurt)! Cordial congratulations, Sandra 💐 Further board members ⬇️

Great news for everyone working on EVs and viruses: the #GFV2026 meeting will include a full session on #ExtracellularVesicles in Viral Infection! Looking forward to the discussions and abstracts from our communities. 📅 17–20 March 2026, Heidelberg 📝 Abstracts: 4 Jan 2026 🔗 virology-meeting.de

Florian Krammer from #ISMMS and #Semmelweis Institute is visiting Innsbruck. Tonight at the public library Innsbruck we will have a panel discussion on how we can prepare for future pandemic threats and improve #globalhealth. #pandemicpreparedness #lovevirology #flu #arboviruses #rapidresponse

The currently circulating seasonal #influenza H3N2 subclade K increases unusually early this season. #Vaccination highly recommended especially for individuals >65 years and individuals with #chronic diseases or #immunocompromised. See also the @ecdc.europa.eu assessment: tinyurl.com/7rrsj86h

GfV - Gesellschaft für Virologie@gesvirologie.bsky.social · 8mo ago

"Neuer Influenza-Subtyp: Was in dieser Grippesaison zu erwarten ist"- dazu nehmen @klausueberla.bsky.social und @ulrike-protzer.bsky.social im folgenden Beitrag Stellung 👇 (HMB) www.tagesschau.de/wissen/gesun...

Excellent speaker lineup at the international #arbovirus webinar. Huge thank you to the organizers Tem Morrison, @tulilab.bsky.social and @clive-mckimmie.bsky.social for their continued commitment to this scientific community service. 🙏 #lovevirology

Arbovirus seminars@arbovirus.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We’re back with another season of monthly seminars bringing together diverse and leading investigators worldwide to share cutting-edge arbovirus science. 🧬 Topics span molecular virology, virus–vector interactions, epidemiology, pathogenesis, and more. 📅 3rd Thursday each month 🕚 11 AM US ET Zoom

Thank you very much @globalvirusnews.bsky.social for the kind invitation to present at the Forefront of #Virology seminar series. Also thanks to all those colleagues and students dialing in and for the good discussion round. #lovevirology 🙏

Global Virus Network@globalvirusnews.bsky.social · 9mo ago

TODAY AT 1 PM ET! — Gisa Gerold, PhD presents “Replication of Re-emerging Arthritogenic Alphaviruses: To Bend or Not to Bend” in the # GVN Forefront of Virology Webinar Series. Free & open to the public. CME credits available. Register: https://ow.ly/k3p150XjUZF

This week Derek Smith, Director of the Center for Pathogen Evolution at Cambridge University visited us at the Institute of #Virology #IVI #Innsbruck and gave an excellent talk on advanced vaccines and immunity management. Thanks a lot Derek for the excellent talk and discussions! #lovevirology

From mosquitoes carrying dengue and chikungunya in Indian Ocean islands to West Nile virus now endemic in parts of Europe, climate change is redrawing the global map of infectious disease. Mail & Guardian coverage our COP30 Report - mg.co.za/the-green-gu...

Climate change is spreading dengue, chikungunya and West Nile virus worldwide

A new COP30 report finds that rising temperatures, extreme weather, evolving pathogens and climate-driven migration are reshaping disease patterns

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Please find the Society of #Virology (#GfV) commentary on the current #avian #flu situation below. #H5N1

Friedemann Weber@friedemann.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Stellungnahme der Kommission „Zoonosen und Virusinfektionen der Tiere“ zu H5N1 Gesellschaft für Virologie @gesvirologie.bsky.soc

Always fun when the word "unusually" turns up in a UKHSA doc: "influenza activity increased, particularly among children, and is now above baseline. This is an unusually early start of the influenza season." www.gov.uk/government/s...

National flu and COVID-19 surveillance report: 30 October 2025 (week 44)

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🦟 We've just published the world's first head-to-toe single-cell atlas of the Aedes aegypti mosquito in @cp-cell.bsky.social! The #MosquitoCellAtlas maps 69 cell types across 19 tissues, revealing surprising biology. Read it here: shorturl.at/dJWT3

A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult Aedes aegypti mosquito

A comprehensive single-nucleus RNA-seq atlas of >367,000 nuclei from male and female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes reveals sexual dimorphism in sensory systems and brain cell types and widespread co-expres...

cell.com

Last week‘s One Health Tyrol Symposium organized by Lorenz Kohl from #vetmeduni Vienna was an excellent opportunity to exchange ideas across disciplines. Thanks to the colleagues from human & veterinary medicine, basic science & the political stakeholders for the terrific exchange. #lovevirology

Terrific talk and excellent discussions at our Institute of Virology seminar series #IVI by Judith Aberle @aberlejudith.bsky.social. Judith presented her latest work on TBEV B and T cell responses as well as TBEV epidemiology in Austria. It was wonderful to have you here. Thank you! 🙏#lovevirology

We are very excited to have you here in Innsbruck @aberlejudith.bsky.social ! Judith Aberle from Medical University Vienna will share her latest data on TBEV at our Virology Seminar. Safe travels Judith and see you very soon! 🌼

Aberle Judith@aberlejudith.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Looking very much forward to visiting Gisa @geroldlab.bsky.social at Medical University Innsbruck tomorrow - discussing our recent studies on tick-borne encephalitis and future flavivirus projects 🌸