Faculty search announcement 2026: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Microbiology at UT Southwestern in Dallas. We seek candidates working in microbial pathogenesis (broadly defined). Come join our community! (1/5) www.utsouthwestern.edu/departments/...

Beyond excited to be selected for the 2026 BWF Path Award. Thanks to my mentors for their support. A special thanks to the trainees in my group who help make this possible. Just overjoyed by the news!!!

Burroughs Wellcome Fund@bwfund.bsky.social · 3mo ago

BWF Announces the 2026 Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease www.bwfund.org/news/bwf-ann... #bwfpath

Faculty search announcement 2025: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Microbiology at UT Southwestern. We seek candidates working in microbial pathogenesis (some preference may be given to bacterial pathogens). Come join our community! (1/5) www.utsouthwestern.edu/departments/...

Valerie Rodriguez Irizarry’s tour de force paper on murine norovirus adaptation/egress is now out in peer-reviewed form ‪@plosbiology.org‬. It highlights the power of forward genetics in virology research. 🧵 1/10 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Excited to share the work of Mikayla Olson in the lab making a replication competent reporter virus for murine norovirus. journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

Development of a replication competent murine norovirus reporter system

Author summary Colloquially known as “the stomach bug,” human norovirus is a leading cause of foodborne illness worldwide. Despite its prevalence, there are no approved therapeutics or vaccines agains...

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Further reading to the great talk from @orchardlab.bsky.social just now at #GRCviruses Membrane asymmetry facilitates MNV entry and persistent infection @plosbiology.org #Virosky 🧪 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Membrane asymmetry facilitates murine norovirus entry and persistent enteric infection

Norovirus tropism depends partly on entry receptors, but the role of cellular lipids in viral entry remains unclear. This study shows that TMEM30a-mediated lipid asymmetry is crucial for murine norovi...

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Excited to have this story published @plosbiology.org. We were surprised to find lipids are important for entry of a non-enveloped virus and that TMEM30a is important for enteric infection of murine norovirus!

PLOS Biology@plosbiology.org · last yr.

Norovirus tropism depends partly on entry receptors, but what is the role of cellular #lipids? @orchardlab.bsky.social &co show that TMEM30a-mediated lipid asymmetry is crucial for murine #norovirus infection, influencing membrane fluidity, viral binding & entry @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4409MtI