Excited to present our recent minireview on all things of mice and viruses 🐁 🦠

Journal of Virology@jvico-eics.bsky.social · 2mo ago

JVI's next free Seminar Series webinar is on hantaviruses! Join us on June 23 and learn about the ecology and natural history of orthohantavirus infection in reservoir rodents, w/ an emphasis on the N. American Sin Nombre virus that can cause HCPS in humans. Register now! asm.org/webinars/jou...

~3,000 miles + so much food = summer roadtrip

Check out my minireview published as part of JVI’s New Voices in Virology collection on why translation shouldn’t stop at “bench to bedside.” Some of the most important insights on zoonotic spillover come from closing the loop between the laboratory and the field. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Going wild: prioritizing experimental models of rodent-borne viruses to decode zoonotic spillover and pandemic risk | Journal of Virology

Rodents have been a cornerstone of medical research since the 17th century, with their use formalized alongside the development of fancy mice into familiar inbred mouse strains in the early 1900s (1)....

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Latest read featuring Apple (also shoutout Crow Bookshop) Rating: 👻👻👻⚫️⚫️ 3.25/5 ghosts

2025 reading wrap-up and noticing I started and ended the year with cats 🐈

Looking forward to contributing to (and reading!) this collection in 2026 as part of the inaugural New Voices in Virology minireview collection! 🐀🦠 journals.asm.org/journal/jvi/...

New Voices in Virology

Annual competition for early-career virologists to publish a minireview in JVI. Their minireviews will be peer reviewed & published in a collection.

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When you've been in the cell culture hood all day and finally get to take off your gloves:

Elise is great (can vouch) and Burlington is great (can also vouch)👇

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Myself and two awesome colleagues are recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow in Planetary Health at the University of Vermont, application review begins March 17. We're committed to a supportive mentoring environment, please feel free to reach out with questions! drive.google.com/file/d/1OECG...

Looking if anyone has a CAT ELISA source as my go-to from Roche was discontinued. Currently doing some revisions and need this or a work-around to quantify CAT in a reporter assay. Any advice welcome! www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/produc...

Enjoying(?) the snowy weather since it has finally warmed up from feeling like it’s below zero

2024 reading wrap-up powered by #Storygraph Favorite literary reads this year are Small Things Like These, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, and Never Let Me Go

final (?) read of the year and got me over 10,000 pages 🥣

Proud and honored to be the inaugural Botten Lab Mario Kart tournament/holiday party champion 🏎️

Took nearly 2 months to finish this book, mainly because I set it down for two weeks in the middle of Imelda’s section 🐝 #iykyk

Tree is up and Maple has decided that she is the gift.

May have proved to myself that Boston is indeed a *very* walkable city with @rchrisskinner.bsky.social

Excited for my first bluesky post announcing TWO openings for tenure track positions in virology! I am chair of the search committee and with a new department head Mike Gale we are in an exciting building phase. Please share with anyone who might be interested: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/365...

Not so patiently waiting for the rain to subside

Trust in Scientists 🧪 Public confidence in scientists edged up slightly in 2024, according to a recent Pew Research Study, but still remains 10 percentage points below pre-pandemic levels. The confidence rise is split along party lines (88% vs. 66%), but notable that Republicans edged 5% higher YoY.

📢 Boosting Flu Vaccination Rates for Heart Health Did you know? A study in Denmark found that simple electronic reminders focusing on the heart-health benefits of flu vaccines helped more people—especially heart attack survivors—get vaccinated. https://buff.ly/40Qbv3b #HeartHealth #PublicHealth

More people, especially those with heart disease, get flu vaccine when heart-health benefits are underscored

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Just finished my first classroom visit with @skypeascientist.bsky.social and wow! the questions these 3rd graders asked were impressive. Highly recommend signing up as a scientist (and donating!)

A good week to be a Catamount 💚💛

Couldn’t find a virology starter pack so here’s one to get the ball rolling. Repost/reply if you are a virologist so I can find and add you to the list! go.bsky.app/SinqoJU

Happy to be back at the old stomping grounds for WV Wesleyan homecoming festivities (and the highlight of Maple getting blessed by the Dean of the Chapel)

Eeeep! y'all! My book is temporarily on Kindle Unlimited! GO GO GO THE RATS NEED YOU www.amazon.com/Pests-Humans...

Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains , Brookshire, Bethany - Amazon.com

Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains - Kindle edition by Brookshire, Bethany. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains.

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UVM is searching for its first Assistant Dean and Manager of Postdoctoral Affairs Deatils: jobs.chronicle.com/job/37680735...

A little late on sharing this, but some final studies from graduate school finally over the publication hurdle #TeamFerret www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Diet-induced obesity affects influenza disease severity and transmission dynamics in ferrets

A diet-induced obese ferret model can elucidate mechanisms of influenza disease severity and transmission dynamics.

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Glad to see this finally out as it was truly a labor of love in many ways…one of them being first publication with @rchrisskinner.bsky.social ❤️ rdcu.be/dE6i0

Diet switch pre-vaccination improves immune response and metabolic status in formerly obese mice

Nature Microbiology - Diet switching from high-fat to standard diet before influenza vaccination affects the metabolic state of T cells, restores their responses and improves vaccine efficacy in mice.

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What Happens When a Poor State Guts Its Public University

Do West Virginia kids of modest means deserve the humanities?

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Some memories from a very hectic October 🧬