Congratulations to Juhee on a stellar thesis defense! Clear, thoughtful, and thorough. Your work on rotavirus and SARS-CoV-2 reflects incredible perseverance. It's been a privilege watching you grow into an independent scientist. Wishing you all the best in your next chapter!🎓👏

We identified SAMD9 as a common sensor of cytosolic dsDNA and dsRNA molecules and a key host restriction factor of the infection of multiple dsRNA viruses in vitro and in vivo! rdcu.be/eiJHa

SAMD9 senses cytosolic double-stranded nucleic acids in epithelial and mesenchymal cells to induce antiviral immunity

Nature Communications - Sensing of cytosolic RNA or DNA can lead to innate responses, but little information is available for RNA/DNA dual sensors. Here the authors find SAMD9 as a potential dual...

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First post on Bluesky! Excited to share the first paper from our lab in 2025! cell.com/cell-host-mi.... Our study demonstrates that UV-inactivated replication-defective rotaviruses can cause diarrhea in neonatal mice, suggesting the host response also contributes to diarrhea to flush out the virus.

Innate immune sensing of rotavirus by intestinal epithelial cells leads to diarrhea

Hou et al. demonstrate in an infant mouse model that innate immune sensing of enteric viruses induces IFN-λ signaling, which downregulates an apical chloride exchanger that leads to increased intestin...

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