Vasilakis Lab
@vasilakislab.bsky.social
Our focus is to understand the mechanisms that allow zoonotic, sylvatic arthropod-borne viruses to jump species boundaries and cause disease. Shared lab account
We look forward welcoming you July 14th for our scheduled Virtual Seminar Series on Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases webinar. Dr. @jumarisnyman.bsky.social will present: “From the Prairies to the Arctic: California serogroup virus surveillance in Canada". Register: www.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi...
Looking forward seeing you all tomorrow!
Vasilakis Lab@vasilakislab.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe are looking forward welcoming you on June 9th for our next Virtual Seminar Series on Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases webinar. Prof. Robert (Bob) Abbott will be presenting: "Antigen avidity potentiates the durability of the vaccine immune response." www.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi... #ASTMH #UTMB
Happy to share our newest publication "Tracing the evolutionary history of insect-specific orthoflavivirus through phylogenetics" in collaboration with the @mauriciolnogueira.bsky.social,led by Cecilia Banco & a group of talented early career scientists. @utmbhealth.bsky.social @astmh.bsky.social
We are looking forward welcoming you on June 9th for our next Virtual Seminar Series on Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases webinar. Prof. Robert (Bob) Abbott will be presenting: "Antigen avidity potentiates the durability of the vaccine immune response." www.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi... #ASTMH #UTMB
Looking forward seeing you in a couple of days. We are hosting Prof. Ebel @ebellaboratory.bsky.social for another great webinar. Do not miss it! @utmbhealth.bsky.social @astmh.bsky.social @sbvirologia.bsky.social
Vasilakis Lab@vasilakislab.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe are looking forward welcoming you on May 12th for Prof. Ebel's @ebellaboratory.bsky.social webinar "Flavivirus vector interactions: Probing flavivirus population biology at the virus-host interface." Register: www.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi... @utmbhealth.bsky.social @astmh.bsky.social
We are looking forward welcoming you on May 12th for Prof. Ebel's @ebellaboratory.bsky.social webinar "Flavivirus vector interactions: Probing flavivirus population biology at the virus-host interface." Register: www.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi... @utmbhealth.bsky.social @astmh.bsky.social
Trump administration drops court fight to cap NIH payments for research overhead costs www.statnews.com/2026/04/08/t... via @statnews.com
Trump administration drops court fight to cap NIH payments for research overhead costs
The Trump administration will not be asking the Supreme Court to take up its fight to slash NIH support for research indirect costs
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Watch live: Liftoff is approaching for four astronauts set to fly around the moon on the Artemis II mission.
Artemis II Launch Live Updates: NASA Resolves Technical Issues as Astronauts Count Down to Moon Launch
The crew of four — three Americans and one Canadian — are scheduled to launch at 6:24 p.m. Eastern on the first crewed journey to the moon since 1972. But they will not land there on this mission.
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We look forward welcoming you April 14th for our Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases webinar series. Dr Leah Katzelnick will be presenting "Enhancing, controlling, and sterilizing dengue immunity and development of broadly protective responses". Register: www.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi...
Happy π day everyone. Another reminder of the contributions of Hellene mathematicians. @utmbnews.bsky.social @astmh.bsky.social @sbvirologia.bsky.social @rossilab.bsky.social @mauriciolnogueira.bsky.social
We are looking forward seeing you tomorrow for Dr Siqueira's webinar "Dengue Alliance: How to Deliver Effective and Accessible Dengue Treatments". Register: www.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi.... @mauriciolnogueira.bsky.social @astmh.bsky.social @sbvirologia.bsky.social @utmbhealth.bsky.social @dndi.org
I am delighted to see our viewpoint in collaboration with the Drumond and Nogueira @mauriciolnogueira.bsky.social groups out in The Lancet Regional health - Americas. @utmbhealth.bsky.social @sbvirologia.bsky.social @astmh.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
we look forward seeing you on March 10 for Dr. Siqueira's webinar on "Dengue Alliance: How to Deliver Effective and Accessible Dengue Treatments". Register: www.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi.... @utmbhealth.bsky.social @dndi.org @sbvirologia.bsky.social @astmh.bsky.social
Looking forward see you all this upcoming Tuesday! @astmh.bsky.social @sbvirologia.bsky.social @utmbnews.bsky.social @mauriciolnogueira.bsky.social @rossilab.bsky.social
Vasilakis Lab@vasilakislab.bsky.social · 6mo agoWe are looking forward welcoming you Tuesday, February 10th for our scheduled Virtual Seminar Series on Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases webinar. Prof. Duane Gubler and Allyson Choi Ning Xin will be presenting: "Viral Genetics influence Epidemic Dengue Transmission". #UTMB #ASTMH #ACAV #SBV
Looking forward seeing you all tomorrow for Prof. McCaffrey's webinar. @utmbhealth.bsky.social @astmh.bsky.social @sbvirologia.bsky.social
Very proud to announce that my baby is finally here! This new program at UTMB will support a variety of training opportunities in medical and veterinary entomology. It will also focus on developing a broad network of partners interested in vector biology and ecology across the state of Texas.
We are looking forward welcoming you Tuesday, January 13th for our scheduled Virtual Seminar Series on Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases webinar. Prof. Peter McCaffrey will be presenting: "Scaling AI for Bioinformatics: from Pipelines to Agents ". Register: lnkd.in/g7pvikh4 #UTMB #ASTMH #ACAV #SBV
Delighted to see our latest publication on neglected orthoflaviviruses been published today. Great team work led by Rosie Steck and stay tuned for more soon... journals.plos.org/plosntds/art... @utmbnews.bsky.social @astmh.bsky.social @mauriciolnogueira.bsky.social @sbvirologia.bsky.social
Hiding in plain sight: Genomic and phenotypic characterization of mosquito-borne Bussuquara virus
Author summary After decades of being considered negligible pathogens, multiple mosquito-borne viruses, such as Zika and Mayaro, are now recognized as significant human health threats across the neotr...
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We are looking forward welcoming you on December 9th for Prof. Barry Rockx's @barryrockx.bsky.social presentation: "Experimental models for characterization of emerging vector-borne viruses". Register: www.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi... @astmh.bsky.social @utmbnews.bsky.social @sbvirologia.bsky.social
Good explainer for non-scientists on how the science budget hasn’t changed, but funding has. I do not envy anyone with a funding cliff in the next two years (myself included). Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article)
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
nytimes.com
Excited to share our new publication www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... led by @mauriciolnogueira.bsky.social group. Great work by Lívia Sacchetto and Cecilia Banho who led the deep sequencing and phylogenetic analysis, respectively, and to the rest of the team for their outstanding contributions.!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I will keep it short and sweet. Great news out of Brazil today 👇. Congratulations to the interdisciplinary teams that made it a reality! @mauriciolnogueira.bsky.social @astmh.bsky.social #Burantan
Looking forward welcoming you for our scheduled Virtual Seminar Series on Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. Prof. Barry Rockx @barryrockx.bsky.social will be presenting: "Experimental models for characterization of emerging vector-borne viruses". Register: www.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi...
Why surveillance is important? 4 years ago we predicted a CHIKV outbreak by detecting its silent circulation (lnkd.in/gx7-4ZeQ). Today, the team @mauriciolnogueira.bsky.social provided a genomic and clinical time map of the massive CHIKV outbreak of 2024 in the area. #FAMERP #SBV #ASTMH #UTMB #ACAV
Out now! Taxonomic expansion and reorganization of Flaviviridae @vasilakislab.bsky.social @grovearmada.bsky.social & co #microsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Taxonomic expansion and reorganization of Flaviviridae - Nature Microbiology
Analysis of RNA polymerase hallmark gene phylogenies supported by protein structure relationships of flaviviruses and ‘flavi-like’ viruses underpins the taxonomic expansion and reorganization of Flavi...
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Monumental effort led by Peter Simmonds and Jens Kuhn to reorganize the Family Flaviviridae based on analysis of RNA-directed RNA polymerase (RdRP) hallmark gene sequences is finally out. Enjoy reading. #ICTV @utmbhealth.bsky.social @astmh.bsky.social @sbvirologia.bsky.social
Looking forward seeing you tomorrow for Prof. Kim's webinar on 'development of Vaccines against Alphaviruses and Flaviviruses". @astmh.bsky.social @utmbhealth.bsky.social @sbvirologia.bsky.social @rossilab.bsky.social @mauriciolnogueira.bsky.social
Delighted to see Marielena Saivish's manuscript on the "Standardization of Quantitative Plaque-Based Viral Assays for Orthoflavivirus Cacipacoré" published. A collaborative effort with colleagues on our drive to characterize Brazilian neglected orthoflaviviruses. #UTMBHealth #FAMERP #FAPESP #SBV
