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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!🙏

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.

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! 🙏

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.

This is incredibly cool

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.

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

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

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 🙏

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...

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

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...

🦟 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

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! 🌼

The website for next year’s #HCVFlavi2026 meeting is up! Please find it here: hcv-flavi2026.org #HCV #Flavivirus #Virus

🦟" #France: Local #chikungunya cases top 700" @santepubliquefrance.fr via @outbreaknewstoday.substack.com.web.brid.gy open.substack.com/pub/outbreak...

Wir ermöglichen die Gratis-Impfung gegen Gürtelrose und Pneumokokken für Menschen ab 60 Jahren und Risikogruppen. Impftermine können ab Anfang November 2025 bei teilnehmenden Ärztinnen und Ärzten und bei öffentlichen Impfstellen vereinbart werden. 1/3

#SARS-CoV-2 wave starting early in the respiratory virus season as last year. Possibly Covid booster #vaccinations should start in September if this pattern holds true in the upcoming years. #health #staysafe

The schedule for #NobelPrize announcements week @nobelprize.bsky.social #NobelPrize2025 dates & time ⬇️

The Institute of #Virology #Innsbruck aka #IVI lab outing 2025 was a lot of fun despite unfavorable weather. Thanks everyone for making it an event to remember. 🤩 #teamspirit #lovevirology

Our one and only Institute of Virology Innsbruck (IVI) was well represented at the Tyrolean Company Run 2025. Thanks to all the employees who ran or cheered for us! It‘s been a blast. 🙏 #lovevirology #teamspirit

Thanks for the clarification. Indeed it is the passive immunization with Nirsevimqb that I was referring to.

Great news. The RSV vaccine will be freely available for newborns from October onwards. Effective protection from the most common cause of severe respiratory tract infection in newborns and toddlers.

David Baltimore passed away this weekend. A pioneer of molecular virology who won the Nobel prize in medicine & physiology for his discovery of viral reverse transcriptase. This essay he wrote in 2018 reflecting of his 60yr career in science is a great read. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Wonderful news for the #Virology community. Congratulations Carla @salehlabparis and all the best for this new era. You will do great! #WomenInSTEM #Science

Congratulations Dr. Yoo! 👏Today Ju Eun Yoo from our team successfully defended her #thesis work on #alphavirus transmission at the #mosquito - human interface. 🍾Stay tuned for her publication. Anybody looking for a talented postdoc: my highest recommendations! #lovevirology #prouddoctoralsupervisor

Scientist’s Sunday #triathlon: biking to the station, train ride (working) and evening run in very flat northern Germany ;) But it’s nice to be #home. The landscape is beautiful in a different way. #gratitude

Neuerliches Update der #FSME in Österreich Es wurden nun für Juni weitere Fälle aus OÖ, Stmk, Ktn, T und Vbg bestätigt Damit erhöht sich die Zahl aktuell auf 43 hospitalisierte Patienten, davon 7 Kinder weitere in Abklärung #homepage update erfolgt nächste Woche viro.meduniwien.ac.at/forschung/vi...

On my way to Hanover, where our last #PhDstudent from the Hannover team Ju Eun Yoo will defend her thesis tomorrow. Stay tuned! While Europe is facing a #heatwave, the beautiful scarf that @salehlabparis.bsky.social gave me for the inauguration is on board, in case the train AC is working. 😉

Yesterday at Gisa’s inaugural symposium Carla Saleh @salehlabparis.bsky.social and Elisabeth Puchhammer from @meduniwien.ac.at gave wonderful talks. A huge thank you to all colleagues, friends and family who came and celebrated with us! A bright start for the Institute of Virology Innsbruck (#IVI)!

Excellent talks and posters at the #Gordon research conference #Viruses & #Cells in Casteldelfels, Spain. Wonderful to meet colleagues and friends from all over the world.

Celebrating the successful move of our research labs on campus. Thanks a lot to everyone at the Institute of #Virology Innsbruck #IVI for your good #team spirit! 🙏To a bright and successful future in the new building! #lovevirology

Five months after moving the lab from Germany to Austria, we are again packing up offices and labs to move next door on campus. A huge thank you to all employees for keeping up the good spirit in these tricky times! #gratitude #teamspirit 🙏All because we #loveviroloy