Kylee Morrison

ANNOUNCEMENT! My lab at Western Michigan University will be recruiting at least one graduate student, but no more than 2, to begin in Fall of 2027. Please share with any prospective students interested in host-virus interactions! Link to apply below 😊🦠🧬 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

lab 2.0 in Chicago in search of a postdoc! Pursue virus-host interactions, post-translational modifications, and RNA splicing. Excellent in oral and written communication, lab and project management, and an ability to supervise and mentor trainees. sfbkrlab.org www.careers.luc.edu/postings/35620

Our lab is hiring for a Research Assistant position! Please repost widely. jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/wistar...

🚨 Postdoc position open - please repost! Join our lab in Lausanne🇨🇭to study KSHV, virus–host interactions & RNA decay + great quality of life right by Lake Leman and the Alps ⛰️ Apply here 👉 sites.google.com/view/muller-...

OTD in 1985 the first HIV blood test was approved by the FDA. Though HIV can now be managed with access to the right treatments, it would be another 11 YEARS before that antiviral cocktail, HAART, would be approved.

Thanks to my awesome undergrads, we officially have immunofluorescence established in the lab 🤩👩‍🔬❤️🧫 (tubulin in 293T)

Happy 134th birthday to humans knowing that viruses exist! OTD in 1892 Dmitri Ivanovsky presented his evidence of a tobacco mosaic disease caused by filterable agents (not bacteria!). Martinus Beijerinck confirmed this independently in 1898. And voila, virology is born!

Kalamazoo’s Science on Tap series kicked off this semester with a bang - David Wilson from Kalamazoo College presented on biophysics of viral icosahedral capsid structures! Complete with 3D models of different capsids 🤩🦠

Happy to see @joelrc.bsky.social's paper identifying cellular heterogeneity in basal OASL expression as a major determinant of interferon induction during influenza virus infection out in its final form: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Happy new year, hope everyone's 2026 is better than 2025!

The Akhtar Lab @manneresearch.bsky.social and Northwestern University @nufeinbergmed.bsky.social is hiring a full time RESEARCH TECHNICIAN. If you want to study neonatal HSV pathogenesis please send me a message and apply for the position here: luriechildrens.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/externalport...

Very excited to share the first publication from the Price Lab, "Replication-competent adenovirus reporters utilizing endogenous viral expression architecture", is now online at Journal of Virology! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

As RFK testifies in front of the Senate today, ASV wants to emphasize the risks posed by his decisions related to virus outbreaks and the public health of Americans. Together with our partner organizations, we call for RFK's resignation: asm.org/press-releas...

New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

Excited to share our latest paper on how macroH2A is targeted by IE1 during HCMV infection- featured as an editors pick in Nature Communications! Fantastic work by Laurel and team!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

First day of the Morrison Lab at Western Michigan University! 👩🏻‍🔬🧫🧬 Lots of work to do, excited to officially start this chapter!

Congratulations to Dr. Mark Mandel on receiving a NSF collaborative award to develop CRISPR technologies first in Vibrio bacteria and then adapt those broadly! mmi.wisc.edu/news-departm...

I don’t have a problem with someone evaluating my science abilities if I have the ability to examine theirs. Let’s do televised qualifying exams for all the political appointees who will be evaluating science grants and proposals. Let’s start with directors of institutes and cabinet secretaries.

Extra kudos and thanks to all the staff at NIH and NSF and other federal funding agencies for working extra hard in very small windows of opportunity to get grants reviewed and funds released before the attention-addled federal policies change again (on an hourly basis).

Postdoc positions available! Please re-post! Are you interested in how viruses manipulate chromatin? Are you excited to discover unknown facets of molecular biology? If so, we’d love to hear from you! Come check us out at: avgoustilab.org

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Hello BlueSky friends! I am wildly grateful and excited to share that I'm joining the Biological Sciences Dept at Western Michigan University as an Assistant Professor this fall! My lab will study host-virus interactions required for HCMV infectivity. Go Broncos! 💛🦠🧫🤎

Multiple long-range cis interactions generate CTCF insulator-dependent viral chromatin domains in quiescent HSV-1 genomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.08.652945v1

Please share the letter from the Coalition for the Life Sciences re termination of ongoing NIH grants. It's a breach trust betw researchers and govt, bad for trainees, potentially fatal for patients in clinical trials, and diminishes the US science. www.coalitionforlifesciences.org/cls-calls-on...

Terry Dermody and I wrote an op-ed about chronic diseases ("Make America Healthy Again"), the role of viral infections, and how virologists can help. www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...

This is the way to fight back. Not just rejecting illegal demands, but also arguing affirmatively for the value of university research.

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In 2024 NIH grant awards supported 407,782 jobs and $94.58 billion in new economic activity nationwide, the largest figure in the history of the report. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

Our work is far from done—science is still under attack. We’ve got ideas, but we want to hear from you. What’s worrying you most? What should we do next? How can we grow this movement together? Fill out this quick form to share your thoughts & stay connected: forms.gle/7EEQMZUveXN9...

Sad to share news of the loss of a virology legend after a long battle with cancer. We will miss you dearly, Ann Palmenberg. www.cressfuneralservice.com/obituaries/a...

“Perhaps what’s most disheartening is what feels like the absence of widespread opposition to this unraveling. ... This is not a fight that our country can afford to lose.” By Harold Varmus 🧪

Vaccines work! As measles cases have recently been reported in Alaska, Georgia, New York, Rhode Island and Texas, it's important to remember that prior to the introduction of the measles vaccine in 1963, measles killed 400-500 people and resulted in ~48,000 hospitalizations per year.

A statement from the BMA Board Members to the BMA Community and Beyond. Additional alt text to follow due to the character limit.

Joy is resistance. Community is resistance. Continuing to do work we believe in is resistance. Education is resistance. Living aligned with our professed values is resistance. It is a hard time to be a person and a scientist, but now is the time to keep showing up, for ourselves and for each other.

Shoutout to all of the exceptional Black scientists who have contributed to and are currently contributing to virology research! Your work is vitally important to understanding basic virology controlling viral diseases worldwide! #BlackHistoryMonth

DO NOT TAKE YOUR FOOT OFF THE GAS. They balked. Now make them pay a price. Again and again and again. Politics does not end with elections.

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The ASV 2024 abstract submission deadline is approaching (Feb 1st, 2024)! You can submit your abstract and find more information on abstract submission for the ASV 2024 annual meeting here: asv.org/asv2024/abst...

Ending 2023 feeling especially grateful for my science support system. It's been a tough year of unfunded grants and often frustrating experiments, but also great opportunities and realizing my science support network is wider than I ever thought. To my friends, colleagues, and mentors- thank you ☺️

Another grant cycle, another close but not good enough to be funded. Highest percentile I've gotten yet, but impact score not quite there. Onward! As Ted Lasso says, time to be a goldfish. Except I'm not planning to just forget, gotta take the lessons and alter my approach...let's do this.

#HiSciSky ! I'm a postdoc at UW-Madison studying how host-virus interactions influence HCMV infectivity, happy to move to this place. #lovevirology