Nate Sherer

New pre-print and tool alert ! This one addressing a long-standing viromics issue: we were missing a tool that can reliably assign broad host categories (e.g. prokaryote vs eukaryote) to novel viruses. VHAMSTeR is now available for this thanks to very talented postdoc @susiegriggo.bsky.social !!

Recruiting a PhD student! Do you like viruses? Torn between lab and field work? Wanting to understand viral disease across multiple hosts? Join my new lab @uvmvermont.bsky.social! See details at www.HonceLab.com

The Belgian team is about to finish yard 120 which means that they've been running for 5 days now. I'm trying to think of what I could do for that long. I survived Big Cypress so I could probably see 36-48 hours of Phish, but 120 hours with a power nap at the end of each hour? No way!

Job! 🤩👀👇🏽

👋Meet Our Researchers: John Williams “Viruses are like super cool little beasts. Plus, disease always involves the virus and the host – that biological conversation fascinates me.” mmi.wisc.edu/meet-our-res...

It's happening! NYUGSM Microbiology is hiring and I'd love to see more bacteriology here! Please repost and spread the word!

Study: Mothers vaccinated against HPV before pregnancy less likely to give birth prematurely The study doesn’t prove cause and effect, but does find an association between early vaccination and lower risks of pregnancy complications Read more: https://bit.ly/4iai34L

6 days to register a comment on NIH Request for Information (RFI) on Changing Reporting Outcomes for Peer Review. They are proposing to hide the impact scores and percentiles. 🤔 funding decisions will not be transparent👎🏼. Register a comment while you still can rfi.grants.nih.gov?s=6a2b1c22c3...

Congratulations to Francis Halzen, UW–Madison professor of physics and principal investigator of @icecubeneutrino.bsky.social, on being named the 2026 Nobel Laureate in physics. His work helped unlock new ways of understanding the universe and the particles known as neutrinos. @nobelprize.org

Congratulations to Francis, my friend and colleague! I am happy to see his bold vision and tenacity honored at the highest level. I took his class @uwmadison.bsky.social, taught from his book, and now I’m proud to be his colleague. His enthusiasm has never waned, he is a timeless physicist.

I am glad to have lived to see this happy day for a splendid and kind person

Talk about a bright idea! 💡 Congrats to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel on the #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine for foundational discoveries in optogenetics. All three openly share their remarkable tools through Addgene. Explore the tools:

Virology friends: come work with me at UVA! Now hiring a professor of virology (open rank): apply.interfolio.com/191946

My first PhD student is defending his dissertation in two weeks!! There will be mouse genetics, there will be retroviruses, there will be B and T cells, there will be champagne, there will be me trying (and likely failing) not to cry the whole time.

TT Assistant Professor position in Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease at University of Florida

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

Exciting news: @uwgenome.bsky.social will be hiring for two tenure-track faculty positions this year, one open rank and one assistant professor. Both are “Genome Sciences” interpreted broadly so we welcome applicants working in a variety of fields and methods. Ad will be out shortly.

Happy to see that Sen. McCormick is calling for DOUBLING the NIH budget for research. Grateful for his virtual townhall for PA scientists. wapo.st/4hlaoz4 🎁

And Congress has fought for NIH (thanks to @murray.senate.gov and @baldwin.senate.gov and @pallone.house.gov especially), and lots of outside advocates have done a lot. But more can still be done.

Statement from @murray.senate.gov and the Senate Appropriations committee about Vought takeover plan. www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minorit...

Postdoctoral scientist or early career faculty? Registration is now open for our #FreemanHrabowski Scholars & #HannaGray Fellows Programs! Register to check your eligibility & unlock resources like 1:1 office hours, example research proposals, & more. Link on your program page at hhmi.org/programs 🧪

Go @jayeperview.bsky.social !!

The Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin has two open positions for assistant professors, one in evolutionary biology and one in mechanistic processes. Please share. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/193270

Nominations are open for the ASV Ann Palmenberg Junior Investigator Award! www.asv.org/ann-palmenbe...

UNC Greensboro Department of Biology is hiring for three positions this year including one in microbiology! spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/35918

We are hiring! 🌟 Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor. It's a broad search: we want great colleagues doing serious biological work at the molecular scale. Join us! apply.interfolio.com/191981 bcmb.uchicago.edu

Come be my colleague! Montreal is a great place to live and work! Tenure Track position at @mcgill.ca in quantitative cell biology with a research program to address fundamental questions in biology. @futurepislack.bsky.social mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...

👋 Imaging scientists & clinicians: New study reports first observations of the metabolic state of single immune cells across complex peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) samples using a nondestructive analysis called optical metabolic imaging. Learn more: morgridge.org/story/new-im...

virologyunmasked.com/michael-emerman/ This month's titan of virology and vaccinology. Dr. Michael Emerman. Dr. Emerman is an HIV researcher who helped unlock its molecular mysterious. He is also a pioneer in the field of 'plaleovirology' and a mentor to over 100 students! @memerman.bsky.social

Congratulations to Wallace Marshall of UCSF, recipient of the 2026 Keith R. Porter Lecture, honoring innovative leaders advancing our understanding of cell biology. https://www.ascb.org/society-news/ascb-announces-2026-honorific-award-winners/

UMass Amherst Dept of Biology is hiring a TT faculty member in Evolutionary Biology! careers.umass.edu/jobs/assista... We have a diverse and wonderful dept - please consider joining us!

Open your lab here at Utah! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/208...

Check out our paper on ESCRTs in large DNA viruses. Most enveloped viruses use the host #ESCRT for envelopment, but only mirusviruses and nucleocytoviricots encode it! Congrats @sonaida.bsky.social, @tomdelmont.bsky.social, Ulysse Guyet & Eugene Koonin. @pasteur.fr www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Meet Marianne Fairbanks from design studies. The unified focus of her work is textiles and the role they will play in the future of our society.

Watch: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 Wisconsin Department of Health Services state epidemiologist Dr. Ryan Westergaard describes a measles outbreak in southwest areas of the state and the impacts of falling childhood vaccination rates.

A personalized mRNA vaccine for melanoma reduced the risk of the cancer returning go.nature.com/4x7kqud

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...

For faculty looking to fulfill NIH's mentor training requirements on their training grant submissions, here are CIMER's upcoming offerings. Let me know if you want the interactive PDF version of the flyer to share around, or if you want the registration link to a specific training! 🧪

Thrilled to be co-organising a symposium dedicated to Endogenous viral elements! Together with @thekatybrown.bsky.social , @rtarlinton.bsky.social and the Royal Society we will host a two day event in Birmingham, UK in February 2026. Register below to attend! royalsociety.org/science-even...

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

JVI is seeking applications for its New Voices in Virology 2027 minireview collection. This special collection recognizes the future leaders in virology as it highlights their research contributions across the entire breadth of virology. Apply now! journals.asm.org/journal/jvi/...

Come work with me! We're hiring a vertebrate biologist! I'm on the search committee, and happy to answer questions. (Butler University, Indianapolis, IN). Please spread the word! fa-exer-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Reposting again! Deadline is coming up!

Stanford Medicine’s Microbiology & Immunology Department (my home department) opened a job search for a tenure-track assistant professor position. Candidates interested in any and all areas of microbiology and/or immunology are encouraged to apply. facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...

One thing I love about the Drosophila community is its collegiality. FlyCROSS pairs early & mid- career scientists in our community with experienced mentors who help them navigate the world of fly research while offering seasoned researchers an chance to share their knowledge & pay it forward 1/n

During these awful times it’s always great when something amazing like this pops up on the timeline to give you hope for better days ahead