Our lab hosted Dr. Stephanie Shames for our department seminar series yesterday. Thanks for giving such a phenomenonal talk and we hope you enjoyed your time at HMS!

Our lab is seeking to hire a scientific writer/project manager to help support our exciting research! Please see the add below and get in touch if you're interested!

abrahamlab.med.harvard.edu/open-positions/

Super exciting lineup of top notch spatial folks! Can’t wait to see everyone in person! Esp Candace Liu 🙌

I’m so excited to share Matty Allan great work with support of many lab members now on BioRxiv ! If you are interested in RNA structure , must try SEISMIC : biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Roney (Ian Roney) & Rudner uncovered how bacteria prioritize the use of their lipid carrier for peptidoglycan synthesis.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38683856/

In the latest issue! Elliott Dan Kieff, MD, PhD (1943–2024) dlvr.it/T5Wy2G

I’m very proud of our work using machine learning to predict RNA structure. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… as well as our new database rnandria.org . Special shout out to RNArtist who made beautiful drawings ! It was a giant effort and a great team 💕

Happy 60th Anniversary Epstein-Barr virus! Look forward to celebrating it at the upcoming Joint EBV/KSHV Meeting June 29-July 3. Early bird registration deadline is April 10.
Also, a shout-out to a Podcast with Lawrence Young on the history of EBV's discovery

How do you study the mechanisms by which viruses cause hearing loss when the inner ear is encased in bone? New work from the Gehrke lab (leegehrkelab.org) details a model system to do just that! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Whats the physiological role of tumor viruses? How do we systematically study the tissue microenvironment in a spatially iterative fashion?

Well here's a fun paper! By YaoYu Yeo Huaying Bokai Zhu Yunhao, w/ Margaret Shipp, Scott Rodig & more
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New work from the Knipe laboratory has found that the cellular protein Sp1 aids herpes simplex virus infection under adverse conditions. Studying how HSV uses cellular proteins during infection can help identify novel ways to treat or prevent infection: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Come join us for the 3rd Joint Symposia on Epstein-Barr Virus, Kaposi's Sarcoma Associated Herpesvirus and related agents in Boston, June 29-July 3. Meeting website ebv.ksvirus.org
Registration is now open. Abstract submission deadline is March 4

The Hochschild lab and Harvard Med Cell Bio Wade Harper develop an unbiased proteomic approach to investigate the spectrum of translational frameshifting errors by bacterial ribosomes, revealing an unexpected degree of mechanistic diversity: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

BrrRRrr! ❄️☃️It's cold out! Even COOLER news:
SAVE THE DATE 🗓️📢
BBM 2024 will be held June 3-4th, 2024 at the Boston University campus! This year will be the 30th anniversary🔥 feat. keynote speaker Joe Bondy-Denomy🇨🇦of UCSF who studies the coolest phages😎❄️ around!

Many of the speakers are your X favs!!!

@AbrahamLabHMS
Hadi Yassine 🌾 Virology
Ana Fernandez-Sesma
James Crowe
Eva Harris
Timothy Sheahan
&&& many many more!!! 🦠

Germinal Center Cytokines Driven Epigenetic Control of Epstein-Barr Virus Latency Gene Expression biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

Join us! Postdoctoral position available in microbial pathogenesis and innate immune response.
goldberglab.med.harvard.edu
Email CV, cover letter, name & contact of 3 scientific references to [email protected]

Our postdoc, He Sun, gave a phenomenal presentation today at Monday Talk! 🎉

Journey into the microscopic realm of virology in a new PNASNews QnAs with #NASmember David Knipe, who explains his groundbreaking work that has illuminated how DNA viruses infect and manipulate host cells. Read it here: ow.ly/mMQi50Q9wBz

Sadie Antine, Sadie Antine, in the Kranzusch lab (kranzuschlab.med.harvard.edu) reveals the structural basis of Gabija anti-phage defense and how phages form an incredible octameric web to evade host immunity nature nature.com/articles/s4158…