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Alison McBride

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Patrick Dolan @ptdolan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Jack Dorman, @williambakhache.bsky.social and I wrote a review of #DeepMutationalScanning ( #DMS ) applications in #virology, exploring the ways it’s been used to understand the rules of #virus #evolution and #immunity. We also explore new applications of the technology. Check it out!
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Scanning the horizon: deep mutational scanning approaches in virology | Journal of Virology
The development of deep mutational scanning (DMS) approaches has led to a fundamental shift in our ability to connect viral genotype and phenotype (1) and accelerated our understanding of viral evolut...
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Alison McBride @hobbesmcb.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Latest work from our lab from Ashley Della Fera 😀
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Alison McBride @hobbesmcb.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Honored that our latest study was chosen as Paper of the Week by IPVS. It was spearheaded by student Jonathan Shin with the help of great collaborators 😄
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Chelsey Spriggs @drsprggs.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
So proud of my first graduate student for successfully defending her thesis yesterday! Karen is an incredible scientist with a ton of consulting experience. If you know of any life science industry/consulting agencies in the LA area who are hiring, let me know 🤗
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Gabe Starrett @starrett.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
If anyone is looking for a lab technician/manager with nucleic acid isolation, library prep, and sequencing analysis experience preferably in the DMV, my former biologist is looking for a job. She was unfortunately terminated in Feb as part of the probationary employee firings. DM me for her info
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Alison McBride @hobbesmcb.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Latest study from our lab spearheaded by Ashley Della Fera and Warda Arman
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bioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Sp100A isoform promotes HIRA histone chaperone localization to PML nuclear bodies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Mandy Muller @mandymuller.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
For my first official post on here I have some news to share: the lab is moving! After ~12 wonderful years in the US, Muller lab 2.0 will reopen this summer at the Institute of Microbiology in Lausanne🇨🇭Switzerland🇨🇭! We'll be recruiting at all levels so keep us in mind for your future adventures!
Vue sur la Cité, le lac , les Alpes, Lausanne -- Fotograf: Regis Colombo 2014
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Anne Simon 🧪🌱🐴🦠🍊🇨🇦🇺🇦 @annealiz1.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCP/job/Uni... 🧪 Please Retweet! Great open rank position available for Ecology and Evolutionary Biologist using microbial systems in the Biology Department at the University of Maryland, College Park (the main campus). A great place to live and work!
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Open Rank - Assistant/Associate/Full Professor
Job Description Summary Organization Summary Statement The Department of Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD), invites applications from individuals studying fundamental questions...
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Alison McBride @hobbesmcb.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
A great opportunity!
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Karolin Luger @nucleosomepolice.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
this is now published y'all #giantvirus academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
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BFVD—a large repository of predicted viral protein structures
Abstract. The AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (AFDB) is the largest repository of accurately predicted structures with taxonomic labels. Despite provi
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Zhilong Yang @zhilong.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
New book on poxvirus methods and protocols. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Vaccinia, Mpox, and Other Poxviruses
This book covers methods for vaccinia virus, as well as mpox virus, lumpy skin disease virus, and myxoma virus.
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Patrick Dolan @ptdolan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Excited to have this second paper out from the QVEU! Postdoc @williambakhache.bsky.social led this effort along with @orrwalk.bsky.social and Lauren McCormick to explore the tolerance of the Enterovirus EV-A71 to substitutions, insertions, and deletions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Deep mutation, insertion and deletion scanning across the Enterovirus A proteome reveals constraints shaping viral evolution - Nature Microbiology
Deep mutational scanning of Enterovirus A71 maps and quantifies the impact of genomic insertions, deletions and substitutions on virus fitness and highlights the role of insertions and deletions in th...
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Jack Ferguson @jackf7.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
MIBTP PhD projects are live and I have a project open for applications! The project is looking at co-infection of the tonsils with HPV and Staph A. Get in touch if you have any questions and apply here - warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
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Greer Burkholder @greerb.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
NIH BioArt Source, a free science and biomedical art resource library created by professional medical illustrators for researchers, students, and other science communicators, is now available from NIAID. #IDSky go.nih.gov/SLWQFNz
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