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Kylee Morrison

@kylee-morrison.bsky.social
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Herpesvirologist. Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Western Michigan University. Recruiting PhD students for Fall 2027! she/her

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Steve Baker @sfbkr.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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
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sfbkr lab
We study how host alternative splicing shapes the outcome of influenza virus infection — from cryptic isoforms that antagonize the polymerase to the ANP32 proteins that support it.
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Kylee Morrison @kylee-morrison.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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...
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
As a recipient of federal grants from #NIH (for now! 😭) that funds research in my lab, I'd like to sincerely thank American taxpayers on #TaxDay for investing in scientific research that lays the foundation for medical and technological innovation in this country and keeps us ALL safe and healthy
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Alexander Price @pricelesssci.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Our lab is hiring for a Research Assistant position! Please repost widely. jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/wistar...
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Job Details | Dayforce Jobs
Find your next adventure
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Mandy Muller @mandymuller.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
🚨 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-...
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Muller Lab
Welcome to the Muller Lab website - here are our latest news:
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American Society for Virology @amersocvirology.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
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.
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Kylee Morrison @kylee-morrison.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Thanks to my awesome undergrads, we officially have immunofluorescence established in the lab 🤩👩‍🔬❤️🧫 (tubulin in 293T)
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American Society for Virology @amersocvirology.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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!
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Kylee Morrison @kylee-morrison.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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 🤩🦠
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Chris Brooke @christopherbrooke.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
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!
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Lisa Akhtar @lisanakhtar.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
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...
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Alexander Price @pricelesssci.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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/...
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Replication-competent adenovirus reporters utilizing endogenous viral expression architecture | Journal of Virology
This research provides powerful new tools to rapidly study adenovirus gene expression and replication. By integrating fluorescent and secreted luciferase reporters into native viral regulatory element...
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Gc Rox @gcrox.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Postdoctoral Position (Please re-post) A funded postdoctoral position, will open in 2026 to study aspects of Neisseria gonorrhoeae pathogenesis, antigenic variation, genetics, or physiology. If interested in more information, please contact Hank Seifert h-seifert@northwestern.edu
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American Society for Virology @amersocvirology.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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...
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Joint Statement Calling for Secretary Kennedy Resignation
The American Society for Microbiology released a joint statement calling for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
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Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.
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Avgousti lab @avgoustilab.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
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...
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Human cytomegalovirus induces neuronal gene expression through IE1 for viral maturation - Nature Communications
HCMV rearranges the host cell to produce infectious virus but molecular details are still unclear. Here, the authors analyze the transcriptome of infected cells and show that HCMV turns on dormant neu...
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Kylee Morrison @kylee-morrison.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
First day of the Morrison Lab at Western Michigan University! 👩🏻‍🔬🧫🧬 Lots of work to do, excited to officially start this chapter!
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Medical Microbiology & Immunology @uwmadisonmmi.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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...
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
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.
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
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).
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Avgousti lab @avgoustilab.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
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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Avgousti Lab
Investigating viral manipulation of host chromatin dynamics
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Priya Shah @whatthefugacity.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Come At Me, Bro | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
I propose an alternate strategy: I shall fight Secretary of Education Linda E. McMahon in a televised cage match, the winner of which gets $2.7 billion in federal grants and the power to uphold or des...
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Kylee Morrison @kylee-morrison.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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! 💛🦠🧫🤎
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 15/05/2025
This is what can be achieved today due to longstanding federal support of academic basic science alongside close partnership of universities, private industry and NIH intramural initiatives. An ecosystem worth not just saving but doubling down on! innovativegenomics.org/news/first-p...
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First Patient Treated with Personalized CRISPR Therapy, Developed in Just Six Months
The first on-demand CRISPR therapy for an infant with a rare metabolic disease developed by the IGI and collaborators around the world.
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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Multiple long-range cis interactions generate CTCF insulator-dependent viral chromatin domains in quiescent HSV-1 genomes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Jo Handelsman, PhD @johandelsman.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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...
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CLS Calls on the Trump Administration to Restore Research Funding - The Coalition for the Life Sciences
On April 14, 2025, CLS Chair Jo Handelsman and Exec Director Adrienne Hallett sent a letter outlining the tremendous consequences of terminating research and asking that it be reinstated.
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Julie Pfeiffer @jkpfeiff.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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...
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Terrence S. Dermody and Julie K. Pfeiffer: To tackle chronic disease, turn to the virologists
Despite the United States being a global leader in many areas, Americans are not healthy. Life expectancy is lower than in other industrialized nations,...
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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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Aaron and the Hoskins Lab at UW Madison @uwmadisonrna.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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Prospective UW-Madison grad students lose funding offers amid federal cuts
Students enrolled in science Ph.D programs are typically paid and have their tuition covered. But with current federal funding uncertainties driven by the Trump administration, faculty scientists said...
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Igor Brodsky @brodskyigorlab.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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...
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NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report
National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 10/03/2025
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...
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How do we keep Standing Up for Science?
A heartfelt thank you for everyone that Stood Up for Science with us on March 7th—whether it be volunteering, donating, sharing, or attending in event, we're forever indebted to people like you who ca...
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Nate Sherer @natesherer.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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...
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Ann Carol Palmenberg, Ph.D Obituary February 20, 2025 - Cress Funeral and Cremation Services
View Ann Carol Palmenberg, Ph.D's obituary, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 18/02/2025
In today's episode of doomerism isn't a strategy, here's a list of things you can do today to make the world around you suck a little bit less: Pick ONE thing and do it. bsky.app/profile/itsa...
What are some actions you can take TODAY?

Become a “Friend of the Library”
Call your state representatives 
Boycott businesses rolling back DEI
Read & fund independent journalists and magazines
Join a Mutual Aid network  
Donate to environmental justice organizations
Support minority authors and artists 
Pass out Know Your Rights cards to the undocumented
Organize a local or school-based protest
Follow, elevate, and fund minority voices online
Donate to reproductive justice organizations
Volunteer at homeless or DV shelters
Send money to your local food banks 
Join the local school board 
Attend town hall meetings and voice your opinion
Start book clubs centered on Black history
Fundraise for supplies K-12 teachers may need
Donate to legal funds that protect LGBTQ+ people
Start a scholarship for underserved students
Host community action conversations 
Work on research about the marginalized
Integrate DEI into every part of your business
Migrate from Twitter to Bluesky (it’s so good)
Support businesses that stand by humanity
Stand up to people bullying the vulnerable
Donate to Public Citizen and federal worker unions
Find joy in the in between and don’t lose hope
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
“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 🧪
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Opinion | American Science is Under Attack
The Trump administration hobbles research and endangers the public health.
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American Society for Virology @amersocvirology.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
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.
Graph showing that prior to 1963 when the measles vaccine was introduced, there were around 300,000-700,000 measles cases per year. Within a few years of the vaccine, the number of cases fell below 20,000/year. There were a blips where cases rose, but shortly after the second vaccine dose was recommended in 1989, annual cases have generally been well below 1,000 cases. In 2000, measles elimination was declared in the US. Now we have sporadic outbreaks that typically spread among unvaccinated people. Chart is from Center for American Progress and is based on CDC data on measles cases.
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Black Microbiologists Assoc (Black In Micro) @blackinmicro.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
A statement from the BMA Board Members to the BMA Community and Beyond. Additional alt text to follow due to the character limit.
The statement reads: We are disappointed in the rapid capitulation by some U.S. institutions and organizations to recent attacks on diversity, equity, inclusion, and access. At their core, these weak arguments are fueled by the familiar underlying assumption that people from Black, Indigenous, and other marginalized identities cannot be excellent and therefore have not ‘earned’ our place in public intellectual life. However, we have always been competent, hardworking, and creative people who have contributed positively to society at large, across sectors but especially in science. We reject these attempts at silencing and erasure and will continue to be a place of respite and community in these turbulent times. 

To our members, your talent, skills, and safety are important! To our friends and allies, you may be feeling like everything happening is out of your control, but we want you to know that your voice and actions can make a difference. We want to point you towards some immediate actions that you can take. These are the top 3 issues we are concerned about and what you can do about it if you mirror our concerns.

Freezing of federal funding and cutting grant programs for scientific research that have any connotation of being “DEI.”
The potential confirmation of RFK Jr., a vocal anti-vaccination proponent, as the head of HHS.
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) removed their ABRCMS and IDEAAS webpages in addition to some scientist spotlights and written articles highlighting the current and historic contributions of microbiologists who are a part of marginalized communities including LGBTQIA+, Women, Indigenous and Black, as well as others page that could be considered “‘DEI”. Many have now been reinstated with changes to language (i.e. removing terms like “equity” and “marginalized”), and the statements released by ASM did not acknowledge the harm that they have caused to their members and showed no remorse for their actions.
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Kylee Morrison @kylee-morrison.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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.
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Jennifer Goff, PhD @jlgoff.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Happy Black History Month! I’m not sure if ASM is celebrating this year, so I’ll share some links to ASM resources I had previously collated on black women in microbiology that are now deleted (or at risk of being deleted). Deleted content can be viewed via the internet archive (links provided).
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American Society for Virology @amersocvirology.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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
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Brian Wasik @brianrwasik.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
This is a critically important point
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American Society for Virology @amersocvirology.bsky.social · 17/01/2024
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...
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Kylee Morrison @kylee-morrison.bsky.social · 22/12/2023
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 ☺️
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Kylee Morrison @kylee-morrison.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
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.
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Kylee Morrison @kylee-morrison.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
#HiSciSky ! I'm a postdoc at UW-Madison studying how host-virus interactions influence HCMV infectivity, happy to move to this place. #lovevirology
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