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Helen Lazear @lazearlab.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Lazear Lab at SERVC 2026! It was great to have the opportunity to share our work with our regional virology community! @servc.bsky.social @mdedloff.bsky.social @cormac-lucas.bsky.social @celeste-robles.bsky.social @monicareece.bsky.social @abbieweight.bsky.social @joelrc.bsky.social

Lazear Lab at the 2026 Southeastern Regional Virology Conference in Atlanta. They are standing together, wearing conference name badges. They look happy and proud of all the great presentations from the lab.

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Helen Lazear @lazearlab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

So many accomplishments to celebrate as we close out this academic year! I'm so lucky to get to work with these awesome folks in the Lazear Lab! @mdedloff.bsky.social @nigelmgo.bsky.social @abbieweight.bsky.social @viralvibes365.bsky.social @monicareece.bsky.social

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

A huge new NIH-funded clinical trial of 20,000 girls has shown that a single dose of HPV vaccine yields the same response as two doses after 4.5 years. This is critical to public health efforts to save lives with this vaccine. Yes. We still have to battle RFK Jr. to ensure access to HPV vaccine.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

If they proceed with this plan, it will effectively choke whatever life is left out of the health research academic community. To put it bluntly it will kill any possibility of a grant funded career doing health research in the U.S. www.statnews.com/2025/04/21/t...

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NIH moving to ban all future grants to universities with DEI programs or Israel boycotts, document suggests

NIH appears to be preparing to prohibit the awarding of new grants to institutions that have DEI programs or boycott Israeli companies

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AF the Virologist @afthescientist.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Attn foreign students:

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Richard Corsi @corsiaq.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Old friend just laid off by USDA, 1 mos short of his probationary period as senior researcher. Brilliant person who left a tenured faculty position several yrs ago to join USDA. Bright early-career researchers also being laid off. USDA is terminating a generation of highly-qualified scientists.

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Monica Reece, PhD @monicareece.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Had a wonderful first day as a post-doc in the @lazearlab.bsky.social! I'm excited to get started and be part of the amazing work here!

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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

The clarity is absolutely spectacular…..The Pillars of Creation by the James Webb Space Telescope 💫😲💫✨💫💙💫

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POZ Magazine @pozmagazine.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Metformin May Help Shrink HIV Viral Reservoir: The diabetes drug could potentially be used as part of a “shock and kill” strategy to achieve a functional #cure for #HIV. www.poz.com/article/metf...

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Metformin May Help Shrink HIV Viral Reservoir

The diabetes drug could potentially be used as part of a “shock and kill” strategy to achieve a functional cure for HIV.

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Concerning data showing spike in heart defects in babies born after pandemic- possibly links to growing evidence of cardiovascular disease and diabetes risks pose-Covid in unvaccinated children and adults 🧪

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Pandemic linked to 16% rise in babies born with heart defects

The proportion of babies born with a congenital heart abnormality increased by 16 per cent after the first year of the pandemic, according to research at City St George's, University of London and pub...

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University of Colorado Anschutz @cuanschutz.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

#CUAnschutz researchers are among the first to recognize how Herpes simplex virus type 1 infiltrates the brain, leading to a better understanding of how it may trigger neurological diseases. The study was recently published in the Journal of Virology. ⬇️🧠

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Silent Intruder: How the Cold Sore Virus Maps its Way Through the Brain

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