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Mel Symeonides

@msymeonides.bsky.social

237 followers 278 following 48 posts

Assistant Prof at the University of Vermont, interested in HIV latency, syncytia, placenta etc. Opinions = my own.

Mel Symeonides @msymeonides.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Posting on behalf of Nate Roy (www.roybiolab.org): Nate and his group wanted a simple, quick, no frills spectral viewer with everything, so they made one. Importantly, there are no cookies (= no extra clicks!). Here it is: fluoromore.com Reach out to him about any bugs/issues to fix.

fluoromore.com

FluoroMORE

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Mel Symeonides @msymeonides.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The Symeonides lab had four remarkably talented undergraduate researchers finish their degrees this year. This thread will highlight them (in no particular order) and their work:

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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

How HIV research drives health innovation in multiple diseases The future of HIV research — and of the USA’s scientific leadership — depends on bold, sustained action in defense of discovery, investment, and innovation. www.nature.com/artic... 1/2

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How HIV research drives health innovation in multiple diseases | Nature Medicine

The future of HIV research — and of the USA’s scientific leadership — depends on bold, sustained action in defense of discovery, investment, and innovation.

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Mel Symeonides @msymeonides.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Three abstracts submitted for CSH Retroviruses this year! Particularly excited about one of them as it came together in the nick of time, but all three are going to be bangers.

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Mel Symeonides @msymeonides.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

What if the indirect cost model is truly broken and wasteful... AND the idea that it would be cut to 15% across the board with 3 days' notice is just about the worst way possible to address this problem?

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Mel Symeonides @msymeonides.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Quoting this paper: Viral rebound has also been described in untreated individuals (24, 25), but often at a lower frequency compared with N-R treated individuals regardless of rebound definition (6, 17, 19, 20, 22, 23, 26, 27).

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Mel Symeonides @msymeonides.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

I can't decide what's worse when coding with ChatGPT: ChatGPT-4 being maliciously lazy, or ChatGPT-3.5 being just straight dumb? Either way, what a waste of time (and money).

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Mel Symeonides @msymeonides.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

Dear Outlook, no I do not want to send a read receipt for an email I just marked as Junk.

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Mel Symeonides @msymeonides.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

I have my issues with FlowJo, but the new version that just came out with spectral plots is pretty damn cool!!!

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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

My "Friends don't let friends make bad graphs" repository has reached 1000+ stars on GitHub! I can't believe it! Thanks everyone for the interest and support. Gonna add this to my CV. 😂😂😂 github.com/cxli233/Frie...

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Mel Symeonides @msymeonides.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

Note to self: Clone the damn thing in the right way round next time. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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Mel Symeonides @msymeonides.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

This place is so much better than X (cesspool of misinfo and rage) and Mastodon (deader than the actual animal it's named after). Let's get all the good people over here!

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