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Keystone Symposia @keystonesymposia.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

👏 Congrats to the 26 scholarship recipients at our Viral Pathogenesis and Immunity conference this week — made possible by our generous donors: 🌟 @gatesfoundation.bsky.social 🌟 @bwfund.bsky.social 🌟 @clevelandclinic.bsky.social 🌟 @volkswagenstiftung.de

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Keystone Symposia @keystonesymposia.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

In-person is sold out for Viral Pathogenesis & Immunity. Livestream access is still open. Join leading scientists sharing the latest in viral immunity, host–virus biology, and vaccines. June 15–18, 2026. From your lab or office: keysym.us/KSViral26. #KSViral26 @profvolkerthiel.bsky.social

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Karim Majzoub @karimaj.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

"Beyond hepatitis D virus: the discovery of animal deltaviruses, their diversity, helpers and their position in an expanding world of circular RNA replicons " , enjoy a fresh review coming out from our lab (Zoé Denis, an amazing PhD student as first author) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Multidisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases (MCID) @mcid-unibe.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Last week, the EPL team participated in the NRP79 3R Fair in Fribourg, an exchange platform on 3R principles in animal research. The team presented their work on the political & ethical analysis of the animal testing debate and engaged in rich exchanges on future directions. tinyurl.com/ycfkp6tz

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SIRD - Swiss Initiative for RNA & Disease @swissinitiativerna.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Preprint by the Leidel, Thiel & Pillai labs with co-1st authors R. Pandey & N. Ebert "Loss of host factor-mediated m6Am methylation of the viral RNA cap impairs SARS CoV-2 replication" @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social doi.org/10.64898/202... @profvolkerthiel.bsky.social @mcm5s2u.bsky.social @unibe.ch

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Kreylab @kreylab.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Very excited to share the first announcement of our international VISION symposium on integrated structural virology! Looking forward to see many of you in Hamburg!

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Keystone Symposia @keystonesymposia.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

🚨 Save $250 on registration! 🚨 Register by April 16 (11:59 PM MST) Join Viral Pathogenesis & Immunity this June in Hannover, Germany 🇩🇪 🧬 Host–virus interactions 🦠 Emerging pathogens 💉 Vaccine innovation 🎥 youtu.be/DuwcwCJNv50 📝 keysym.us/KSViral26 #KSViral26 @profvolkerthiel.bsky.social

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Universität Bern @unibe.ch · 07/04/2026

🌍🩺On today’s #WorldHealthDay: Five years after COVID, the origin of the virus still remains inconclusive🦠 As a member of a WHO expert panel, Kathrin Summermatter #unibern helped to scientifically assess the current state of knowledge: 🔗 sohub.io/iepd

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Philipp Markolin @philippmarkolin.eurosky.social · 06/04/2026

Our documentary movie #Blame comes to German cinemas in 10 days. If you want to see some of the unique footage, @3sat.zdf.social.ap.brid.gy Nano has some nice material for their reportage. Check out these 3 clips (I added EN translations) 1/

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Universität Bern @unibe.ch · 07/04/2026

🌍🩺Zum heutigen Weltgesundheitstag: 5 Jahre nach Covid ist der Ursprung des Virus weiterhin nicht abschliessend geklärt. 🦠 Als Teil eines WHO-Expertengremiums hat Kathrin Summermatter #unibern dazu beigetragen den aktuellen Wissensstand wissenschaftlich einzuordnen: 🔗 sohub.io/fdt2 #WorldHealthDay

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Multidisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases (MCID) @mcid-unibe.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

🎉 Happy 5th Birthday to the MCID! 🎂 On 18 Jan 2026, the Center celebrated five years since its launch 🚀 To mark the milestone, we prepared a special anniversary edition of The SPREAD, reflecting on achievements and looking ahead to the future. Thank you to everyone who has been part of the journey!

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Mart Krupovic @mkrupovic.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

With Eugene Koonin, we propose a concept of “the selfish ribosome”, under which evolution of life is viewed as a ribosomal takeover, where the ribosome evolved to consume most of the cell’s resources, while other cellular componentry ensures the propagation of the ribosome. arxiv.org/abs/2602.23268

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Multidisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases (MCID) @mcid-unibe.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

🌟 Excited to welcome our new MCID PhD cohort! 🌟 Last week we met for coffee&cookies at MCID HQ as our incoming students kick off their PhD journey with us. They’ll join the newly funded projects that recently began, and we can’t wait to see the innovative work and impact they’ll bring.

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Multidisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases (MCID) @mcid-unibe.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Afterwards a panel discussion was moderated by Caroline Schlaufer featuring film director Christian Frei, biosafety expert Kathrin Summermatter & virologist @profvolkerthiel.bsky.social. The audience posed great questions on funding, biosafety & media polarisation.

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Multidisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases (MCID) @mcid-unibe.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

On 11th Feb, the MCID, Swiss Biorisk Alliance & Institute of Infectious Disease hosted a full-house preview of Blame, the new documentary by Christian Frei. The film, centred on COVID-19, explores virology, public trust & political discourse. 👉 www.blame-documentary.com

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Keystone Symposia @keystonesymposia.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

⏰ Deadline Feb. 11 (11:59 PM MST)! Submit scholarship applications and/or short talk abstracts for Viral Pathogenesis & Immunity in Hannover, Germany. 🎥 Organizer Michaela Gack: youtu.be/DuwcwCJNv50 🔗 Apply: keysym.us/KSViral26 @profvolkerthiel.bsky.social #KSViral26 #Virology #ViralImmunity

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Multidisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases (MCID) @mcid-unibe.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Our panel (Theres Luethi, Alinna Zumbrunn, @philippmarkolin.bsky.social, Tobias Rohrbach) sparked great discussion on science communication in a polarised world. Expertly chaired by MCID’s Carmen @labfaso.bsky.social and @profvolkerthiel.bsky.social .

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Multidisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases (MCID) @mcid-unibe.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Great energy at the MCID Annual Event 2025 last Friday, despite the season’s first snowfall❄️, almost 100 participants joined us. We kicked off with keynotes on vector-borne disease surveillance and heard rapid-fire talks on respiratory viruses, TBE, AMR, and COVID-19–related research.

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Multidisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases (MCID) @mcid-unibe.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Congrats to MCID members Georgia Salanti and @profvolkerthiel.bsky.social who are named among this year’s Highly Cited Researchers! Their work ranks in the top 1% by citations, highlighting sustained excellence and wide-ranging impact. @ispm.unibe.ch @medfacultyunibe.bsky.social @unibe.ch

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Theres Luethi @theresluethi.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Stammt #Covid aus einem chinesischen Labor oder entstand das Coronavirus durch natürliche Übertragung vom Tier auf den Menschen? In den USA glauben zwei Drittel der Leute, dass Covid aus dem Labor kam. In Europa dürfte es ähnlich sein. Kein Wunder: Die Medien ... www.bazonline.ch/covid-warum-...

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Eine dunkle Vermutung über Corona grassiert – und ist so ansteckend wie das Virus

Zunehmend berichten auch seriöse Medien über die sogenannte Laborthese. Demnach wurde der Erreger künstlich hergestellt. Was ist an der These dran?

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PTPP lab-University of Bern @labfaso.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

It has always only been a matter of time.... @mcid-unibe.bsky.social @profvolkerthiel.bsky.social @unibe.ch Mosquito-borne viruses surge in a warming Europe | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

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Mosquito-borne viruses surge in a warming Europe

Chikungunya cases break records in France; West Nile virus appears near Rome

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SIRD - Swiss Initiative for RNA & Disease @swissinitiativerna.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

🌙🔬 Our “RNA – Master of Versatility” booth at Nacht der Forschung 2025 was a hit! Big thanks to our Science Knights and amazing organizers. 💙🙌 Read more: nccr-rna-and-disease.ch/news/article... #ndfunibern @unibe.ch

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Multidisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases (MCID) @mcid-unibe.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

✨ We are proud to have taken part again in the Nacht der Forschung @unibe.ch ✨ 🔬 Highlights included a focus on MCID-funded research, interactive pathogen posters as well as “make your own pathogen” & the legendary Splat the Bacteria 🦠💥 Great to be sparking curiosity & connecting with the public ❤️

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Multidisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases (MCID) @mcid-unibe.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Many thanks to our team of volunteers, the @bereadycohort.bsky.social, the Ethics and Policy team and our VR Pandemic Control Centre. Your contributions and hard work made it a really fun and worthwhile event! #ndfunibern

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SIRD - Swiss Initiative for RNA & Disease @swissinitiativerna.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

🔬✨ Join us this Saturday (September 6) | 16:00-23:00 at Nacht der Forschung 2025 at the University of Bern ✨ Come and check out our booth "RNA – Master of Versatility" 👩‍🔬 Meet our researchers & enjoy pipetted cocktails at the reproduzierBAR! www.nachtderforschung.unibe.ch #ndfunibern @unibe.ch

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SIRD - Swiss Initiative for RNA & Disease @swissinitiativerna.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Preprint by the Thiel, Heller&Chao labs w/1st author Reto Lang "Stress granules formed during different RNA virus infections show remarkable plasticity &substantial virus-specific differences in their formation&composition" @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social buff.ly/vU7Tdg6 @profvolkerthiel.bsky.social

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Multidisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases (MCID) @mcid-unibe.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

The MCID funded a study by the IKMB @unibe.ch to track how conspiracies start, spread & the role of the media to stop them. Journalists and Researchers discussed findings and raised new questions in a May workshop. Read the UniAktuell article here: bit.ly/3Hy7V6m #MCID #Research #Journalism

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Dealing with conspiracy theories: debunking works

During the pandemic, Bern-based researchers conducted real-time analyses to determine how the media can most effectively curb conspiracy theories. A workshop for journalists brought together the world...

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Philipp Markolin @philippmarkolin.eurosky.social · 01/08/2025

Happy August. Here is a little surprise for everybody: The english version of my book is finally available. You can get it on Amazon. You can also read and listen to it on my blog, where I will release the book as freely accessible serialized novel. 1/ www.protagonist-science.com/p/lab-leak-f...

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Lab Leak Fever

The COVID-19 Origin Theory that Sabotaged Science and Society

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BEready Cohort @bereadycohort.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Wir sind jetzt 1000 Haushalte gross!!

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Multidisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases (MCID) @mcid-unibe.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Great to see the new publication from the MCID's co-lead @profvolkerthiel.bsky.social is out. His team has been working for a number of years developing a live attenuated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. They present the next steps demonstrating the efficacy, safety and stability of their candidate vaccine.

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Beate Sodeik @beatesodeiklab.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Leseempfehlung! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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Lisa T @drlisathomann.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Great discussions in Prague at the 2nd #PanViPrep meeting. @profvolkerthiel.bsky.social shared updates on our MERS and seasonal CoVs research while I talked about EU compliance in ethics and animal welfare. We also found the Prague “Zytglögge”. What a great city!

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Multidisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases (MCID) @mcid-unibe.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

@mcid-unibe.bsky.social and IVI welcomed the Swiss Klub für Wissenschaftsjournalismus. @profvolkerthiel.bsky.social kicked off with an intro to the MCID, followed by the @bereadycohort.bsky.social study, an IVI spotlight, and rounded off with a lively Q&A session. #ScienceJournalism @unibe.ch

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Vera Flück @veflu.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

After we heard @profvolkerthiel.bsky.social giving a spontaneous but great talk about novel technologies in virus research many of us had a fantastic poster session with stimulating discussions and a nice glass of wine. We even found a table soccer table to have our weekly training⚽

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Vera Flück @veflu.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

We have traveled with multiple trains🚆, two ferries🛳️, and a bus🚌 to the #ECV meeting in Cavtat Croatia🌞 We are looking forward to hear great science about our favorite viruses in one of the most beautiful places 🎯 @sarah-oc.bsky.social @profvolkerthiel.bsky.social @mcid-unibe.bsky.social

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Volker Thiel @profvolkerthiel.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The question of the origin of #SARS-CoV-2 is a matter of significant scientific and public interest. Current publicly available data suggests a natural origin, while evidence supporting a lab origin remains scarce. Although no hypothesis has been definitively proven, the available data indicate...

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Journal of Experimental Medicine @jem.org · 27/03/2025

Type I interferon autoantibody footprints reveal neutralizing mechanisms and allow inhibitory decoy design. New study from Kevin Groen, Benjamin Hale (@benhale.bsky.social) and colleagues @virology.uzh.ch: rupress.org/jem/article/... #Autoimmunity #Immunodeficiency #InfectiousDisease

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Christian Drosten @cdrosten.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

www.dmz-news.eu/2025/03/16/e... Sehr treffende Zusammenfassung. Wer immer noch denkt, es ginge hier um einen unterhaltsamen „Virologen-Zoff“, hat einiges nicht mitgeschnitten. www.zeit.de/gesundheit/2... www.n-tv.de/mediathek/vi... www.youtube.com/watch?v=av2H... www.ullstein.de/werke/alles-...

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GfV - Gesellschaft für Virologie @gesvirologie.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

„Gain of Function“ (GoF)-Forschung aktuell in aller Munde. Unser Vorstand und die „Kommission für sicherheitsrelevante Forschung in der Virologie“ haben hierzu eine Übersicht erstellt. g-f-v.org/wp-content/u...

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GfV - Gesellschaft für Virologie @gesvirologie.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Prof. Thomas Mettenleiter received the prestigious Loeffler-Frosch-Medaille from the Gesellschaft für Virologie. Kudos! (BS) www.fli.de/de/aktuelles...

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Gesellschaft für Virologie zeichnet Prof. Thomas Mettenleiter mit Loeffler-Frosch-Medaille aus

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Jason Gale @jasongale.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

A GSK spokesperson confirmed that David Wentworth, who served as director of the CDC's coronavirus & other respiratory viruses division, has been appointed to a snr role in its vaccines R&D unit. His appointment was finalized in late 2024, before President Trump signaled impending federal job cuts.

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Nicola Low @nicolamlow.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

At Kursaal Bern on #Dreikoenigstag Showcasing how #Philanthropy supports research and innovation @unibern.bsky.social Multidisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases and @BEreadycohort (Stiftung Vinetum) Wyss Center for Research on Nature Diabetes Center Bern (Willy Michel)

Carmen Faso and Volker Thiel from Multidisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases (MCID) University of Bern

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Stuart Neil @tetherin.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

@angierasmussen.bsky.social presented data at the Awaji CoV meeting performing further analysis of the environmental metagenomic sequence data from the huanan seafood market taken in January 2020. 1/n www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Sick animals suggest COVID pandemic started in Wuhan market

A preliminary analysis takes a closer look at genomic data collected at the market.

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Sandra Ciesek @ciesek.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Die Deadline zu unserer Jahrestagung 2025 naht: bis 01.12.24 ist es noch möglich, ein Abstract einzureichen. virology-meeting.de/registration...

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TubaBarut @tubabarut.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

One of the recent works that we have published this year 🧪 @profvolkerthiel.bsky.social

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