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Stefan Pöhlmann @snpoehlm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

🧪An exciting new preprint offers insights into how SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses can acquire cleavage motifs for the cellular protease furin. A thread on the importance of the furin motif in the SARS-CoV-2 spike and its possible origins.🧵

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Shigeru Fuiita @shigeru0701.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Happy to share our new paper! 🦇 While ACE2 gene has been extensively studied in Asian horseshoe bats, data on European and African species remain limited. Here, we report ACE2 orthologs from two African ones and examine the entry of several sarbecoviruses! 🔗 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

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Novel African Rhinolophus bat ACE2 sequences reveal the determinants of Afro-Eurasian sarbecovirus entry | Journal of Virology

As putative natural reservoirs of sarbecoviruses, including SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2, Rhinolophus bats play a critical role in the emergence of zoonotic coronaviruses, making it essential to understand...

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Shigeru Fuiita @shigeru0701.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This was an interesting read for me, especially studying the history of HIV at new institute!🦠

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Antigen Evolution & Design Lab @antigenevo.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Inaugural post! We are a brand new lab @pasteur.fr studying how pathogen antigens evolve and how we can exploit these proteins' evolution to make better vaccines! Read a few words from the currently sole member of the lab @spyroslytras.bsky.social below! 😁 www.pasteur.fr/en/research-...

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Predicting viral evolution with AI

Spyros Lytras is one of four young scientists selected in 2025 to lead new research groups at the Institut Pasteur. He has headed the “Antigen Evolution & Design laboratory” 5-year Group (G5) since Ju...

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Daniel Sauter @sauterlab.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Open #PhDposition in our group! Interested in #virology, #immunology, and #placenta biology? Apply to join our team! The project is part of the #aging research consortium CRC 1506. More info: tinyurl.com/zw3y2mhv and www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/we....

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Research Group “Mechanisms of innate antiviral immunity” | Universitätsklinikum Tübingen

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Shigeru Fuiita @shigeru0701.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Excellent exhibition about HIV/AIDS in Stadtmuseum Tübingen📖 We can learn the history of AIDS and listen to the interviews with people living with HIV. www.stadtmuseum-tuebingen.de/ausstellunge...

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Mahan Ghafari @mghafari.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Had an absolutely wonderful few days at #JSV72 in Hamamatsu & IMSUT in Tokyo. Huge thanks to @shusukekawakubo.bsky.social, @shigeru0701.bsky.social, @spyroslytras.bsky.social & everyone in the @systemsvirology.bsky.social lab for being such brilliant hosts. Japan has been an amazing experience 🇯🇵✨

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Mario Peña-Hernández @marioph13.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Beyond grateful and excited to be invited to speak in one of the JSV meeting symposiums in Japan later this month! Thank you to @shigeru0701.bsky.social and other meeting organizers. 😁🙏

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

My replies are perpetually full of anti-vaxxers these days telling me about polio vaccines. Not shockingly, most of what they are saying is wrong. Luckily, I trained with Vincent Racaniello & he taught me a few things about poliovirus. So let’s discuss the king of the Picornaviridae👇🏻

Picture of a plaque assay (purple field with clear holes) showing gorgeous poliovirus plaques

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Cheri Sirois @cherisirois.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Cell is on Bluesky now! 😀

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Shigeru Fuiita @shigeru0701.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Even after spending a long time together, saying goodbye for the last day is always sad. See you soon, definitely!! (And with such a lovely photo, which I received today😊)

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Shigeru Fuiita @shigeru0701.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Wonderful meeting was over. The coronavirologists got together, and I heard many fascinating talks. #CSHApandemic I'm glad I can ask questions and talk directly to authors who developed amazing virus research that I was impressed by when I read their papers in the past. Please visit Japan again🇯🇵

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Shigeru Fuiita @shigeru0701.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Our reunion in Kobe and random talks about viruses were super nice!!

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Spyros Lytras @spyroslytras.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

For the December Wakate journal club @jarelelgin.bsky.social and I are very excited to be chairing not one but two talks by @jonathonmifsud.bsky.social and Elias Augestad on their cutting-edge viral glycoprotein work! Make sure to sign up here: t.co/QZTKghnspN

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SalehLab @salehlabparis.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Hello! I will be presenting today at #MBSJ2024, in Fukuoka, at the symposium organized by -former Saleh lab member- Professor Yasu Suzuki and Prof Yasuko Orba. I will be discussing the work of @cassandrakoh.bsky.social on mosquito viromes. Come if you are around!

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