Moriah Szpara (also at @szparalab.bsky.social)

ASV members at your service -- check out your @AmerSocVirol ballot! @SzparaLab @LiangDenglab @DrJDennehy @SalehLabParis @PaulTurnerLab Also but not online: Louis Mansky, Kai Wu, Shou-Wei Ding, Cristina Rosa, Welkin Pope, David Buchholz & Patrick Creisher

@CameronLabUNC 🥳 Happy New Year’s Eve!

Pro tip for PSU students looking for a spring general-education class: Viruses in our World (SC 130) starts anew in January! Check out Katie Herron's Daily Collegian article about the new class: psucollegian.com/culture_lifest…

@bryancmounce Congratulations, both!

He said yes! We are officially ENGAGED! 🧡

@CameronLabUNC We’re arriving in Palma tomorrow morning, on our way for a trek around the island. Maybe we’ll see you there or on your way home!

Great hiking, and great food. I love tomatoes!!!

@stgoldst @wanderer_jasnah Attendee & member feedback!

@SzparaLab @wanderer_jasnah Why the schedule change?

One last reminder -- tomorrow is the last day to submit an abstract for ASV's annual meeting! We have a new, shorter schedule of just 4 awesome days -- July 14-17, 2025, in Montréal 🇨🇦. The ASV Program Committee is eagerly awaiting your excellent abstracts! ✍️

Those individuals based at government agencies such as NIH, CDC, FDA who are planning to submit abstracts for ASV 2025 should contact the ASV office (asv@asv.org) if current restrictions impact their on-time abstract submission.

Heads up, virologists! ASV's annual meeting is going to Montréal 🇨🇦 in July 2025, and abstract submission closes in <3 weeks -- Monday Feb. 3rd!!! 🔬 🧬 The ASV Program Committee is eagerly awaiting your excellent abstracts! ✍️

@ViromeHunter @ubcLFS @UBC @ubcfarm Congratulations Paul! That’s awesome news! And how cool you & @AsherLeeks get to be colleagues! 🧬 🦠 🌿

My research has found its home and it's in the beautiful Vancouver! 🇨🇦🍁 I am thrilled to be joining the vibrant community at the Faculty of Land and Food Systems @UBCLFS at The University of British Columbia @UBC as a tenure-track Assistant Professor! 🍒🌾🍎🍌🍅🫐🦠🧫🔬👨🏼‍🔬👩🏾‍🔬🧬💻

My favourite discovery ever has just come online. Can I please tell you about some seriously wacky molecular biology? The story starts with a reverse transcriptase that SOMEHOW defends bacteria from viruses. (👇 I recommend sound ON for the video 🎹) 1/

One of the reasons I've been quiet on Twitter for a few months is because I've been working on something big - something I'm really happy to share now! Pathoplexus.org A new, open-source database for pathogen sequence sharing. 👐🧬🌎 1/12

Check out this & other @PSUScience classes about #viruses here: virology.psu.edu/virology-train…

They enjoyed dissecting the science & #scicomm of #viruses in popular movies like Contagion & Outbreak, and real-world films like "Virus", about a Nipah outbreak in India. #lovevirology

Excited to start classes next at #PennState, welcoming one & all to a new gen-ed (SC297G) where we look at #viruses in art, science, society, & more. Last year's class looked for viruses in music, & came up with gems like this one: youtu.be/4fM6OzUk850?fe…

Feel free to reach out or DM me with any questions!

Here is #4 of the new tenure-track faculty jobs @PSUScience and @PSUresearch. This one is in @BMB_PSU. Its theme is Genetics and Cellular & Developmental Biology. #Virology ties into all of these, so please apply! tinyurl.com/mwh5jjc4

Calling all #virology and #microbiology friends who are on the faculty job market: @PennStateBio department & @BMB_PSU have multiple faculty openings with ads up now! Link #1 of 4 here -- this one's theme is Evolutionary Genomics (open topic): tinyurl.com/5dj7s7bb