

Mitch Ledwith
74 posts

@mitchnviruses
Uncomfortably caffeinated, grad student in the Mehle Lab at UW Madison




Does a postdoc have a responsibility to tell their current supervisor if they're going to publish a paper with another lab?

New work led by @BakerVirusMaker: What happens when host cells dual purpose critical genes with cryptic antiviral function? Viruses are forced to “choose” between two bad options – suffer the antagonism or attack the essential gene and limit resources to make progeny. 👇🧵1/7

@PUNusualSuspect makes our next step in understanding how phosphorylation directly controls the influenza virus polymerase. Spoiler alert - we find a phosphosite that specifically represses transcription while leaving replication intact. Great collaboration with Coon lab again.




Excited for our paper on influenza virus and IFIT2 now at @NatureMicrobiol : A mystery in 3 parts where things aren’t always what they seem. It has something for everyone, with CRISPR screens, CLIP-Seq, ribosome profiling, and ribosome pausing. 1/n nature.com/articles/s4156…







Phosphorylation controls RNA binding and transcription by the influenza virus polymerase biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv




Happy holidays from @TheLuftigLab to yours! #IAmAScientist
