Varusha Veerapen

Empathy and kindness are becoming rather rare traits these days. There is nothing more important than treating each other like the finite mortal short-lived nociceptive beings we are. A life lived in apathy feels so much shorter and far too cold. Try to love more while you live.

Our Virtual Virology event is coming up fast! Don't miss the chance to meet the future rockstars in Canadian virology and learn about their work! #lovevirology #virologyFTW Register here: csv-scv.ca/en/virtual-vir…

A thread 🧵about bringing humanity to academia 1/6

Online Now: eIF3d controls the persistent integrated stress response dlvr.it/SvmKB9

I love it. Highly recommend.

In our #ECRViromics July lecture on 12 July 2023 (together with @OSUmicrobiome and @EMERGE_BII), Tom van der Most from @VanRijLab will speak about the #virome of Culex #mosquitoes. Register now: evbc.uni-jena.de/events/ecr-vir…

I am speaking at ASV 2023. Please check out my talk if you're attending the event! - via #Whova event app

Researchers who have experienced the death of a family member or friend while navigating the pressures of academia describe to @NatureCareers how colleagues could do better by their peers who are in mourning. go.nature.com/3qOKgWP

This is beautiful. Making one protein, from one mRNA, takes minutes. This method images single mRNAs as they are translated by ribosomes. And can do it for >1 hour. Translation is start-stop; not continuous. (mRNAs = red; translation sites = green). cell.com/molecular-cell…

Purdue biologists led by Stan Gelvin have developed Agrobacterium strains that deliver T-DNA so plants can still be modified to express valued traits, but they are not transgenic. This means traditional methods to remove T-DNA aren’t needed. purdue.edu/newsroom/relea…

CRISPR is amazing

Seventy years on from the discovery of the structure of DNA, controversy still surrounds two central points: how much credit Rosalind Franklin deserved, and the degree to which she was denied it #Echobox=1682439032-1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nature.com/articles/d4158…

Do you love transient protein expression via agroinfitration of N. benthamiana but are tired of having bad expression in older plants? Super smart colleagues of the #PlantChemetics lab found a solution! read all about it in the latest #preprint of the lab!

Sensing of viral RNA in plants via a DICER-LIKE Ribonuclease biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_plants

BioNumPy: Fast and easy analysis of biological data with Python biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_bioinfo

Vincent travels to Cornell University to speak with Gary Whittaker about regulation by proteolytic processing of the fusion activity of the spike protein of #SARSCoV2 and feline coronavirus transmission, replication and disease bit.ly/3Fwxhwm

I added three more protocols to my book on data visualization in R/ggplot2 for wet lab scientists. Protocol 13 explains how to plot multiple plots side-by-side. Find all protocols here: joachimgoedhart.github.io/DataViz-protoc…

Just seen this on Facebook. Man, it’s so true.

Drag-and-drop genome insertion of large sequences without double-strand DNA cleavage using CRISPR-directed integrases bit.ly/3GEisKB

In light of a push by a small group of non-virologists to ban all virus research (IT'S DANGEROUS!!!), I've decided to pick a new viral system: Poly I:C