Carolina B. Lopez

My new motto... found in the streets of Philly...

ALLEA Statement on Threats to Academic Freedom and International Research Collaboration in the United States - ALLEA allea.org/portfolio-item…

America’s loss, China’s gain: top Chinese universities welcome PhD refugees from the US | South China Morning Post scmp.com/news/china/sci…

Why Cutting Basic Science Funding May Amount to Economic Unilateral Disarmament | American Enterprise Institute - AEI aei.org/economics/why-…

And w/o federal funding research in the US is largely compromised as a “pause” would requiere many labs to let go people with high level training and expertise. Recovering from such personnel losses takes lots of resources in training and time. Not a smart move!

About a month after Donald Trump took office as the 47th US president, almost all grant-review meetings remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget. go.nature.com/4k8Njjx

BREAKING: Wyoming woman hospitalized after testing positive for H5N1 bird flu, health department says

First paper of 2025! Postdoc Yanling Yang shows that SLC35A2 modulates paramyxovirus fusion events during infection | PLOS Pathogens journals.plos.org/plospathogens/…

New paper out! Here Vicky tested our DDO (DVG-derived Oligonucleotide) as a type 1 immunity-inducer adjuvant in mRNA vaccines using influenza NP as a model antigen...works great in mice by stimulating RLRs! journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10.11…

Mourning the loss of Dr. Diane Griffin, who passed away on Monday. Dr. Griffin was a founding member of @CMM_JHU and chaired our advisory board. A distinguished virologist, she was an elected member of Natl Acad Sci and Natl Acad Med. We remember her with gratitude.

Are you a guru in RNA or protein biology and looking to expand your horizons into virology? Email me your CV and cover letter to clopezzalaquett@wustl.edu

@Englandsk785 @avidan_michael @MillerLabNeuro @WashU_OBGYN Congrats Sarah!

What an honor to be inducted into the National Academy of Medicine this past weekend! Looking forward to serving with my amazing colleagues.⁦⁦@avidan_michael⁩ ⁦⁦@MillerLabNeuro⁩ @WashU_OBGYN⁩

New paramyxoviruses! Paper by @geneman930 with a tiny contribution from our lab...let me introduce you to Samak virus! virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

And read @italoacastro’s blog telling the story behind this paper: communities.springernature.com/posts/murine-p…

My friend and collaborator Shaon Sengupta (Penn/ CHOP in Philadelphia) is looking for postdocs. She does beautiful work on the impact of circadian rhythms in lung inflammation. Check out our collaborative work: nature.com/articles/s4146… Apply by emailing Senguptas@chop.edu

@Lo_Zanzi @NatureMicrobiol @italoacastro Thank you Ivan!

Fantastic @NatureMicrobiol by @CBLopezLab @italoacastro &co 👉“Overall, we identified persistent infection of innate immune cells as a key factor in the progression from acute to chronic lung disease after infection with parainfluenza virus🦠” 👇👉 nature.com/articles/s4156…

A WashU Medicine mouse study shows that respiratory viruses can hide in lung immune cells after infection, creating inflammation that leads to chronic lung diseases such as asthma. medicine.wustl.edu/news/viruses-f…

Paper out! Using the murine parainfluenza virus Sendai, @italoacastro beautifully demonstrates that viral RNA and protein found in innate immune cells long after the acute infection is resolved contribute to chronic lung pathology nature.com/articles/s4156…

Yes yes! Apply! Looking for all areas of microbiology, including virology!!

@DrSalinasLab Ohhhh congratulations!! We should have celebrated!!

Our next manuscript is now published science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… and we are delighted to share it with you. Congratulations to first author Amir Mani and all our co-authors who provided all the microbiome samples. This was a tour de force and we are super roud

Thanks for putting this together! Happy to be included in this (long) list of Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx Scientists | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center fredhutch.org/en/about/about…