Our lab at UT Southwestern studies viral pathogenesis. And sometimes wine.
Faculty search announcement 2026: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Microbiology at UT Southwestern in Dallas. We seek candidates working in microbial pathogenesis (broadly defined). Come join our community! (1/5) www.utsouthwestern.edu/departments/...
Congrats to Dr. Robert Maples (@robertmaples.bsky.social) on a successful PhD thesis defense! You can read about his thesis work here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6..., www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Anna Whitfield, Terry Dermody & I (but let's be honest, mostly Anna) wrote about how plant viruses threaten coffee, chocolate, wine & more. Read about coffee ringspot, cacao swollen shoot, & grapevine leafroll/red blotch. Longer piece coming in Annual Review of Virology. thehill.com/opinion/ener...
Plant viruses could threaten your coffee, chocolate and wineWhat looks like a danger to the things we enjoy signals deeper vulnerabilities in the food system we depend on.thehill.comNew preprint from our collaboration with John Brooks’ lab: Viral loads can vary by more than 100-fold depending on the time of day mice are infected. And we figured out why. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.orgNew preprint/Hooper collab: Ever know a student so passionate about a topic that they dragged you in kicking & screaming but then you were fascinated? Here's how @robertmaples.bsky.social & Gabby Quinn got me to like cellular immunology. (Like, not love. I’m human.) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.orgFaculty search announcement 2025: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Microbiology at UT Southwestern. We seek candidates working in microbial pathogenesis (some preference may be given to bacterial pathogens). Come join our community! (1/5) www.utsouthwestern.edu/departments/...
Exciting news: Carla Saleh is now Chair of Virology at Pasteur! Congrats to Carla and all who will benefit from her exceptional leadership!
SalehLabThrilled (and humbled!) to share that since today I am the Chair of the Virology Department at @pasteur.fr. Grateful to my colleagues for their trust. Now let’s push the frontiers of virus research together. The sky is the limit! 🦠🔬 #Virology #Science #TeamPasteur
Valerie Rodriguez Irizarry’s tour de force paper on murine norovirus adaptation/egress is now out in peer-reviewed form @plosbiology.org. It highlights the power of forward genetics in virology research. 🧵 1/10 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Terry Dermody and I wrote an op-ed about chronic diseases ("Make America Healthy Again"), the role of viral infections, and how virologists can help. www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...
Terrence S. Dermody and Julie K. Pfeiffer: To tackle chronic disease, turn to the virologistsDespite the United States being a global leader in many areas, Americans are not healthy. Life expectancy is lower than in other industrialized nations,...www.post-gazette.comNew preprint from Valerie Rodriguez-Irizarry in our group-- her tour de force thesis work used forward genetics to discover new insights into non-enveloped viral egress. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Wonderful to celebrate the legacy of Beth Levine yesterday. Dr. Noboru Mizushima, first winner of the Beth Levine M.D. Prize in Autophagy Research, gave a fantastic seminar including amazing drawings of his history with Beth. www.utsouthwestern.edu/research/bet....