🦠BortzVirologyGroup🇺🇸
@BortzGroup
Virus genomics lab University of Alaska 🏔🇺🇸 PI: Eric Bortz, PhD; WWAMI U. Washington; #OneHealth 🇺🇦 #СлаваУкраїні 🦋bortz-virology
UAA and UAF Biology and collaborators in Ukraine: sequencing the genome of virulent African swine fever virus (ASFV) by MinION #ASV2019 @UAABioSciences @uaanchorage @devindrown @ArcticBiology @uafairbanks @BortzGroup
Introducing La-Proteina, a generative AI model that creates complete atomistic protein structures together with their amino acid sequences, scalable upto 800 residues. Built by @NVIDIA Research, in collaboration with @UniofOxford and @Mila_Quebec La-Proteina addresses a key…
🦠🧬 Fantastic study! Deep mining of Klebsiella genomes for integrated bacteriophages #LoveVirology #Phages
What determines who a phage can infect? We tackled this question for temperate phages of Klebsiella — a bacterial pathogen — using a genome-wide association study (GWAS) and a massive protein testing effort. 👇 A thread!
First #ASMicrobe! Great place to learn and share pathogen genomics methods, all these years ..
Ever had to pause genomic surveillance due to enzyme shortages?🫣 Happy to share our new preprint with the solution inside 🦹♀️💪 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… @igoodfel @Scalene Chris Kent @myra_hosmillo @KessRowe @pathogenomenick Andrew Rambaut @NetworkArtic @wellcometrust @nanopore
#USArmy fighting kings, fascists and dictators since 1775 #Army250th
Fascinating 🖖 influenza co-infection may exacerbate tuberculosis #TB by limiting antimycobacterial host response.
Preprint: Influenza coinfection inhibits control of mycobacterial infection in a human challenge model researchsquare.com/article/rs-664…
Nice way of putting it. Reducing scale and standardizing data generation design and output is the key. the most interesting biological data, especially produced in academia is right now a flat file in a paper behind a pay wall. We can disrupt this! #biotechnology
We need experimental abundance in bioengineering. So much of biological science is trying to squeeze as much learning as possible out of a very small amount of raw experimental data -- because making that data is insanely expensive. We're hitting the limits of that approach --…
Fascinating 🖖 Did you also see upregulation of class I tumor antigens?
🧵1/ We @tahoe_ai just published a new post on the Tahoe blog—a story of how we used Tahoe-100M, the world’s largest drug-perturbed single-cell dataset, to find compounds that upregulate MHC-I and make tumors more visible to the immune system. Here’s how 🧬🔍👇
At @tatta_bio, we have been thinking deeply about the sequence-to-function problem. We believe that before AI can power functional prediction, we first need to rethink how we curate, manage, and share sequence data. Here, we share our initial ideas on what we are building next:…
Revoking J1 visas is not only cruel, it undermines trust in American science. As we wrote with Jan Vilcek, an immigrant whose work led to one of medicine’s biggest breakthroughs, J1 students fuel discovery, innovation & US economic growth. cell.com/cell/fulltext/…
So it begins again… Another sleepless night in Kyiv thanks to those in the West that still do not grasp what #RussiaIsaTerroristState is all about and who #PutinIsaWarCriminal is in spite of the obvious for both.
🦟 Aedes aegypti, carrier of Zika, dengue, yellow fever and chikungunya viruses. Orange 🍊 County CA, 14 May 2025. #FeveredPlanet
Excited to bring my real-world experience in pathogen biotechnology and biosecurity to this workshop this ! DM if interested ! linkedin.com/posts/epidemic…
I don’t think @SteveWitkoff is the right guy for the job. You need someone who will drive knife-eyes right through Putin!
🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 A day after Trump's man pledged allegiance to Russia, Putin struck Ukrainian cities, targeting civilians: At least 31 people were killed, including two children. 84 were injured, including 10 children.
Palm Sunday and Passover, shalom 🕊️🇺🇦 Psalm 118: All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the Lord will I destroy them. @SecDef @SecRubio @SteveWitkoff @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @TuckerCarlson @elonmusk
Today, Palm Sunday, Russia launched ballistic missiles on Sumy - killing 32 Ukrainian civilians & injuring 99. Reports indicate, as in Kryvyi Rih, cluster munitions were used, increasing the devastation and harm to civilians. Our prayers are with the people of Sumy.