Priya Shah
@shah_ps
Associate professor & sartorial innovator @UCDavis Lover of virus-host interactions, systems biology, & dogs. @whatthefugacity (threads, TikTok, & BlueSky).
I am honored to announce that I have been named the Joe and Essie Smith Endowed Chair of Chemical Engineering at UC Davis Chemical Engineering and @UCDavisCOE . This honor marks a new point in @PShahLab (and my sartorial innovation!) 1/n


Me getting ready for 2nd grade soccer tomorrow:
Can I Kick It? • A Tribe Called Quest [1990]
Uche from our group is speaking at science cafe tonight @NHMU. Should be a fun night. nhmu.utah.edu/events/october…
Mama, we made it! My TED Talk is OUT! Thrilled/terrified to share my talk where I dive into why understanding the who behind the disease is key to more equitable healthcare 😭😍 ted.com/talks/erika_mo… #MooreToCome @TEDFellow @UMDBIOE @ClarkSchool
Check out the work of my amazing colleagues at @UCDavisCOE. Chemical engineers are pretty awesome!
This morning, we were featured on the @TODAYshow! ☕ Tune in to go inside the @ucdavis Coffee Center in the College of Engineering, the first multidisciplinary research facility in the U.S. dedicated to coffee science and education: on.today.com/3U7QAo1 #UCDavis
We’ve got a teenager in the house! Happy 13 years to this amazingly good boi. 15/10 if I say so myself. @dog_rates

Are you interested in arbovirus-host interactions? My lab @CornellPathogen is searching for a Postdoctoral Associate to study mechanisms of infection and transmission focusing on alphaviruses and flaviviruses . Apply now! 🧪🔬🦟 academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28553
This is the beginning of the end of our long list of manuscripts in preparation! Single-cell virology: On-chip, quantitative characterization of the dynamics of virus spread from one single cell to another biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Hey NRSA recipients, this is the heroine who your awards are named after 👇💕
I promise you they are all cheering for me because I was riding no handed. #firstdayvibes @ucdavis
In academia we don’t say “I love you.” We send calendar invites and I think that’s beautiful.
You may not like it, but this is what peak immunity looks like. Novavax was great, highly recommend for those who dreaded RNA side effects.

Looking for a part time lab manager job in beautiful Innsbruck, Austria? Here ist the first of several job ads for positions at the Institute of Virology @MedUniInnsbruck. M.Sc. required. g-f-v.org/job/laboratory…
I don't know why, but I really need to know what the menswear guy thinks of my suit.
Imagine if you woke up this morning and found that the NIH-funded database that holds all of the data that you and thousands of other scientists around the world consult every day was turned off. Gone. Despite many efforts by a community of scientists to lobby @NIH @NIHDirector…
A hard question and a very fun project with Eddie Holmes and @florian_krammer. #LoveVirology. Lots of great stuff in here…what did we miss? Virology—The next fifty years: Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…