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@aaronembry01.bsky.social / Post Doc, @Mehlelab UW-Madison / Arboviruses & Conserved Innate Immunity 🦟🪰🪲

Joined January 2021
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The third-fastest hat trick in @DallasStars franchise history! 🌟
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Please spread the word on hiring in our department. We are searching broadly but particularly interested in Systems and Synthetic Biology. I am chairing this faculty search, please feel free to reach out if you have any questions.
UW–Madison Biochem (@UWBiochem) profile pictureUW–Madison Biochem@UWBiochemOct 8
Deadline Oct. 15: We are hiring for a professor at any level to join our creative and dynamic community. Candidates in all areas of #biochemistry will be considered, and we are particularly interested in candidates in systems and synthetic biology. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assistant…
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University of Wisconsin–Madison Professor Francis Halzen named 2026 Nobel laureate in physics! How exciting! news.wisc.edu/university-of-…
University of Wisconsin–Madison Professor Francis Halzen named 2026 Nobel laureate in physics

University of Wisconsin–Madison Professor Francis Halzen named 2026 Nobel laureate in physics

Halzen is the principal investigator of the NSF IceCube Neutrino Observatory, the world’s largest telescope.

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Visiting San Francisco and my friends at Stanford this weekend - what exciting news! Congratulations are of course in order!
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The most important briefings of the day. Karl Deisseroth, professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, shares the news of his Nobel Prize with his kids.
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It was an honor to help Courtney and Kevin with this story! 😀 Watching Courtney's updates/seminars sprouted an idea - she took human ISGs to bacteria & identified TONDO's... So, could we "UNO Reverse" ↩️ that logic and use bacterial TONDO's in mammals? Turns out, yes!
Kevin Forsberg (@kvnforsberg) profile pictureKevin Forsberg@kvnforsbergJul 2
Humans and bacteria share strategies to defend against viruses. We wondered: could they use each other's genes? Yes, both can! Bacteria can use human immune genes to defend against phages AND Human cells can use bacterial genes for viral defense. biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
Bacterial and human exonucleases mediate interkingdom antiviral immunity

Bacterial and human exonucleases mediate interkingdom antiviral immunity

All kingdoms of life have developed strategies to limit viral infection[1][1],[2][2]. In humans, interferons induce a suite of antiviral factors that collectively provide immunity[3][3]. Some human...

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Loved this - perfect for the season! youtu.be/3qiI1P1rP6E?is=j1QS…
Tick Season (Parody of "Stick Season")

Tick Season (Parody of "Stick Season")

I hate them so much. Parody of Stick Season by Noah Kahan, rework...

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Congratulations Emily! The Nominata is UTSW's highest student award for academic excellence! A well deserved win for an incredible @GammonLab lab mate, incredible collaborator, and close friend! Woo!! 🧬🎉
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Dynamic immune cell profiling in the gut over the course of a day! A beautiful collection of data sets, congratulations to @ImmYouKnowledgy and friends on a beautiful BioRx submission!
Robert Maples (@ImmYouKnowledgy) profile pictureRobert Maples@ImmYouKnowledgyJan 27
I'm so happy to see this out on bioRxiv! I took a detour to collaborate with some wonderful people to make this dataset a reality. Our goal was to conduct an unbiased analysis of immune system changes in the small intestine over the course of the day. Enjoy!
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🎉 Thrilled to see our #MosquitoCellAtlas featured on the cover of @CellCellPress! This mosaic represents 367,000+ cells across 19 tissues, unveiling the complex biology that makes mosquitoes the world's deadliest animals. Art meets science! 🦟🎨
Cell (@CellCellPress) profile pictureCell@CellCellPress11 Dec 2025
New issue alert! 👉 cell.com/cell/current On the cover: The mosquito mosaic represents the tissues of the atlas presented by Goldman et al. The atlas reveals the complex diversity underlying the mosquito’s remarkable ability to locate human hosts and transmit deadly pathogens
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Happy Halloween!! 🎃👻 Hope everyone's family had plenty of candy and fun tonight! 🕷️🕸️ Science to continue on Monday, enjoy the holi-daze ☺️
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Checking my cells and infections late tonight for a collaboration - who might I see @ almost 11pm, still hard at work in the lab, @CT_Wu_Lab! One of my favorites, polishing up some last minute data for his talk at our PMID (Microbes, Immunity, & Disease) symposium. What a legend!
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$1,005.00 and ~5 miles later - the @GammonLab crew crushed it at the Making Stride Against Breast Cancer ACS event this weekend!
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Very proud to have our lab's first work published in @cellhostmicrobe! In this work, we use functional metagenomics to find phage defenses from human and soil microbiomes! Congrats to first author @luis840alberto ! cell.com/cell-host-microbe/f… (1/3)
Metagenomic selections reveal diverse antiphage defenses in human and environmental microbiomes

Metagenomic selections reveal diverse antiphage defenses in human and environmental microbiomes

Rodríguez-Rodríguez et al. use functional metagenomics to identify hundreds of sequences from diverse environmental bacteria that block phage infection when expressed in E. coli. Their discoveries...

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Kevin Forsberg (@kvnforsberg) profile pictureKevin Forsberg@kvnforsberg3 Mar 2025
My lab’s first preprint! We used functional metagenomics to identify phage defenses in human and soil microbiomes. We scaled these selections while maintaining accuracy, enabling us to examine 9 habitats for defense elements against 7 phages. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 1/10
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Our (@GammonLab) manuscript on virus-host interactions & RNF214 is now out in @PLOSPathogens! Perhaps one of the coolest things we found was that RNF214 knockout increased viral infections, without altering IFN-Beta signalling or select ISG expression! journals.plos.org/plospathog…
Bacterial effector screening reveals RNF214 as a virus restriction factor in mammals

Bacterial effector screening reveals RNF214 as a virus restriction factor in mammals

Author Summary Arboviruses are transmitted by biting insects to animal and human hosts and cause diseases ranging from mild febrile illnesses to fatal encephalitis. Here, we use bacterial effector...

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Congratulations @BrittMStew and the @OrchardLab_Rob crew! 😁 A nice story on lipids and norovirus infection! biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor…
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Research led by @dorsolab at #UTSW finds mechanisms to repress activation of genes that promote #cancer development and progression upon p53 loss. @MolecularCell bit.ly/410zKMj #sciencetwitter
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Our preprint exploring bacterial effectors & mammalian immunity is out! I often heard during our last project "Why study moths? Do it in mammals!"... So we did, two even! Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to this story, wouldn't be here without y'all biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor…
Gammon Lab (@GammonLab) profile pictureGammon Lab@GammonLab7 Nov 2024
New preprint from Gammon Lab @UTSWMedCenter where bacterial effectors reveal a role for mammalian RNF214 proteins in antiviral immunity in bats and humans! Great collab with the Alto Lab! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Bacterial Effector Screening Reveals RNF214 as a Virus Restriction Factor in Mammals

Bacterial Effector Screening Reveals RNF214 as a Virus Restriction Factor in Mammals

Arboviruses are a group of arthropod-transmitted viruses that pose a significant threat to public health. Identifying host factors that inhibit arbovirus infection is critical for the development of...

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Finally, after the establishment of a #sandfly colony in Montpellier, France @ird_fr @MIVEGEC @GenesysMIVEGEC and 3 years of intense research, I'm very pleased to share with you my main PhD research article on #Toscanavirus infection dynamics 🥳 dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.…
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Mosquito-borne diseases are surging in Europe — how worried are scientists? nature.com/articles/d41586-0…. @ASTMH @ACAV_ASTMH @AmerSocVirol @sbviro @Virology_FAMERP
Mosquito-borne diseases are surging in Europe — how worried are scientists?

Mosquito-borne diseases are surging in Europe — how worried are scientists?

Nature - Diseases such as West Nile virus and dengue are becoming increasingly common as the insects that spread them move north.

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I am excited and looking forward to meeting with the faculty and student at @UPRHComunica @KAlicea_PhD
Kevin Alicea-Torres (@KAlicea_PhD) profile pictureKevin Alicea-Torres@KAlicea_PhD23 Sep 2024
Looking forward to hosting @UCF, @JohnsHopkinsSPH, @UCFMcNair, and @UTSWMedCenter for a #GradSchool information session this Thursday at @UPRHComunica! Details below ⬇️ @UPR_Oficial
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