Carolina B. Lopez

Professor | Our lab studies how viruses interact with their host. We spend a lot of time thinking about non-standard viral genomes. Posts are my own.

[Carolina B. Lopez @CBLopezLab]

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

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ALLEA Statement on Threats to Academic Freedom and International Research Collaboration in the United States - ALLEA https://t.co/K6mBvWmjfv

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America’s loss, China’s gain: top Chinese universities welcome PhD refugees from the US | South China Morning Post https://t.co/qta36e5LmO

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Why Cutting Basic Science Funding May Amount to Economic Unilateral Disarmament | American Enterprise Institute - AEI https://t.co/5iIBoCkRqY

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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!

[nature @Nature]

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.

https://t.co/ly8mKijdtQ

[nature @Nature]

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.

https://t.co/ly8mKijdtQ

[WBC24 @WBC24News]

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

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First paper of 2025! Postdoc Yanling Yang shows that SLC35A2 modulates paramyxovirus fusion events during infection | PLOS Pathogens https://t.co/hFQj9UPmu2

[Carolina B. Lopez @CBLopezLab]

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! https://t.co/I6t8mZ6nfS

[CMM JHU @CMM_JHU]

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.

[Carolina B. Lopez @CBLopezLab]

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 [email protected]

[Carolina B. Lopez @CBLopezLab]

@Englandsk785 @avidan_michael @MillerLabNeuro @WashU_OBGYN Congrats Sarah!

[Carolina B. Lopez @CBLopezLab]

New paramyxoviruses! Paper by @geneman930 with a tiny contribution from our lab...let me introduce you to Samak virus! https://t.co/ZYeBgdmm0x

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And read @italoacastro’s blog telling the story behind this paper: https://t.co/s8Iet6FAj7

[Carolina B. Lopez @CBLopezLab]

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:
https://t.co/F5QYUqd8g9
Apply by emailing [email protected]

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@Lo_Zanzi @NatureMicrobiol @italoacastro Thank you Ivan!

[WashU Medicine @washumedicine]

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. https://t.co/PT3BnzbWJU

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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
https://t.co/7Yva2UBzRa

[Carolina B. Lopez @CBLopezLab]

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

[Siyuan Ding @sding88]

We are HIRING! Our department is looking for MORE THAN ONE Tenure Track Assistant Professors! Come be my colleagues! See detail below. Please consider applying and sharing widely! @WUSM_MolMicro @washumedicine

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

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Thanks for putting this together! Happy to be included in this (long) list of Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx Scientists | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center https://t.co/BSxFdstoP3