Kyra Defourny

Post doc | Extracellular Vesicles | Virus-Host Interactions |

[Kyra Defourny @DefournyKyra]

First days at the Inflammation Research Center of the VIB/UGent, thanks to the #Rubicon grant of @ZonMw!
Starting on a new chapter of EV-virus research in the @Vdb_lab

[Regev Rudzki WIS @RegevW]

What a stimulating meeting on #exRNA! Bravo! 👏

[Kyra Defourny @DefournyKyra]

Scientists should always strive to talk to as diverse an audience as possible, and that's what made the meeting of COST-action network @exrnapath so great. People working on plants, fungi, mammals, & more, coming together for their shared love of exRNA. Recognize yourself? Join!

[Esther Nolte-'t Hoen @EstherNolteHoen]

Very proud of @DefournyKyra , postdoc in our team, who gave a great presentation at the @exrnapath conference on host-pathogen RNA communication. We can learn about #exRNA communication by studying packaging of #picornavirus in #extracellularvesicles

[Kyra Defourny @DefournyKyra]

As a former PhD student of Esther working on the field of #EV-virus interactions, I cannot stress enough what a great opportunity this is. Best of luck to all the applicants 😉

[Esther Nolte-'t Hoen @EstherNolteHoen]

Are you interested in #ExtracellularVesicles and antiviral immune responses? We are recruiting a #PhD candidate to participate in our enthusiastic team of EV researchers! PM me or check the ad on LinkedIn.

[Kyra Defourny @DefournyKyra]

Very honoured to win one of this years oral presentation awards! Great to see that the #NLSEV is a community so open to sharing novel unpublished data and ideas. Let's keep it up and spread the love for research at the interface between EVs and #virology😍.

[NLSEV @NLSEV_]

We had to wait till the first photos were in, but now we can show and congratulate (again) the #NLSEV2022 award winners: @simon4189 and @JMMKocken won the prizes for best poster, and @DefournyKyra and Omnia Elsharkasy for best oral presentation!

[Kyra Defourny @DefournyKyra]

Great to see our paper on how a nonstructural viral protein can enable the release of extracellular vesicle-enclosed EMCV published!
Many thanks to all our co-authors👏

Stay tuned for more work coming on different viral & host factors that can affect EV-enclosed virus release

[Utrecht Virology Lab @UtrechtVirology]

Our latest work describing how viral and host factors can enable release of extracellular vesicle-enclosed EMCV is now published @NatureComms! This was a great collaboration with the group of @EstherNolteHoen.

You can check out the paper here 👇

https://t.co/pY2rNWmRYr

[Kyra Defourny @DefournyKyra]

10/ In the future we therefore expect to hear a lot more about this new type of infectious particles 😉

[Kyra Defourny @DefournyKyra]

After presenting sneak previews at several conferences, we are happy that our latest manuscript can now be found online and in full as prepint!

Rather have a quick overview? Check out the thread below ⬇️

[Esther Nolte-'t Hoen @EstherNolteHoen]

Our latest work on viral and host factors enabling release of #picornavirus in #extracellularvesicles on @biorxivpreprint. Stellar work by @defournykyra and Susanne vd Grein, with Frank v.Kuppeveld, @the_milk_EV_guy @AltelaarM @CCI_FVM @VET_UniUtrecht 👉https://t.co/zA3lLOUySZ

[Kyra Defourny @DefournyKyra]

9/ This is important because a virus enclosed within an EV can have very different properties than its naked counterpart! This extra layer of host-derived membrane can affect cellular uptake, biodistribution, infection efficiency, and escape from the immune system. 🌡️🩸

[Kyra Defourny @DefournyKyra]

Great and exciting talks on day 1 of #ISEVID! Tomorrow it is my turn to kick off the meeting, presenting about the release of #EVenclosedPicornaviruses. Nervous and excited because the bar is set high, as it should be.