Sofia Moraes

Postdoctoral Fellow / Former HHMI Gilliam Fellow / Molecular biology, microbiology & protein evolution/ Not Sophia 🇧🇷 🏳️‍🌈

[Sofia Moraes @sofianmoraes]

Best first tweet ever!!! I'm beyond honored to join the @HHMINEWS #GilliamFellows community. From Brazil to the Midwest - it's been a journey! 🥶
I'm so excited to learn from this amazing group of people and work together to continue pushing science forward! So proud of us!💚

[Rock Lab 🧬🧫 @RockLabTB]

Ever wonder why drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis is less fit than drug-susceptible Mtb? And how the bacterium can evolve to compensate for that cost?

[Sofia Moraes @sofianmoraes]

@ScienceYael Sucess is in the sum of smalll efforts 💪 💪repieted 🫡 repeated æy iny-day 😩😤 -- even on Saturdays 💯💯💯

[Sofia Moraes @sofianmoraes]

@HarshitaBGupta1 @JMolBiol @HarrisLabUTHSA thanks! 😊

[Sofia Moraes @sofianmoraes]

The last paper from my phd is now published in @JMolBiol! Working together with Arad Moghadasi, we developed a live cell assay for quantifying viral and cellular deubiquitinase activity https://t.co/Q3qmJNYnoI

[Sofia Moraes @sofianmoraes]

@LucasFerreri1 @JMolBiol thank you!!

[Joshua Hall @jdhallphd]

What a time we had. First in-person gathering for most of them, and me. I love my job @ HHMI, but miss regular facetime with students. The #GilliamFellows meeting filled my tank and will keep me going for quite a while! 💙💚💚💛 (⬅️ these hearts are sort of hhmi colors)

[Sofia Moraes @sofianmoraes]

@yeseniatweets @ZeenaRivera @ScienceYael ✨networking is my passion✨

[Sofia Moraes @sofianmoraes]

@ScienceYael @ZeenaRivera real cherry blossoms of D.C.

[Ya'el Courtney, PhD @ScienceYael]

2 days, 32 talks heard, 1 digital (!) poster presented, many friends made. So happy to attend my first @HHMINEWS science meeting, finally meet some of the other Gilliam fellows in person, and be in the company of so many inspirational scientists ✨

[Sofia Moraes @sofianmoraes]

@thiagoarzua esse tweet literalmente a primeira coisa que veio na minha cabeça 😭 she gets it

[Sofia Moraes @sofianmoraes]

@ShanleyRoach oddly satisfying but please tell me this was a team effort 😭

[Sofia Moraes @sofianmoraes]

@Dr_Simon_Baker @eLife Thank you!

[Sofia Moraes @sofianmoraes]

My 1st first-author manuscript is out in @eLife! This project started back in 2019 with the question “what makes a viral protein evolve a new function?” A thread:
https://t.co/cEIuucXl5l

[Sofia Moraes @sofianmoraes]

@WeitzmanLab @PricelessSci @eLife Thank you!

[Sofia Moraes @sofianmoraes]

@FaltasLab @HarrisLabUTHSA @JordanBeckerPhD @Ashley_Auerbach @AdamZCheng Thank you!

[Sofia Moraes @sofianmoraes]

@b_stefanovska @HarrisLabUTHSA Thank you!! 🫶

[Sofia Moraes @sofianmoraes]

Huge thanks to the @HarrisLabUTHSA team, @JordanBeckerPhD, Arad, Nadine, @Ashley_Auerbach, and @AdamZCheng for all the help throughout the last couple years, so happy to finish 2022 seeing this all come together 💚

[Sofia Moraes @sofianmoraes]

Our results combine to suggest that the birth of A3B at a critical branchpoint in primate evolution may have been a driving force in selecting for an ancestral herpesvirus with an expanded RNR functionality through counteraction of this antiviral enzyme