Zach Frey 🧠🦠🧪

Research Technician | Hartman Lab | @PittCVR | Brains and Bunyaviruses | 🏳️‍🌈

[Rachael Rush @Rush_PhD]

One of the best days of the year, the @PittCVR holiday party! 🎄 featuring the CVR bar! 🍻

[Cynthia McMillen @GoingViral88]

We have a new pre-print on #Oropouche virus! Recent evidence suggests this emerging #bunyavirus may be associated with #verticaltransmission. Using ex vivo models of the placenta, we found villous trophoblasts are permissive to infection with the #prototype strain BeAn19991.

[Zach Frey 🧠🦠🧪 @Zach_Frey2]

Thank you to everyone involved including the Amarasinghe and Leung labs at WashU! Special thanks to @RogueRifter for taking a chance on a neuroscience undergrad with no virology background, @sciencekaleigh for teaching me everything I know, and @Rush_PhD for your mentorship!

[Zach Frey 🧠🦠🧪 @Zach_Frey2]

My first first-author pre-print is out now! This was such a fun project to work on, and I’m so grateful to have had the opportunity!

[Amy Hartman 👩‍🔬🏊🏻 @RogueRifter]

Last post on twitter. 🫡

New pre-print out on Jamestown Canyon virus!

First author of this study @Zach_Frey2 is applying for grad school this cycle. I highly recommend him!

Go to the blue place 🔵 to learn more about this and our continuing work!
https://t.co/MetzHCUoXZ

[Amy Hartman 👩‍🔬🏊🏻 @RogueRifter]

We have a new preprint on #Oropouche virus, the emerging #bunyavirus circulating in South America. In work with the #prototype BeAn19991 strain, we found primary neurons and microglia to be highly permissive to infection.
@PittPubHealth @PittTweet @PittCVR

[Zach Frey 🧠🦠🧪 @Zach_Frey2]

Interested in bunyaviruses, neuropathogenesis, vertical transmission, and/or viral entry? Come work with us! The Hartman lab is looking to hire a Research Technician and a Research Scientist. More info below!

[Amy Hartman 👩‍🔬🏊🏻 @RogueRifter]

🚨👇 2 opportunities are now available in my lab!
Sense of humor required!

@PittTweet @ThePittNews @PittPubHealth @IDM_PittPubHlth @PittCVR

Research Technician/Lab Manager:
https://t.co/qMc1E2RqWZ

Research Scientist/Project Manager:
https://t.co/SwHmwPRewn

[Zach Frey 🧠🦠🧪 @Zach_Frey2]

Human mAbs vs Rift encephalitis 🦠🧠This was a really cool project to be a part of! Congratulations to everyone involved!

[Armed Forces Pest Management Board @afpmb]

First case of Oropouche virus, aka ‘Sloth Fever,’ confirmed in Kentucky. Spread by biting midges and mosquitoes, it causes symptoms similar to dengue and Zika. Stay protected! 🦟 @CDCgov @WHO @NIH

https://t.co/lbnEVnhGCj

[CDC Emerging Infections @CDC_NCEZID]

Biting midges are small flies that can spread #Oropouche virus. Many commonly used widow and door screens do not have holes small enough to prevent biting midges from getting inside. Learn more about how to prevent bites https://t.co/4fUMJJN4q2

[Amy Hartman 👩‍🔬🏊🏻 @RogueRifter]

Oropouche virus. Very #demure. Very #mindful.

Until it spreads, kills healthy adults, and causes fetal infection and death.

Re-upping this thread 🧵 below from 2 years ago, as well as links to the relevant #Oropouche literature #bunyavirus #lovevirology

[CDC Emerging Infections @CDC_NCEZID]

HCPs: CDC issued a HAN Health Advisory about an increase in #Oropouche virus disease reported in South America & the Caribbean. Five cases of vertical transmission associated with fetal death or congenital abnormalities have been reported. Learn more: https://t.co/qrjRcBTNCA

[Amy Hartman 👩‍🔬🏊🏻 @RogueRifter]

2024 Hartman Lab outing to Pirates vs Phillies 7/19/24 @ PNCPark

Let’s go Bucs!! 🏴‍☠️

[Amy Hartman 👩‍🔬🏊🏻 @RogueRifter]

Excited that our latest paper led by @GoingViral88 is now out as an Editor's Pick in @JVirology !!

@PittCVR @IDM_PittPubHlth @PittPubHealth

https://t.co/ibc3gAt07X

[Zach Frey 🧠🦠🧪 @Zach_Frey2]

So proud to be a part of this paper, which also happens to be my very first! Generating the brain slice cultures is one of the coolest things I’ve learned how to do 🐀 🧠 Congratulations to Kaleigh and everyone else that was a part of this project!!

[Amy Hartman 👩‍🔬🏊🏻 @RogueRifter]

State of the Lab meeting today was fun! #SOTL

Here’s our whole crew ⁦@IDM_PittPubHlth⁩ ⁦@PittCVR⁩

[Amy Hartman 👩‍🔬🏊🏻 @RogueRifter]

Our lab’s entry in the @PittCVR gingerbread house contest #lovevirology
Thanks to @sciencekaleigh @Rush_PhD @Zach_Frey2

[Amy Hartman 👩‍🔬🏊🏻 @RogueRifter]

Happy Holidays from Hartman Lab @PittCVR 🎄🧑‍🎄

[Zach Frey 🧠🦠🧪 @Zach_Frey2]

I got to present my research, eat more popcorn than I care to admit, and I won bingo… the first @PittCVR Trainee Symposium was a success if you ask me 😁🦠🍿

[Amy Hartman 👩‍🔬🏊🏻 @RogueRifter]

Thanks to @mccarthy_kr for organizing the first @PittCVR Trainee Day full of fun science talks and then a screening of #Outbreak with Dustin Hoffman and @PghPopcorn 🍿 🎥

[Amy Hartman 👩‍🔬🏊🏻 @RogueRifter]

We have a new study out today in @NatureComms that is a #collaborative effort between Cindy McMillen @goingviral88 in my lab and Nate Chapman in Jim Crowe’s lab @VUMC_Vaccines.
https://t.co/NoV2742U3r

[Amy Hartman 👩‍🔬🏊🏻 @RogueRifter]

We are excited to share the latest Lrp1 paper out of our lab @PittCVR @IDM_PittPubHlth in collaboration with the Amarasinghe @WUSM_pathology and Leung @wustlmed labs at WashU in St. Louis (they are still not on twitter!). @ScienceAdvances

https://t.co/BKEamBQEu1