Vignuzzi Lab
@vignuzzilab.bsky.social
Antiviral therapeutics and virology. ASTAR ID Labs in Singapore. Diversity and compassion in STEM and academia, LGBTQQIP2SAA and anyone under the rainbow. Major in virology, minor in fitness.
Congratulations to our phd student Thomas for winning the best poster prize at the Pasteur Cambodia Immunology course!!
November 30, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Congratulations to our phd student Thomas for winning the best poster prize at the Pasteur Cambodia Immunology course!!
Who remembers sequencing their molecular cloning experiments by hand and eye?!? Running your own acrylamide gels and reading the four bases from top to bottom of gel, to only get 200 nt read from a single mini prep hoping your insert was ok!?
November 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Who remembers sequencing their molecular cloning experiments by hand and eye?!? Running your own acrylamide gels and reading the four bases from top to bottom of gel, to only get 200 nt read from a single mini prep hoping your insert was ok!?
Happening now! Prof Yue WANG, our pillar of Fungal biology at ASTAR ID Labs, is celebrating over 4 decades of research in his last seminar before retirement. What a great life story!
November 28, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Happening now! Prof Yue WANG, our pillar of Fungal biology at ASTAR ID Labs, is celebrating over 4 decades of research in his last seminar before retirement. What a great life story!
This was an excellent talk by a brilliant scientist, Kei Sato, from University of Tokyo, opening up a second satellite lab at Duke-NUS! Great news for Singapore virology!
November 25, 2025 at 3:47 AM
This was an excellent talk by a brilliant scientist, Kei Sato, from University of Tokyo, opening up a second satellite lab at Duke-NUS! Great news for Singapore virology!
Tomorrow at IDLabs! 10am in Matrix building, Codon room
Seminar by Kei Sato!
Seminar by Kei Sato!
November 24, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Tomorrow at IDLabs! 10am in Matrix building, Codon room
Seminar by Kei Sato!
Seminar by Kei Sato!
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This explains the recent outbreak of arts and crafts in @astar-idlabs.bsky.social @vignuzzilab.bsky.social @alnajifg.bsky.social
If you'd like to celebrate the biology of viruses - or the fight against viral diseases - this winter, try out our free and updated #VirusSnowflake designs.
Please share, and if you have any photos of Virus Snowflakes in your area it would be lovely to see them!
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Please share, and if you have any photos of Virus Snowflakes in your area it would be lovely to see them!
cvr-engagement.co.uk/virus-snowfl...
November 19, 2025 at 3:13 AM
This explains the recent outbreak of arts and crafts in @astar-idlabs.bsky.social @vignuzzilab.bsky.social @alnajifg.bsky.social
This week, my lab, and research institute A*IDL, and A*STAR signed an ideation agreement with Flagship Pioneering Biotech and one of their portfolio companies Apriori to develop self-amplifying RNA vaccines for pandemic Flu threats. (1/3)
November 16, 2025 at 3:19 AM
This week, my lab, and research institute A*IDL, and A*STAR signed an ideation agreement with Flagship Pioneering Biotech and one of their portfolio companies Apriori to develop self-amplifying RNA vaccines for pandemic Flu threats. (1/3)
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Sharing this, quite relevant this week. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism
have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant
but neglected, a heroine t...
www.thelancet.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Sharing this, quite relevant this week. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Szarina brought in virus snowflake cutout-yourself printouts to prepare for the Singapore winter and Christmas!
November 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Szarina brought in virus snowflake cutout-yourself printouts to prepare for the Singapore winter and Christmas!
Today we had a computational virology workshop with Profs. Veronika Bernhauerova (Charles University Czechia) and Bartek Lisowski (Jagiellonian University Krakow, Dr. Spyros Lytras (Univ Tokyo) and Cedric Tan (UCL Crick Institute). 4 hours of chit chat and coming up with ways to collaborate.
November 6, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Today we had a computational virology workshop with Profs. Veronika Bernhauerova (Charles University Czechia) and Bartek Lisowski (Jagiellonian University Krakow, Dr. Spyros Lytras (Univ Tokyo) and Cedric Tan (UCL Crick Institute). 4 hours of chit chat and coming up with ways to collaborate.
Afternoon coffee break at Top Coffee Shop in Asia, number 6 in the world, dunno who’s list but must be an important one: Apartment Cafe. With Veronika Bernhauerova from Charles University Czechia and Bartek Lisowski of Jagiellonian University in Krakow Poland.
November 4, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Afternoon coffee break at Top Coffee Shop in Asia, number 6 in the world, dunno who’s list but must be an important one: Apartment Cafe. With Veronika Bernhauerova from Charles University Czechia and Bartek Lisowski of Jagiellonian University in Krakow Poland.
First big piece of research from our SG lab: Fadi's work with Chris Brooke's lab. Flu serially passaged 80X selects a defective genome with improved competition, but is nonviable as a full virus!
Notable improvement & safety for DVGs as antiviral RNA therapies!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Notable improvement & safety for DVGs as antiviral RNA therapies!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Longitudinal analysis of influenza A virus deletion-containing viral genomes reveals key determinants of co-evolutionary dynamics and interference
The substantial genetic diversity generated during influenza A virus replication facilitates both evasion of pre-existing host immunity and cross-species emergence. A major contributor to this diversi...
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November 4, 2025 at 3:17 AM
First big piece of research from our SG lab: Fadi's work with Chris Brooke's lab. Flu serially passaged 80X selects a defective genome with improved competition, but is nonviable as a full virus!
Notable improvement & safety for DVGs as antiviral RNA therapies!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Notable improvement & safety for DVGs as antiviral RNA therapies!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Welcome to our lab Mingcong (Albert) to our lab! Albert is from Chengdu China and will be an intern in our lab for the next seven months working with Fadi Alnaji.
October 21, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Welcome to our lab Mingcong (Albert) to our lab! Albert is from Chengdu China and will be an intern in our lab for the next seven months working with Fadi Alnaji.
Happy Diwali
Happy Deepavali
To all celebrating in Singapore and beyond!
Happy Deepavali
To all celebrating in Singapore and beyond!
October 20, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Happy Diwali
Happy Deepavali
To all celebrating in Singapore and beyond!
Happy Deepavali
To all celebrating in Singapore and beyond!
Be positive. Love thyself. Try to love others too.
October 13, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Be positive. Love thyself. Try to love others too.
Happening now. Prof. Kartik Chandran, in Singapore this week for the HCV & Flaviviruses conference, is speaking to ID Labs scientists on their coronavirus research.
October 10, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Happening now. Prof. Kartik Chandran, in Singapore this week for the HCV & Flaviviruses conference, is speaking to ID Labs scientists on their coronavirus research.
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🦠 "Social Virology at the Tri-Kingdom Interface in Birds and Mammals" 🐥
We have a new 4y (open to intl students) PhD project advertised through the NorthWestBio Doctoral Training Partnership (lnkd.in/ee8hRpN6 ) between QUBelfast and Lancaster on virus-bacterial interactions across vertebrates!
We have a new 4y (open to intl students) PhD project advertised through the NorthWestBio Doctoral Training Partnership (lnkd.in/ee8hRpN6 ) between QUBelfast and Lancaster on virus-bacterial interactions across vertebrates!
October 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
🦠 "Social Virology at the Tri-Kingdom Interface in Birds and Mammals" 🐥
We have a new 4y (open to intl students) PhD project advertised through the NorthWestBio Doctoral Training Partnership (lnkd.in/ee8hRpN6 ) between QUBelfast and Lancaster on virus-bacterial interactions across vertebrates!
We have a new 4y (open to intl students) PhD project advertised through the NorthWestBio Doctoral Training Partnership (lnkd.in/ee8hRpN6 ) between QUBelfast and Lancaster on virus-bacterial interactions across vertebrates!
Had a reminder by my colleague Amit Singhal that two years ago to this day our faculty had a retreat in my medieval village of Noyers-sur-Serein. Missing this clunky old house! 🏰 ❤️
October 6, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Had a reminder by my colleague Amit Singhal that two years ago to this day our faculty had a retreat in my medieval village of Noyers-sur-Serein. Missing this clunky old house! 🏰 ❤️
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New #QVEU preprint! @williambakhache.bsky.social used our #EV71 mutational scanning library to dissect replication complex function with a collection of inhibitors against specific host and viral factors. Then used the data to validate structural predictions! Super cool #virosky #virus #evolution
Genotype-by-Inhibitor Interactions to Dissect Enterovirus Replication
Replication organelles of positive-sense RNA viruses are essential to virus biology, yet their molecular mechanisms remain poorly defined. While deep mutational scanning (DMS) measures the impact of m...
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September 29, 2025 at 8:13 PM
New #QVEU preprint! @williambakhache.bsky.social used our #EV71 mutational scanning library to dissect replication complex function with a collection of inhibitors against specific host and viral factors. Then used the data to validate structural predictions! Super cool #virosky #virus #evolution
Very cool paper that I presented to journal club today by Singer et al, by Tal Danino and Charlie Rice labs.
I LOVE this paper!
rdcu.be/eH4le
As a postdoc in Andino lab 20 years ago, we took a similar strategy to deliver recombinant RNA viruses or saRNA by intracellular S. typhimurium.
I LOVE this paper!
rdcu.be/eH4le
As a postdoc in Andino lab 20 years ago, we took a similar strategy to deliver recombinant RNA viruses or saRNA by intracellular S. typhimurium.
Engineered bacteria launch and control an oncolytic virus
Nature Biomedical Engineering - CAPPSID relies on an engineered S. typhimurium to act as a synthetic ‘capsid’ to transcribe and deliver viral RNA inside cancer cells, launching a virus...
rdcu.be
September 25, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Very cool paper that I presented to journal club today by Singer et al, by Tal Danino and Charlie Rice labs.
I LOVE this paper!
rdcu.be/eH4le
As a postdoc in Andino lab 20 years ago, we took a similar strategy to deliver recombinant RNA viruses or saRNA by intracellular S. typhimurium.
I LOVE this paper!
rdcu.be/eH4le
As a postdoc in Andino lab 20 years ago, we took a similar strategy to deliver recombinant RNA viruses or saRNA by intracellular S. typhimurium.
Lab 🌈 at @astar-idlabs.bsky.social annual retreat at Universal Studios Singapore! What’s your colour? Where’s your pot of gold?
September 20, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Lab 🌈 at @astar-idlabs.bsky.social annual retreat at Universal Studios Singapore! What’s your colour? Where’s your pot of gold?
My lab found me in my hiding spot when I try to avoid responsibilities.
Back to work.
Back to work.
September 12, 2025 at 4:44 AM
My lab found me in my hiding spot when I try to avoid responsibilities.
Back to work.
Back to work.
Interested in attending the EMBO Lecture Course, entitled "RNA virus infection and host immune responses," hosted in Faridabad, India, on 11 – 14 February 2026?
sign up here:
meetings.embo.org/event/26-rna...
sign up here:
meetings.embo.org/event/26-rna...
RNA virus infection and host immune responses
The India I EMBO Lecture Course on “RNA virus infection and host immune responses” addresses cutting-edge research in emerging and reemerging RNA viruses, with particular emphasis on fundamental infe…
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September 11, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Interested in attending the EMBO Lecture Course, entitled "RNA virus infection and host immune responses," hosted in Faridabad, India, on 11 – 14 February 2026?
sign up here:
meetings.embo.org/event/26-rna...
sign up here:
meetings.embo.org/event/26-rna...
Congratulations to Jolene Fu from the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur. Today she defended her PhD thesis on COVID immune escape and evolution. Excellent dissertation and oral defence.
Dr. Jolene Fu, PhD!
Dr. Jolene Fu, PhD!
September 9, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Congratulations to Jolene Fu from the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur. Today she defended her PhD thesis on COVID immune escape and evolution. Excellent dissertation and oral defence.
Dr. Jolene Fu, PhD!
Dr. Jolene Fu, PhD!
Immigrant to new Citizens, 1977-1980, Canada. Our Citizenship photos.
Why was my photo different? Always the odd one out!
Why was my photo different? Always the odd one out!
September 8, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Immigrant to new Citizens, 1977-1980, Canada. Our Citizenship photos.
Why was my photo different? Always the odd one out!
Why was my photo different? Always the odd one out!