🚨 Systems Virology Journal Club – 8th Series! 🚨
#BillSchneider and I are delighted to announce another round of cutting-edge talks in #SystemsVirology! 🦠💡
Join us and an outstanding lineup of speakers, starting Oct 30.
Free registration: shiraweingartengabbay.com/systems-viro... 🔬✨

On my way to #ASV2025. Two flights canceled due to weather ⛈️ but should make it on time! Join us for a terrific symposium tomorrow morning on #NextGenerationVirology with
#BenhurLee #JesseBloom #LisaWagner @wchnicholas.bsky.social and #IleanaCristea. Safe travel everyone! #LoveVirology

MPRP works across diverse viral families. We observed striking similarity in ribosome footprints on certain annotated and non-canonical ORFs between MPRP and virus-infected cells—including a newly revealed internal ORF in #flu and a well-studied ribosome stalling site in #HCMV

MPRP doesn’t require culturing viruses—we go straight from genome to ORF discovery, quickly, safely, and at scale. We built on ribosome profiling developed by @nickingolia.bsky.social and @jswlab.bsky.social and combined it with oligo synthesis to measure ribosome footprints on 15,000 sequences

In 2021, we showed that unannotated proteins in #SARSCoV2 were preferentially presented on the MHC-I complex and elicited stronger T cell responses. Yet they remained invisible during the first five months of the pandemic—a lifetime in pandemic response. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

If you love #viruses, #ribosomes, and genomic #darkmatter, this thread is for you!! 💫
We're excited to share our new publication developing Massively Parallel Ribosome Profiling (MPRP), which uncovered ~4,000 hidden proteins in ~700 viral genomes. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The Weingarten Lab is officially in business! 🎉 Huge thanks to the incredible @harvardmicro.bsky.social EHS team for their guidance and support as we got set up, and a special shoutout to Jessie, our amazing lab manager, for passing our first safety inspection with flying colors! 💥🧪

This week was my last retreat as a postdoc at the @broadinstitute.org 🥹 I was incredibly honored to receive the Eric S. Lander award and to talk about the dark proteome of viruses. Excited to begin my next chapter at @harvardmed.bsky.social next month! (thx @lauraluebbert.com for the lovely 📸)

@wmschneider.bsky.social and I are thrilled to invite you to the 7th series of the International *Systems Virology Journal Club*! 🎉 🥂🌟
We are hosting a stellar line-up of speakers working at the intersection of virology and systems biology.
Registration (free): forms.gle/edTyLwR8jWkh...

I'm delighted to share that I will be joining the Department of Microbiology at Harvard Medical School in January 2025. The Laboratory of Systems Virology will study the dark proteome of viral genomes to understand how viruses work their magic🪄 Thrilled to be back in beautiful Boston 🌟