Arinjay Banerjee
Virologist | Canada Research Chair in Zoonotic Viruses and Animal Reservoirs | Co-Lead, One Health, USask | CAHS Emerging Leader | My team investigates how zoonotic viruses make us sick #LZCI | My views
Laboratory website: banerjeelab.ca
- Come join my group as a postdoc on a fun wildepi.ca project looking at the evolution of endemic alpha- and betacoronaviruses in Canadian wildlife. Computational work will inform concurrent experimental work in the @banerjeelab.ca and @smubareka.bsky.social groups! bioinformatics.ca/jobs/postdoc...
- 🧪Continuity is essential to scientific discovery as shown by the many projects bearing 🥑🥝🍇🍒this year. Here is the 2025 lab recap! Intermittent, unpredictable and likely to be incomplete 1/?
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View full thread🧪Our next paper out wasn’t as long in coming, but a massive🌎🌍🌏effort. Back in 2020 we at @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social decided to generate & analyze new 🧬assemblies from 🦇species whose #CoVs🦠relate to human pathogens; we thought it’d be out in a year 🤪 6/? 👉🏽 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- 🚨Over time this team led by @hillermich.bsky.social & @ariadnamorales.bsky.social had to overcome 🦇sample confusion, design & complete many functional analyses shout-out @batresearch.bsky.social @banerjeelab.ca through year-long bouts of review 7/? bsky.app/profile/hill...
- Happy to report that our work on immune system adaptations in bats is now out in @nature.com 🦇🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @ariadnamorales.bsky.social @batresearch.bsky.social @virology.bsky.social @DGKontopoulos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy @sgn.one @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social Read more ...
- Guess the news is officially out! Extremely excited to announce that I will be starting my own laboratory at Institut Pasteur @pasteur.fr this coming spring! Slight change to my office window view from Tokyo Tower🗼 to the Tour Eiffel. 🇫🇷
- Using kidney organoids to test AAV-delivered #CRISPR/Cas9, researchers found that AAV induces genotoxicity and IL-1β, while their inhibition reduces fibrosis, proving organoids as a vital safety testing platform. @harvardmed.bsky.social #STTT #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1038/s413...
- Junior Einsteins After School Science Clubs Fast paced, hands on and packed with real experiments every week. #JuniorEinsteins #AfterSchoolClub #STEMKids #ScienceForKids #KidsActivities
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- Our latest paper on bat Dicer! 🦇 we show that Dicer antiviral RNAi activity is context-dependent also in bats 👩🔬 Specifically in Myotis myotis nasal epithelial cells, Dicer relocalizes to sites of viral replication upon alphavirus infection, which correlates with a proviral activity of Dicer 🦠
- Just in time for Christmas, here is the latest paper from the lab! Great work from @leagaucherand.bsky.social and Hugo Marie, with help from Julie Cremaschi. Funded by @frm-officiel.bsky.social, @agencerecherche.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plospathogen... @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @unistra.fr
- Just in time for Christmas, here is the latest paper from the lab! Great work from @leagaucherand.bsky.social and Hugo Marie, with help from Julie Cremaschi. Funded by @frm-officiel.bsky.social, @agencerecherche.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plospathogen... @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @unistra.fr
- Spillover of #influenza A viruses from animals to humans represents a threat to our health. In this Perspective, Silke Stertz @virology.uzh.ch discusses emerging research that suggests some influenza A viruses can enter host cells via MHC-II receptors across species 🧪 #virology
- New preprint from the lab, and joint first authors @biomarkella.bsky.social and @stephenholmes.bsky.social! Single-cell phenotypic analysis and multiplet detection through incorporation of microscopy data into cellenONE-based single-cell proteomic data analysis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Roslin Reels - The Roslin Institute's Finn Grey talks about his team's work on understanding viral infections. For more information on our research, check out our website: www.roslin.ed.ac.uk @uoe-eid.bsky.social #RoslinReels #PublicHealth
- A paper in Nature presents evidence of lightning on Mars, detected in sounds and electrical signals captured by NASA’s Perseverance rove. The observations indicate that Mars’s atmosphere is electrically active, which may have implications for future exploration. go.nature.com/49IbPpg 🔭 🧪
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- All hail Caenorhabditis elegans, one of the most researched organisms on Earth. Collaborative data sharing in the nematode research community led to four Nobel Prize-winning discoveries about human development and disease. In PNAS: ow.ly/uNqU50Xyj4e
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- 🚨1 week left until Abstract submission closes for the upcoming Nature conference "Corals, Coasts and One Health" 🪸 natureconferences.streamgo.live/corals-coast... Join editors from @natecoevo.nature.com , @natclimate.nature.com , @natrevearthenviron.nature.com & @commsbio.nature.com 14–16 Feb 2026
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- There is so much to life. And so much to be grateful for. #NorthernLights
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View full threadYes. I did. From our house.
- Nice! There was some action down under too. Although not quite as impressive as yours
- Did you take that pic Arinjay? I’m hoping to see the Southern Lights tonight!
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- Review @natrevmicro.nature.com SARS-CoV-2 variants: biology, pathogenicity, immunity and control www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Excited to share some new work from the lab, led by @shelbyeandersen.bsky.social where we developed a method and computational pipeline to identify antiphage defenses across diverse bacterial phyla.
- Serine recombinases are conserved genetic markers of antiphage defense systems biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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- WOW! Our survey of scientists who stopped using Twitter and started using Bluesky is now the #1 most-shared on social media article in the history of the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology! Thanks for reading it, everyone! @sicbjournals.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/icb/... 🧪
- The IFIT2–IFIT3 antiviral complex targets short 5’ untranslated regions on viral mRNAs for translation inhibition By Dustin Glasner, Matthew Daugherty & colleagues. #microsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Very cool phage study from @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social's lab. Isolation, engineering and ecology of temperate phages from the human gut #microbiomesky #phagesky
- Follow up publication describing immunogenicity and efficacy in NHPs of historical and contemporary H5N1 vaccine compositions against challenge with contemporary cattle virus isolate. What we concluded in mice did not translate to NHPs. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- New paper! In collaboration with NIAID, we asked: how effective are vaccines designed against historical #H5N1 viruses in naïve mice challenged with the contemporary cattle virus? Turns out that the new isolates are different enough to warrant further evaluation of updated vaccine compositions. 🧪
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MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 infection in diverse human lung organoid-derived cultures journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...- If you are interested in 🧠 LOOPS this is for YOU. We are curating an article collection on cortico-subcortical interactions in the vertebrate brain. Participating journals include @commsbio.nature.com @natneuro.nature.com @natcomms.nature.com & SciRep. We look fwd to your contributions!!
- 🌀 Join the Loop! 🌀 Submit to @natureportfolio.nature.com’s Loops Collection on circuits, feedback & cycles, guest-edited by our own Loops crew @talking-bat.bsky.social , Markus Rothermal & @stefanieliebe.bsky.social 📅 Deadline: 28 Feb 2026 ‼️ 🔗 www.nature.com/collections/... Submit now! 🧠🔁
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- (1/2) The 'Biomedical & Basic Science Research' session at the 2025 #LCWSymposium explores experiences of healthcare professionals, brain activity changes linked to #LongCOVID, & pulmonary pathophysiology. Date: Oct 20, 2025, 1.45–2.45 PM NT Register now: bit.ly/4hRoczz
- Further loss of critically endangered African forest elephants due to the ivory trade will likely result in the continued decline of African ebony trees, suggests a newly discovered mutualistic relationship between the charismatic species described in #ScienceAdvances. scim.ag/4oVjHIY
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- Spread the word - we at @stanford-chemh.bsky.social are searching to fill a new junior faculty at the interface of molecular and computational science. See link below!
- Open faculty position! We're seeking applicants for a tenure-track faculty position at the junior level (Assistant or untenured Associate Professor) with research programs that exist at the interface between molecular science and computation. Apply here: stanford.io/45MF3Qa
- 📣 Ready to lead your own lab? NTU Singapore's Nanyang Assistant Professorship offers a 100% paid salary & a S$2.75M start-up package. We're visiting the US this Sept to recruit top talent. Meet us in NYC, Boston & more! #FacultyJobs #TenureTrack Register HERE: lnkd.in/gSy5qpA7
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- My department @utoronto.ca (www.utm.utoronto.ca/biology/) is hiring a molecular biologist in any field (e.g., ecology, evolutionary biology, etc.). Please encourage any excellent finishing PhD students, postdocs or assistant professor to apply here: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...
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