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
- Super excited to be sharing our work at Cornell University today. Thanks to Prof. Raina Plowright for hosting. Looking forward to two days of discussions and lots of science. publichealth.cornell.edu/news-events/...
- Amazing opportunity to join @finlaym.bsky.social and work towards large scale collaborative studies. Apply👇🏾
- 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...
- Lucky and humbled to have our work featured alongside such phenomenal colleagues across multiple disciplines. #LZCI #USask #VIDO Read more here. www.sasktoday.ca/saskatoon-to...
- Reposted by Arinjay Banerjee🚨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 ...
- Reposted by Arinjay Banerjee🧪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/?
- Reposted by Arinjay BanerjeeUsing 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...
- Reposted by Arinjay BanerjeeJunior Einsteins After School Science Clubs Fast paced, hands on and packed with real experiments every week. #JuniorEinsteins #AfterSchoolClub #STEMKids #ScienceForKids #KidsActivities
- Reposted by Arinjay BanerjeeJust 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
- What an incredible experience at VIROCON2025! 🎉 Hosted by the National Institute of Virology, the discussions diving into One Health, fundamental virology, and dynamic countermeasures were truly inspiring. It was a pleasure to reconnect with former mentors and collaborate with brilliant minds. 🌍💪
- Reposted by Arinjay BanerjeeSpillover 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
- Reposted by Arinjay BanerjeeNew 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...
- Reposted by Arinjay BanerjeeA 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 🔭 🧪
- We're incredibly proud of Dr. Hannah Mahoney from our laboratory for winning the L'Oréal Canada For Women in Science Research Excellence Fellowships! 🎉 This prestigious recognition, supported by the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, highlights her exceptional contributions to science and research.
- And an amazing presentation by Prof. Overall today. The attention to detail and the ability to follow through on protein-protein interactions and mechanisms that underlie these interactions is remarkable. @vido.org @usask.ca
- Delighted to host Dr. Chris Overall at VIDO, University of Saskatchewan. @cityofsaskatoon.bsky.social Dr. Overall, a renowned proteomics scientist, coined the term “degradomics” to study protein turnover at a systems level. #Proteomics #LoveVirology
- 🌍 Nipah virus (NiV), a zoonotic paramyxovirus from the Henipavirus genus, primarily infects Pteropus bat species across Southeast and South Asia. Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Emerging in the late 1990s in Malaysia, NiV has since sparked outbreaks in Singapore, Bangladesh, India, and the Philippines. The recent NiV outbreak in Kerala, India, in 2023 leaves us with many questions about its spillover pathways.
- In this review, we delve into the complexities of NiV transmission and spillover, spotlighting critical areas that demand further research. We urge a united, multidisciplinary approach in both laboratory settings and the field, emphasizing the necessity of a One Health strategy.
- Delighted to host Dr. Chris Overall at VIDO, University of Saskatchewan. @cityofsaskatoon.bsky.social Dr. Overall, a renowned proteomics scientist, coined the term “degradomics” to study protein turnover at a systems level. #Proteomics #LoveVirology
- Reposted by Arinjay Banerjee🚨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
- Incredibly proud of all trainee presentations today at the One Health Symposium. They were all terrific. Congratulations to all the award winners and shoutout to Dr. Kaushal Baid, Arkadeb Bhuinya and Dr. Benedicte Moni for winning top prizes and People's Choice Awards. Well done!
- #OneHealth So proud of our student committee who put together a phenomenal One Health Symposium today.
- Such amazing diversity in speakers (faculty+trainees) who shared knowledge from across different disciplines like medicine, veterinary medicine, toxicology, vaccinology, agriculture, entomology, engineering, climate and environment health, indigenous ways of learning and knowing, and so much more.
- There is so much to life. And so much to be grateful for. #NorthernLights
- Reposted by Arinjay BanerjeeReview @natrevmicro.nature.com SARS-CoV-2 variants: biology, pathogenicity, immunity and control www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- The bat paradox: what nature’s night flyers could teach us about pandemics – and ourselves, by Linda Geddes. Also, right in time for Halloween. 🦇 Bats are ecologically important and play many crucial roles. www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
- It is a remarkable day for my lab today, #LZCI. Victoria Gonzalez successfully defended her PhD with flying colours. Congratulations, Dr. Victoria Gonzalez! Bravo! #ProudNewPI #Bats #ComparativeImmunology
- Our first PhD student who made phenomenal discoveries in the field of virology and bat comparative immunology and started new lines of research within my laboratory.
- Very grateful to the advisory committee (Drs. Linda Chelico, Vikram Misra, Matthew Miller) for guiding her projects over the last 4 years! Thank you to external examiners, Drs. Amy Gillgrass and Joyce Wilson, the Defence Chair, Dr. Janet Hill, and Committee Chair, Dr. Joe Rubin.
- Reposted by Arinjay BanerjeeWe’ve identified a highly divergent betacoronavirus from South American bat that encodes a functional furin cleavage site. Another fascinating reminder of how diverse coronavirus evolution is in wildlife reservoirs. #Virology #VirusEvolution #Bats #Coronavirus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- It was a pleasure to moderate the *Safeguarding the World Against Viral Pandemics* session today at the 2025 People Around the World (PAW) International Congress. #PAW2025 #USASK #OneHealth @usask.ca @vido.org
- Insights into therapeutics and vaccines, surveillance, critical infrastructure, and training programs that need to be developed and maintained simultaneously for pandemic preparedness and to mitigate threats from ongoing and future viral epidemics and pandemics.
- Thank you to your exceptional speakers, Drs. Miller, Mubareka, Gerdts, and Bhargava.
- Reposted by Arinjay BanerjeeAre bats tolerant of all viruses? With a comparative -omics approach, we show that Egyptian fruit bat cells show both antiviral and pro-inflammatory immune responses to infection with Zika virus while our Jamaican fruit bat cells are not susceptible. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Really cool mechanisms here.
- 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...
- Reposted by Arinjay BanerjeeVery cool phage study from @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social's lab. Isolation, engineering and ecology of temperate phages from the human gut #microbiomesky #phagesky
- From the past: We wrote about this in 2018, but still very relevant and has been for several decades. #OneHealth with Drs. Karen Mossman and Kaushal Baid theconversation.com/one-health-k...
- Reposted by Arinjay BanerjeeFollow 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/...
- Way to go @sauhards.bsky.social. Super proud of your hard work. #PIIN2025 Congratulations to PhD candidate, Sauhard for winning the best poster at the 2025 PIIN conference. #LZCI #LoveVirology
- Dr. Nathalie Grandvaux with her keynote talk on redox regulation during viral infections at #PIIN2025 @ngrandvaux.bsky.social
- 50 years of infectious disease research at Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO), University of Saskatchewan. youtu.be/jbcBSds1jU8?...
- Excellent day of science. So wonderful to see all our #WildEpi trainees doing such good work in the lab and field. Super packed two days of science and a fantastic talk by invited keynote speaker, Dr. Wanda Markotter.
- www.nature.com/articles/s41... Stunning work from the Chandran lab!
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MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 infection in diverse human lung organoid-derived cultures journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... - 🚨 Latest publication from our group and our exceptional collaborators. Led by postdoctoral fellows Drs. Chiok and Jenik. We attempted to test the permissivity of diverse patient origin airway organoid-derived cultures to MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2. #LZCI #LoveVirology journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
- Reposted by Arinjay BanerjeeAI-generated de novo antibiotic compounds show activity against drug-resistant bacteria #NBThighlight www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
- Reposted by Arinjay BanerjeeIf 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! 🧠🔁
- And with that, Victoria is off to her next adventure at the University of Toronto. She published several cool studies with us and will be back next month to defend her PhD! Proud of you, Vic! #LZCI #LoveVirology Victoria’s recent study 👉🏾 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Arinjay Banerjee(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
- Next week, PhD candidate, Victoria Gonzalez embarks on a new journey and will be moving. She started in 2021 in my newly established lab and published several cool studies. It’s hard to see her leave. She’ll be back to defend her PhD in October. Undoubtedly, we will miss you.. #LZCI #LoveVirology
- Reposted by Arinjay BanerjeeFurther 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
- 🚨 Recent publication from the Mossman laboratory at McMaster University, led by Dr. Rajesh Jacob, Ph.D. Distinct circulating autoantibodies are associated with COVID-19 hospitalization and SARS-CoV-2 neutralization activity: www.nature.com/articles/s44....
- WOW, What a day! PhD student, Arely defended her PhD with flying colours! Congratulations, Dr. Hernandez! 👏🏾 #LoveVirology #LZCI
- Reposted by Arinjay BanerjeeSpread 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
- Reposted by Arinjay Banerjee📣 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
- This week three trainees from the lab are in Montreal for the Canadian One Health training platform on Emerging Zoonosis workshop. #LZCI @abhuinya.bsky.social @Rita @sauhards.bsky.social #OneHealth
- It was such a terrific feeling to host my former PhD supervisor, Prof. Vikram Misra and watch him interact with my trainees. Always a great time with you, Vikram! #LoveVirology #LZCI
- I had an excellent time at #IBRC2025 hosting the comparative immunology sessions and co-presenting our work on bat antiviral immunity with Dr. Irving at the Bat1K symposium. (1/2)
- It was incredible to meet so many old and new colleagues and friends and watching our PhD student, Sauhard Shrivastava give an excellent talk. Overall, we learnt lots and we are certainly returning with more ideas and inspiration. Thank you, #IBRC2025. #LZCI (2/2) @ibrc2025.bsky.social
- After 11 years, Aaron and I tag teamed a joint seminar on Genotype to Phenotype: Bat immunity at #IBRC2025 @batresearch.bsky.social @ibrc2025.bsky.social
- More bat-virus interactions in bats at #IBRC2025. This time by @jennbarr.bsky.social. @ibrc2025.bsky.social
- Dr. @alibat.bsky.social talking about virus-host interactions in bats at @ibrc2025.bsky.social #IBRC2025
- Very proud of PhD student, @sauhards.bsky.social for representing our lab at #IBRC2025. 👏🏾 @ibrc2025.bsky.social #LZCI
