GeroldLab
Enthusiastic about how viruses interact with host cells, proteomics, paragliding, mountains in general. Austria and Sweden based happy crowd of scientists.
- Traveling with #DeutscheBahn. First class ticket and you have to work on the floor. Amazing. Needless to say that this is not very safe.
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- Team GG‘s first Innsbruck #Master student, Marie Parigger, defended her thesis on Tspans in #alphavirus #species #transmission. 😃Congratulations Marie! 👏 Also to Anja de Bruin, her superb lab #supervisor. 🙏The meme created by Marie makes us feel strong to face future challenges. 😉#lovevirology
- Come join us for a newly funded @horizoneu.bsky.social @globalhealthedctp3.bsky.social project on CHIKV vaccine responses in vulnerable populations in Africa. We seek a highly motivated and skilled #postdoc and #projectmanager. Please find details here: virologie.i-med.ac.at/career/ #lovevirology
- The #InstituteOfVirologyInnsbruck (IVI) kicked off 2026 with our retreat on arbovirology, respiratory viruses, viral diagnostics and applied virology. 😃Our 2 keynotes @danielaweiskopf & Niklas Arnberg from @umeauniversitet gave new insights on CHIKV T cell responses and adenoviruses. 🙏🤩
- Happy holidays to all colleagues, customers, supporters and friends! Your institute of virology Innsbruck (#IVI) #lovevirology #happyholidays #gratitude
- Thanks a lot to the Tübingen virologists Tina Ganzenmüller, @sauterlab.bsky.social, Michael Schindler, Thomas Iftner et al. for hosting me yesterday. It was lovely to be back at my #AlmaMater and present and discuss our latest work on #alphavirus, i.e. CHIKV & VEEV - host interaction. #lovevirology
- Congratulations to the new #GfV board of directors 👏and thank you to Ulf Dittmer, Sandra Ciesek, Klaus Überla, Jörg Timm and Stephie Pfänder for the past productive period. 🙏Happy to serve on the advisory board again and that my “baby”, the connection to the #Swedish #virologist 🇸🇪is well received.
- Reposted by GeroldLabGreat news for everyone working on EVs and viruses: the #GFV2026 meeting will include a full session on #ExtracellularVesicles in Viral Infection! Looking forward to the discussions and abstracts from our communities. 📅 17–20 March 2026, Heidelberg 📝 Abstracts: 4 Jan 2026 🔗 virology-meeting.de
- Florian Krammer from #ISMMS and #Semmelweis Institute is visiting Innsbruck. Tonight at the public library Innsbruck we will have a panel discussion on how we can prepare for future pandemic threats and improve #globalhealth. #pandemicpreparedness #lovevirology #flu #arboviruses #rapidresponse
- The currently circulating seasonal #influenza H3N2 subclade K increases unusually early this season. #Vaccination highly recommended especially for individuals >65 years and individuals with #chronic diseases or #immunocompromised. See also the @ecdc.europa.eu assessment: tinyurl.com/7rrsj86h
- Excellent speaker lineup at the international #arbovirus webinar. Huge thank you to the organizers Tem Morrison, @tulilab.bsky.social and @clive-mckimmie.bsky.social for their continued commitment to this scientific community service. 🙏 #lovevirology
- Thank you very much @globalvirusnews.bsky.social for the kind invitation to present at the Forefront of #Virology seminar series. Also thanks to all those colleagues and students dialing in and for the good discussion round. #lovevirology 🙏
- This week Derek Smith, Director of the Center for Pathogen Evolution at Cambridge University visited us at the Institute of #Virology #IVI #Innsbruck and gave an excellent talk on advanced vaccines and immunity management. Thanks a lot Derek for the excellent talk and discussions! #lovevirology
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- Reposted by GeroldLabAlways fun when the word "unusually" turns up in a UKHSA doc: "influenza activity increased, particularly among children, and is now above baseline. This is an unusually early start of the influenza season." www.gov.uk/government/s...
- Reposted by GeroldLab🦟 We've just published the world's first head-to-toe single-cell atlas of the Aedes aegypti mosquito in @cp-cell.bsky.social! The #MosquitoCellAtlas maps 69 cell types across 19 tissues, revealing surprising biology. Read it here: shorturl.at/dJWT3
- Last week‘s One Health Tyrol Symposium organized by Lorenz Kohl from #vetmeduni Vienna was an excellent opportunity to exchange ideas across disciplines. Thanks to the colleagues from human & veterinary medicine, basic science & the political stakeholders for the terrific exchange. #lovevirology
- Terrific talk and excellent discussions at our Institute of Virology seminar series #IVI by Judith Aberle @aberlejudith.bsky.social. Judith presented her latest work on TBEV B and T cell responses as well as TBEV epidemiology in Austria. It was wonderful to have you here. Thank you! 🙏#lovevirology
- We are very excited to have you here in Innsbruck @aberlejudith.bsky.social ! Judith Aberle from Medical University Vienna will share her latest data on TBEV at our Virology Seminar. Safe travels Judith and see you very soon! 🌼
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- #SARS-CoV-2 wave starting early in the respiratory virus season as last year. Possibly Covid booster #vaccinations should start in September if this pattern holds true in the upcoming years. #health #staysafe
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- The Institute of #Virology #Innsbruck aka #IVI lab outing 2025 was a lot of fun despite unfavorable weather. Thanks everyone for making it an event to remember. 🤩 #teamspirit #lovevirology
- Our one and only Institute of Virology Innsbruck (IVI) was well represented at the Tyrolean Company Run 2025. Thanks to all the employees who ran or cheered for us! It‘s been a blast. 🙏 #lovevirology #teamspirit
- Thanks for the clarification. Indeed it is the passive immunization with Nirsevimqb that I was referring to.
- Great news. The RSV vaccine will be freely available for newborns from October onwards. Effective protection from the most common cause of severe respiratory tract infection in newborns and toddlers.
- Good news ⭐️ RSV-Schutz mit Nirsevimab, das schwere Atemwegs-Erkrankungen um >80% reduziert, wird ab Oktober allen Neugeborenen kostenlos zur Verfügung stehen Kinder mit erhöhtem Risiko für schwere Verläufe erhalten die Immunisierung auch vor ihrer zweiten RSV-Saison science.orf.at/stories/3231...
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- Wonderful news for the #Virology community. Congratulations Carla @salehlabparis and all the best for this new era. You will do great! #WomenInSTEM #Science
- Thrilled (and humbled!) to share that since today I am the Chair of the Virology Department at @pasteur.fr. Grateful to my colleagues for their trust. Now let’s push the frontiers of virus research together. The sky is the limit! 🦠🔬 #Virology #Science #TeamPasteur
- Congratulations Dr. Yoo! 👏Today Ju Eun Yoo from our team successfully defended her #thesis work on #alphavirus transmission at the #mosquito - human interface. 🍾Stay tuned for her publication. Anybody looking for a talented postdoc: my highest recommendations! #lovevirology #prouddoctoralsupervisor
- Scientist’s Sunday #triathlon: biking to the station, train ride (working) and evening run in very flat northern Germany ;) But it’s nice to be #home. The landscape is beautiful in a different way. #gratitude
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- On my way to Hanover, where our last #PhDstudent from the Hannover team Ju Eun Yoo will defend her thesis tomorrow. Stay tuned! While Europe is facing a #heatwave, the beautiful scarf that @salehlabparis.bsky.social gave me for the inauguration is on board, in case the train AC is working. 😉
- Yesterday at Gisa’s inaugural symposium Carla Saleh @salehlabparis.bsky.social and Elisabeth Puchhammer from @meduniwien.ac.at gave wonderful talks. A huge thank you to all colleagues, friends and family who came and celebrated with us! A bright start for the Institute of Virology Innsbruck (#IVI)!
- Excellent talks and posters at the #Gordon research conference #Viruses & #Cells in Casteldelfels, Spain. Wonderful to meet colleagues and friends from all over the world.
- Celebrating the successful move of our research labs on campus. Thanks a lot to everyone at the Institute of #Virology Innsbruck #IVI for your good #team spirit! 🙏To a bright and successful future in the new building! #lovevirology
- Five months after moving the lab from Germany to Austria, we are again packing up offices and labs to move next door on campus. A huge thank you to all employees for keeping up the good spirit in these tricky times! #gratitude #teamspirit 🙏All because we #loveviroloy
- Oh happy day 🎺🎉🥂🍾 Congratulations Dr. Duven! Mara defended her thesis today and did very well. 👏Thanks to the external reviewers Eva Herker and Andres Merits! Please find Mara‘s work on host factors of #encephalitic alphaviruses published in MBoC here: tinyurl.com/mpcc44rf #WomenInSTEM #virology
- Please find our Society of Virology @gesvirologie.bsky.social statement on „5 years COVID-19“ here. It reflects on the pandemic, its scientific assessment and learnings. Thanks a lot to all colleagues making an effort to inform the public. 🙏
- Thank you very much Anna Oeverby from @umeauniversitet.bsky.social for sharing exciting work on #TBEV #neuroinfection, SNSeq thereof, and 3D #imaging of infected brains; also for discussions on ongoing projects and future joint work. Scientific exchange kindly enabled by @infect-net.bsky.social 🙏
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- Happy #InternationalWomensDay to all those wonderful #colleagues and #friends out there! Citing Serena Williams: "Every woman's success should be an inspiration to another. We're strongest when we cheer each other on." Much of #success, strength and #inspiration to you all! We can fly high!
- Hundreds of #virologists queing for the dinner party of the #GfV2025 conference in #Hamburg. Thanks a lot to Thomas Dobner and his team for organizing a vibrant #conference of the #DACH society with terrific keynote speakers! 🙏 The GfV board of directors wishes all participants a safe trip home! 🤗
- Ju Eun presenting her PhD work on the role of TIM-1 during #mosquito mammalian transmission of #alphaviruses at the #GfV2025 conference. Well done Ju Eun! 👏😃 @gesvirologie.bsky.social
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- Hot off the press. Joint work with the one and only Noushin Emami 🙏😃on mosquito behavior driven by odorants released from Zika virus infected skin cells. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
- The 10th Swiss #Virology Meeting is fabulous. Thanks for inviting me as keynote. Interesting science and terrific questions by #students and #postdocs at the carreer session. Plus a nice location in Bern. #lovevirology
- Reposted by GeroldLabIn a great collaboration with @hummerlab.bsky.social and the Kräusslich lab: HIV capsid doesn't break at the NPC; instead, it cracks open the NPC itself! Details in Cell: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... @mpibp.bsky.social @uniheidelberg.bsky.social A thread below:
- The GeroldLab has moved to @meduniibk.bsky.social! This week we celebrated a fresh start with wonderful colleagues in Austria with terrific complementary expertise. Stay tuned! Thank you to the whole institute for the beautiful welcome flowers! 😍. #teamspirit #newbeginnings #lovevirology
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- On the way home to Innsbruck after two productive days at the @gesvirologie.bsky.social board meeting in Düsseldorf. Important and fruitful discussions covering diverse topics in #virology in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Picture shows an art museum, but our board meeting location was nice too.
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- On my way to the Leibniz Institute of Virology LIV to present our latest work on #arboviruses and multi-#omics. Thanks for the invite to the LIV students! 🙏Looking forward to seeing the Hamburg colleagues. 😃#LoveVirology
- Congratulations Dr. Carriqui-Madronal! Belén defended her thesis today. Thank you Julie Sheldon @julieas73 and Judith Gottwein @JGottwein for serving as reviewers. Also a big thank you to Eike Steinmann @VirologyBochum for his efforts as co-supervisor. 🙏
