Carolina B. Lopez
@CBLopezLab
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Professor | Our lab studies how viruses interact with their host. We spend a lot of time thinking about non-standard viral genomes. Posts are my own.
St Louis, MO
Joined March 2010
ALLEA Statement on Threats to Academic Freedom and International Research Collaboration in the United States - ALLEA
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America’s loss, China’s gain: top Chinese universities welcome PhD refugees from the US | South China Morning Post
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As the US cuts funding and suspends graduate admissions, China’s leading educational institutions are offering new academic pathways.
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Why Cutting Basic Science Funding May Amount to Economic Unilateral Disarmament | American Enterprise Institute - AEI
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Earlier this month, Eric Berger of Ars Technica reported that the White Houses’ first budget request of Donald Trump’s second term could be a fiscal reckoning for America’s government scientific...
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And w/o federal funding research in the US is largely compromised as a “pause” would requiere many labs to let go people with high level training and expertise. Recovering from such personnel losses takes lots of resources in training and time. Not a smart move!
About a month after Donald Trump took office as the 47th US president, almost all grant-review meetings remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion
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About a month after Donald Trump took office as the 47th US president, almost all grant-review meetings remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion
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BREAKING: Wyoming woman hospitalized after testing positive for H5N1 bird flu, health department says
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First paper of 2025! Postdoc Yanling Yang shows that SLC35A2 modulates paramyxovirus fusion events during infection | PLOS Pathogens
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Author summary Paramyxovirus entry, the first step in establishing an infection, involves two key processes: attachment and virus-cell fusion. Paramyxoviruses use their attachment protein to bind to...
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New paper out! Here Vicky tested our DDO (DVG-derived Oligonucleotide) as a type 1 immunity-inducer adjuvant in mRNA vaccines using influenza NP as a model antigen...works great in mice by stimulating RLRs!
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Are you a guru in RNA or protein biology and looking to expand your horizons into virology? Email me your CV and cover letter to clopezzalaquett@wustl.edu
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New paramyxoviruses! Paper by @geneman930 with a tiny contribution from our lab...let me introduce you to Samak virus!
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Background The discovery of viruses in small mammalian populations, particularly rodents, has expanded the family Paramyxoviridae. The overlap in habitats between rodents and humans increases the...
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And read @italoacastro’s blog telling the story behind this paper:
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My friend and collaborator Shaon Sengupta (Penn/ CHOP in Philadelphia) is looking for postdocs. She does beautiful work on the impact of circadian rhythms in lung inflammation. Check out our collaborative work: https://t.co/F5QYUqd8g9 Apply by emailing Senguptas@chop.edu
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A WashU Medicine mouse study shows that respiratory viruses can hide in lung immune cells after infection, creating inflammation that leads to chronic lung diseases such as asthma.
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Lingering respiratory viruses set the stage for chronic lung disease, mouse study shows
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Paper out! Using the murine parainfluenza virus Sendai, @italoacastro beautifully demonstrates that viral RNA and protein found in innate immune cells long after the acute infection is resolved contribute to chronic lung pathology https://t.co/7Yva2UBzRa
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Yes yes! Apply! Looking for all areas of microbiology, including virology!!
We are HIRING! Our department is looking for MORE THAN ONE Tenure Track Assistant Professors! Come be my colleagues! See detail below. Please consider applying and sharing widely! @WUSM_MolMicro @washumedicine
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Thanks for putting this together! Happy to be included in this (long) list of Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx Scientists | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
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Paper out! Postdoc @matt_hackbart characterized non-standard viral genomes generated during arenavirus infections and identified prominent S RNA intergenic region deletions that can interfere with expression of the LCMV glycoprotein| mBio
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Arenaviruses are hemorrhagic fever-causing pathogens that infect millions of people a year. There are currently no approved antivirals that target arenaviruses, and understanding natural mechanisms...
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SLC35A2 modulates paramyxovirus fusion events during infection https://t.co/9HHZKREzJX
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@jkagan1 A dirty little secret that infected cells are not major source of cytokines - I do like this one from @CBLopezLab that covers defective viral genomes https://t.co/rp6l8e5WE7
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Viruses efficiently block the host antiviral response in order to replicate and spread before host intervention. The mechanism initiating antiviral immunity during stealth viral replication is...
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