Shira Weingarten-Gabbay
@WeingartenShira
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Assistant Professor of Microbiology at Harvard Medical School @harvardmed Viruses | Immunology | Ribosomes | Systems Biology #LoveVirology
Boston, MA
Joined December 2015
I'm delighted to share that I will be joining the Department of Microbiology at @harvardmed 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 🌟
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🦟 We've just published the world's first head-to-toe single-cell atlas of the Aedes aegypti mosquito in @CellCellPress! The #MosquitoCellAtlas maps 69 cell types across 19 tissues, revealing surprising biology: mosquitoes taste with their legs (more than we thought), glial cells
cell.com
A comprehensive single-nucleus RNA-seq atlas of >367,000 nuclei from male and female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes reveals sexual dimorphism in sensory systems and brain cell types and widespread co-exp...
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What does mating look like when you only have a single shot at getting it right? Very excited to share our work on an almost-invisible female control, rapidly evolving mating recognition systems, and species that break the rules and take over the world. IN MOSQUITOES>
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Congrats @LeahHouri and team! #VosshallLab mosquito sex @biorxivpreprint now out in @CurrentBiology Glowing sperm helps to reveal secrets of mosquito sex
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Tomorrow at the #SystemsVirologyJournalClub Yingpu Yu (@yyp77777) will present his work with Charles Rice (@RiceLaboratory) on the cis preference between HBV polymerase and its transcript. Spoiler alert: it involves #ribosome stalling! 😍 Paper:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a small double-stranded DNA virus that chronically infects 296 million people. Over half of its compact genome encodes proteins in two overlapping reading frames, and...
🚨 Systems Virology Journal Club – 8th Series! 🚨 @wm_schneider 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: https://t.co/TERKeTEijC 🔬✨
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We're proud to share that the Weizmann Institute of Science has been ranked 6th in the world in the 2025 @cwtsleiden Ranking - a jump of four places from the 2024 ranking and our highest position since the ranking was introduced some two decades ago >> https://t.co/YNbQnHGe0S
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Really looking forward to this speaker series, and honored to be a part of it!
🚨 Systems Virology Journal Club – 8th Series! 🚨 @wm_schneider 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: https://t.co/TERKeTEijC 🔬✨
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🚨 Systems Virology Journal Club – 8th Series! 🚨 @wm_schneider 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: https://t.co/TERKeTEijC 🔬✨
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Our immune system really is "an evolutionary masterpiece". So well-deserved recognition for uncovering part of its magic, the peripheral immune tolerance ✨
Our immune system is an evolutionary masterpiece. Every day it protects us from the thousands of different viruses, bacteria and other microbes that attempt to invade our bodies. Without a functioning immune system, we would not survive. One of the immune system’s marvels is its
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Come work with me at UCLA! I’m hiring #postdocs to help us build new tools to detect TB drug resistance using fluorescence microscopy. If you’ve got a PhD (or soon will) in #microbiology or #chemicalbiology (bonus if you’ve worked in BSL3): 👉 Apply:
recruit.apo.ucla.edu
University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!
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This is simply remarkable
Welcome to the age of generative genome design! In 1977, Sanger et al. sequenced the first genome—of phage ΦX174. Today, led by @samuelhking, we report the first AI-generated genomes. Using ΦX174 as a template, we made novel, high-fitness phages with genome language models. 🧵
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Congratulation to all the laureate and finalists and to the brilliant @CicaCanesso @RockefellerUniv 🤩
It's #NPAW2025! Congratulations to the 2025 Blavatnik Regional Awards Laureates and Finalists! https://t.co/izBykGbDzw
@RockefellerUniv @Princeton @PrincetonChem @Rutgers_Newark @NYU @nyugrossman @Columbia @ChemColumbia @VeenaPadmanaban @FlatironCCQ @Shaw_XXie @nationalpostdoc
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Looking forward to a terrific symposium on Synthetic Biology and it's implication in therapeutic development ✨
Excited to chair DOT's SynBio symposium with talks from 🔸Farren Isaacs 🔸Jessica Stark @JessicaCStark 🔸Shira Weingarten-Gabbay @WeingartenShira 🔸Abhishek Chatterjee @AChemSynBio 🔸Wen Tseng @StrandTx 🔸Michael Krogh Jensen @MiKrogh 🔸Ryan Clarke 🔸Alex Reis @alexcampreis
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We're Hiring! Assistant Professor of Immunology and Molecular Medicine in MCB. Learn more and apply online: https://t.co/NxxV17DrWv
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Hiding oncolytic viruses inside bacteria to home in on tumors while dodging antiviral antibodies 🤯Bioengineering at its best. Huge congrats @zsinger and team on this brilliant work!
New publication out today in @natBME 🎉led by @zsinger JPabon demonstrating engineered bacteria launch and control a virus. A very cool cooperative microbial strategy for cancer therapy. Congrats to all! in collab with @RiceLaboratory
https://t.co/F8DfJvwKs9
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Job posting for a tenure-track Assist Prof in our department @ColumbiaSysBio
https://t.co/LyGmtkOzyH
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Post a job in 3min, or find thousands of job offers like this one at jobRxiv!
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Huge congrats @ReillyLikesIt 2025 Pew scholar!! So well deserved 🤩 https://t.co/TH3Jb2XDMv
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Pew has a decades-long commitment to support groundbreaking research by promising early-career biomedical scientists in the United States and Latin America. Our multiyear grants encourage informed...
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Calling all early-career virologists. Apply to JVI's New Voices in Virology and get your minireview published in JVI's minireview collection! See https://t.co/0IkgXCfQ3E
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Super interesting insights on the evolutionary constrains on synonymous codons 🤩 "Our results suggest that cotranslational localization and translational accuracy, more than cotranslational protein folding, are major drivers of selective pressure on codon choice in eukaryotes."
This preprint from Helen Sakharova is one of the coolest things to come out of my lab: “Protein language models reveal evolutionary constraints on synonymous codon choice.” Codon choice is a big puzzle in genome information, and we have a new angle.
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Excited to share our new @NatureMicrobiol paper revealing the most complete arenavirus glycoprotein complex (GPC) structures to date 🤩@TheColinMann @HarvardMicro @VirologyHarvard
nature.com
Nature Microbiology - Cryo-EM structures of the full-length Junin virus and Machupo virus spike glycoprotein complexes stabilized in the prefusion conformation. Analyses reveal features that...
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