Giuditta De Lorenzo
@serdelor.bsky.social
Italian virologist, studying viruses and cells at AreaSciencePark and ICGEB (Trieste - IT), previously Research Associate at the Centre for Virus Research (Glasgow - UK)
https://areasciencepark-rit.gitlab.io/virology/giuditta.delorenzo/#about
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Giuditta De Lorenzo
@serdelor.bsky.social
· Jul 30
AI in Virology: Leveraging AI to Advance Our Understanding of Viruses - Area Science Park
Artificial intelligence is opening new perspectives in virus research, providing advanced tools to analyze viral evolution and to understand protein structure and dynamics on a large scale. To explore...
www.areasciencepark.it
🧬 Excited to share our International Workshop: AI in Virology
📆 Sept 9, 2025 - Trieste, Italy
@AreaSciencePark
We’ll explore how #AI is transforming virology — from protein language models to vaccine design and biosecurity.
🔗 Program & details: www.areasciencepark.it/en/events/ai...
📆 Sept 9, 2025 - Trieste, Italy
@AreaSciencePark
We’ll explore how #AI is transforming virology — from protein language models to vaccine design and biosecurity.
🔗 Program & details: www.areasciencepark.it/en/events/ai...
Counting down the days! 🦟 We can’t wait to welcome Maria Vittoria Mancini to Trieste! 💨🌊 She’ll be giving a seminar on "Mosquitoes in context: symbionts, pathogens and environmental drivers of vector-borne disease risk." www.areasciencepark.it/en/scientifi...
Mosquitoes in context: symbionts, pathogens and environmental drivers of vector-borne disease risk - Area Science Park
Mosquito-borne diseases emerge from a complex interplay between vectors, pathogens, associated microorganisms and the environment. Understanding how these components interact is becoming increasingly ...
www.areasciencepark.it
October 5, 2026 at 7:19 AM
Counting down the days! 🦟 We can’t wait to welcome Maria Vittoria Mancini to Trieste! 💨🌊 She’ll be giving a seminar on "Mosquitoes in context: symbionts, pathogens and environmental drivers of vector-borne disease risk." www.areasciencepark.it/en/scientifi...
Great opportunity!
🚨 JOB ALERT🚨
We are very excited to be hiring the lab's ✨very first postdoc✨!
Work on new AI technologies for decoding antigen protein evolution in a fresh research environment, at the heart of Paris 🇫🇷
Details & link to apply: research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...
Deadline: Sep 1st
We are very excited to be hiring the lab's ✨very first postdoc✨!
Work on new AI technologies for decoding antigen protein evolution in a fresh research environment, at the heart of Paris 🇫🇷
Details & link to apply: research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...
Deadline: Sep 1st
August 4, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Great opportunity!
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Excited to announce our pre-print on the detection of PPI interfaces using ESM3!!! Big thanks to the very young and talented authors www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org
June 10, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Excited to announce our pre-print on the detection of PPI interfaces using ESM3!!! Big thanks to the very young and talented authors www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Fifth and final @cvrinfo.bsky.social talk at ViBioM 2026. @ulad-litvin.bsky.social presenting viro3d.cvr.gla.ac.uk and other applications of alphafold in virology.
May 19, 2026 at 6:22 AM
Fifth and final @cvrinfo.bsky.social talk at ViBioM 2026. @ulad-litvin.bsky.social presenting viro3d.cvr.gla.ac.uk and other applications of alphafold in virology.
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Version 7. Best effort made to assign a case number for 9-11 (10 described as an inconclusive positive due to POS/NEG test results).
Until an authority like @who.int defines the order, I'm charting my own path.
Until an authority like @who.int defines the order, I'm charting my own path.
May 14, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Version 7. Best effort made to assign a case number for 9-11 (10 described as an inconclusive positive due to POS/NEG test results).
Until an authority like @who.int defines the order, I'm charting my own path.
Until an authority like @who.int defines the order, I'm charting my own path.
The Virology Group at AreaSciencePark
(Trieste, Italy) is looking for ambitious researchers to co-develop a joint MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship proposal 1/2
Details here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting...
#MSCAPF #PostdocJobs #Virology #HorizonEU
(Trieste, Italy) is looking for ambitious researchers to co-develop a joint MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship proposal 1/2
Details here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting...
#MSCAPF #PostdocJobs #Virology #HorizonEU
MSCA POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS AT AREA SCIENCE PARK – VIROLOGY GROUP
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
May 11, 2026 at 11:39 AM
The Virology Group at AreaSciencePark
(Trieste, Italy) is looking for ambitious researchers to co-develop a joint MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship proposal 1/2
Details here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting...
#MSCAPF #PostdocJobs #Virology #HorizonEU
(Trieste, Italy) is looking for ambitious researchers to co-develop a joint MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship proposal 1/2
Details here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting...
#MSCAPF #PostdocJobs #Virology #HorizonEU
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A little summary of some events.
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May 11, 2026 at 6:38 AM
A little summary of some events.
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Join our young, dynamic team in beautiful, windy Trieste!
We are looking for a motivated PhD student to work on neutralizing antibodies, vaccines, and antiviral peptides.
We aim to combine wet-lab expertise👨🔬with computational modeling👩💻to drive innovation in viral intervention
We are looking for a motivated PhD student to work on neutralizing antibodies, vaccines, and antiviral peptides.
We aim to combine wet-lab expertise👨🔬with computational modeling👩💻to drive innovation in viral intervention
April 24, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Join our young, dynamic team in beautiful, windy Trieste!
We are looking for a motivated PhD student to work on neutralizing antibodies, vaccines, and antiviral peptides.
We aim to combine wet-lab expertise👨🔬with computational modeling👩💻to drive innovation in viral intervention
We are looking for a motivated PhD student to work on neutralizing antibodies, vaccines, and antiviral peptides.
We aim to combine wet-lab expertise👨🔬with computational modeling👩💻to drive innovation in viral intervention
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Excited to advertise a fully funded PhD with @socialinfluenza.bsky.social investigating how influenza virus evolution differs between different avian hosts (and how this impacts pandemic potential). Joint between @pirbrightinst.bsky.social + @cvrinfo.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
FULLY FUNDED PhD - Visualising avian influenza virus tropism and co-infection in avian hosts at University of Glasgow on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - FULLY FUNDED PhD - Visualising avian influenza virus tropism and co-infection in avian hosts at University of Glasgow, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
April 14, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Excited to advertise a fully funded PhD with @socialinfluenza.bsky.social investigating how influenza virus evolution differs between different avian hosts (and how this impacts pandemic potential). Joint between @pirbrightinst.bsky.social + @cvrinfo.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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October 31, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Our preprint, in collaboration with Rino Rappuoli & Emanuele Andreano, is out! Co-led by colleagues at TLS, my grad student Ling Zhou @lingzhou.bsky.social, and postdoc Emily Rundlet @cryoemily.bsky.social, we identified OPG153 as a poxvirus bnAb target via B cell isolation & AlphaFold3 prediction.
August 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Our preprint, in collaboration with Rino Rappuoli & Emanuele Andreano, is out! Co-led by colleagues at TLS, my grad student Ling Zhou @lingzhou.bsky.social, and postdoc Emily Rundlet @cryoemily.bsky.social, we identified OPG153 as a poxvirus bnAb target via B cell isolation & AlphaFold3 prediction.
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Congrats to @summabibby.bsky.social @naphakm.bsky.social Daniel Watterson et al. here at SCMB on the first high-res cryo-EM structures of yellow fever virus! Striking vaccine vs virulent particle differences and a single R380 residue shaping antigenicity & neutralisation. doi.org/10.1038/s414...
September 27, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Congrats to @summabibby.bsky.social @naphakm.bsky.social Daniel Watterson et al. here at SCMB on the first high-res cryo-EM structures of yellow fever virus! Striking vaccine vs virulent particle differences and a single R380 residue shaping antigenicity & neutralisation. doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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New exciting resource published!! The Viro3D paper is out, describing our comprehensive database of predicted virus protein structures! 💻🧬
Work with @ulad-litvin.bsky.social , @grovearmada.bsky.social , Alex Jack, @bljog.bsky.social , @davidlrobertson.bsky.social
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
Work with @ulad-litvin.bsky.social , @grovearmada.bsky.social , Alex Jack, @bljog.bsky.social , @davidlrobertson.bsky.social
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
Viro3D: a comprehensive database of virus protein structure predictions | Molecular Systems Biology
imageimageViro3D provides proteome-level, high confidence AI-protein structure predictions for
>4,400 viruses, allowing mapping of form and function across the human and animal
virosphere. Viro3D i...
www.embopress.org
September 28, 2025 at 5:39 AM
New exciting resource published!! The Viro3D paper is out, describing our comprehensive database of predicted virus protein structures! 💻🧬
Work with @ulad-litvin.bsky.social , @grovearmada.bsky.social , Alex Jack, @bljog.bsky.social , @davidlrobertson.bsky.social
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
Work with @ulad-litvin.bsky.social , @grovearmada.bsky.social , Alex Jack, @bljog.bsky.social , @davidlrobertson.bsky.social
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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Our first post on here and it's a doozy 😍🤩. Our epic piece on #sarbecovirus host range. #virology #sars2 #covid #vaccines. Enjoy and please repost. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Understanding the future risk of bat coronavirus spillover into humans: correlating sarbecovirus receptor usage, host range, and antigenicity.
Sarbecoviruses interact with their receptor, angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), via the receptor binding domain (RBD) of Spike, the immunodominant target for neutralising antibodies. Understandin...
www.biorxiv.org
September 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Our first post on here and it's a doozy 😍🤩. Our epic piece on #sarbecovirus host range. #virology #sars2 #covid #vaccines. Enjoy and please repost. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Repost appreciated:
Open #PhDposition in structural virology in my group! Join us in Umeå, Sweden to uncover how arboviruses remodel infected cells. In situ #cryoET and #cryoEM combined with #virology, #cellbiology, and #biophysics.
Deadline 7 September. More info: www.carlsonlab.se/join/
Open #PhDposition in structural virology in my group! Join us in Umeå, Sweden to uncover how arboviruses remodel infected cells. In situ #cryoET and #cryoEM combined with #virology, #cellbiology, and #biophysics.
Deadline 7 September. More info: www.carlsonlab.se/join/
August 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Repost appreciated:
Open #PhDposition in structural virology in my group! Join us in Umeå, Sweden to uncover how arboviruses remodel infected cells. In situ #cryoET and #cryoEM combined with #virology, #cellbiology, and #biophysics.
Deadline 7 September. More info: www.carlsonlab.se/join/
Open #PhDposition in structural virology in my group! Join us in Umeå, Sweden to uncover how arboviruses remodel infected cells. In situ #cryoET and #cryoEM combined with #virology, #cellbiology, and #biophysics.
Deadline 7 September. More info: www.carlsonlab.se/join/
🧬 Excited to share our International Workshop: AI in Virology
📆 Sept 9, 2025 - Trieste, Italy
@AreaSciencePark
We’ll explore how #AI is transforming virology — from protein language models to vaccine design and biosecurity.
🔗 Program & details: www.areasciencepark.it/en/events/ai...
📆 Sept 9, 2025 - Trieste, Italy
@AreaSciencePark
We’ll explore how #AI is transforming virology — from protein language models to vaccine design and biosecurity.
🔗 Program & details: www.areasciencepark.it/en/events/ai...
AI in Virology: Leveraging AI to Advance Our Understanding of Viruses - Area Science Park
Artificial intelligence is opening new perspectives in virus research, providing advanced tools to analyze viral evolution and to understand protein structure and dynamics on a large scale. To explore...
www.areasciencepark.it
July 30, 2025 at 7:07 AM
🧬 Excited to share our International Workshop: AI in Virology
📆 Sept 9, 2025 - Trieste, Italy
@AreaSciencePark
We’ll explore how #AI is transforming virology — from protein language models to vaccine design and biosecurity.
🔗 Program & details: www.areasciencepark.it/en/events/ai...
📆 Sept 9, 2025 - Trieste, Italy
@AreaSciencePark
We’ll explore how #AI is transforming virology — from protein language models to vaccine design and biosecurity.
🔗 Program & details: www.areasciencepark.it/en/events/ai...
Proud moment: PhD student Beatrice Pani presented her very first poster at our Summer retreat! 😎 #AcademicLife #PhDJourney #MentorProud
July 30, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Proud moment: PhD student Beatrice Pani presented her very first poster at our Summer retreat! 😎 #AcademicLife #PhDJourney #MentorProud
April 28, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Always enjoyable and informative to listen to @peacockflu.bsky.social #microbio25
April 3, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Always enjoyable and informative to listen to @peacockflu.bsky.social #microbio25
Once again, @wfurnon.bsky.social has very nicely delivered our study about the phenotypic evolution of SARS-CoV-2 spike. Well done mate! #microbio25
April 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Once again, @wfurnon.bsky.social has very nicely delivered our study about the phenotypic evolution of SARS-CoV-2 spike. Well done mate! #microbio25
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The thing I need people to understand about the lab leak conspiracy is that, aside from the fact that there is no compelling evidence for a laboratory origin for SARS-CoV-2, the constant advancement of this idea is used for nefarious political purposes. In particular,…
March 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The thing I need people to understand about the lab leak conspiracy is that, aside from the fact that there is no compelling evidence for a laboratory origin for SARS-CoV-2, the constant advancement of this idea is used for nefarious political purposes. In particular,…
So excited to hear the seminar of old friend and @icgeb.bsky.social alumni, Alessio Guglielmi, who started a career in forensic after his PhD.
January 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
So excited to hear the seminar of old friend and @icgeb.bsky.social alumni, Alessio Guglielmi, who started a career in forensic after his PhD.
It is finally out, our beautiful work 😍
You have never seen so many Spike at once 😎
But the best thing has been working elbow to elbow with my best pal, @wfurnon.bsky.social
You have never seen so many Spike at once 😎
But the best thing has been working elbow to elbow with my best pal, @wfurnon.bsky.social
🚨🔔 Delighted to see this piece of work from @cvrinfo.bsky.social now out in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social ! Indeed, it really reflects what multidisciplinary team effort can be. Guess what? Spike of #SARSCoV2 is not just about antigenicity/immune evasion… doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Phenotypic evolution of SARS-CoV-2 spike during the COVID-19 pandemic - Nature Microbiology
Systematic comparison of SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins from pre- and post-Omicron variants in cell lines, primary respiratory epithelial cells and Syrian hamsters show distinct phenotypic trajectories in ...
doi.org
January 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
It is finally out, our beautiful work 😍
You have never seen so many Spike at once 😎
But the best thing has been working elbow to elbow with my best pal, @wfurnon.bsky.social
You have never seen so many Spike at once 😎
But the best thing has been working elbow to elbow with my best pal, @wfurnon.bsky.social