@dirasputri

• MICaB PhD candidate at @umnmedschool in the @langloislab • 🇮🇩 • she/her/hers

 Minneapolis, MN
Joined May 2009
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We are hiring a technician and/or postdoc! If you're interested studying how viral infection during pregnancy affects placental function and fetal development, please reach out! Will be at IFPA '23 and would love to talk then. Feel free to DM!
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As a non-native English speaker, the hardest part is to convey my ideas in a concrete and concise manner! But I’m fortunate to have a supportive lab & supervisor to guide me through the process 🙂
Tatsuya Amano@tatsuya_amano18 Jul 2023
How hard is it to do science in a language that’s not your first language? We quantified the severity of #languagebarriers for non-native English speakers when reading/publishing papers and attending/presenting at international conferences. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio… 1/9
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Great talk today @Minnesotaimv symposium by Dira Putri, former member of Department of Pediatrics @umnpeds and now terrific UMN graduate student studying Murine Kobuvirus, interesting model of picornavirus infection.
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IT'S THE POST YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR: UMN GRADUATE WORKERS HAVE A UNION! We won 2487 yes votes to 70 no- that's 97% in favor of a union! The hard work of countless graduate workers pays off!
UMN Graduate Labor Union logo

ALT UMN Graduate Labor Union logo

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Dira Putri retweeted
MPR News@MPRnews28 Jan 2023
BREAKING: The Minnesota Senate has passed the PRO Act, which would guarantee a right to abortion into state law pending Gov. Walz's expected signature. Even if a future court reverses guarantees abortion access, services would be protected. mprnews.org/story/2023/01/28…

Minnesota Senate votes to guarantee abortion rights, sends bill to governor

The bill would also extend the right to reproductive health options such as birth control and family planning and would bar local governments from enacting policies that infringe on those rights.

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Langlois Lab and company had a blast at Wisc-e-sota 2022 🤓 @LangloisLab @TristanTNeal @AFranOfScience @JordanBeckerPhD @dirasputri @sofianmoraes @deepCdiver94 @alisonjune123 – at La Crosse, WI
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Can’t wait for the next #KSRespiratoryVirus22! made new connections and seriously can’t wait to hear more science next time
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I don’t usually get home sick but dang I haven’t seen my parents in 4 years nor spent the holidays with them ever since I moved to the US 10 years ago #COVIDsucks
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Playing dirty with virus transmission. @ChristinHerrma1 and @CadwellLab highlight study (bit.ly/3sYrE5P) by @lizfay20,@keirballa, @ShanleyRoach, @AFranOfScience, @LangloisLab and colleagues. bit.ly/3FURife #InfectiousDisease #HostDefense
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Thrilled to share our paper led by @lizfay20, @keirballa, @keirballa, @AFranOfScience out in @JExpMed using ‘dirty’ rodents as bridge between natural and laboratory settings to study within- and cross-species virus transmission. rupress.org/jem/article-abst… 1/5
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SE Asians are underrepresented in STEM. The label 'Asian' boxes them out more. @UCSF disaggregates data to better reflect URM groups, but it needs to be more common. One challenge with being from an under-acknowledged URM group? Many don’t even know… npr.org/2021/12/12/105493351…

Southeast Asians are underrepresented in STEM. The label 'Asian' boxes them out more

The way data on racial groups is typically collected in the U.S. has sidelined smaller Asian populations like Hmong, Lao and Filipino Americans for decades. Now, there are growing calls for change.

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The Indonesian army has ended a controversial practice of virginity tests on women who apply to become cadets, according to its chief of staff, a move welcomed by activists who have long campaigned against it. cnn.it/2XmnBlW
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Happy 4th! Next year I’ll be celebrating as an American citizen but in the mean time, I’ll learn more about the US history from other perspectives
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New work from our team exploring how cytomegalovirus #CMV infection affects placental function online now! 1/7 frontiersin.org/articles/10.…

Frontiers | The Placental Response to Guinea Pig Cytomegalovirus Depends Upon the Timing of...

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infects the placenta, and these placental infections can cause fetal injury and/or demise. The timing of maternal HCMV infection...

frontiersin.org
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Look at these baby scientists (circa 2014) @TTdevbio. Gained a lot of virology skills and best friends along the way!
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Got my 2nd dose of #Pfizer yesterday 🥳 but now trying to ride the fever, chills, and body aches by watching my favorite sick day movie- Ferris Bueller’s Day Off!
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I’m so looking forward to the day I take my oath as a naturalized citizen and actually be proud of this country #Inauguration2021
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Come on Minnesota, it’s way too early for me to start complaining about the cold
Excited to share our new story co led by @lizfay20 and Steph Aron: journals.plos.org/plospathog… We built a single cycle flu lacking the gene for one of the polymerase segments, PB1. This virus is grown in a PB1 complementing cell line and can only undergo primary transcription (1)

Cell type- and replication stage-specific influenza virus responses in vivo

Author summary Influenza A virus (IAV) is a respiratory virus that can infect multiple cell types in the lung. It is not known how individual cell types contribute to the innate immune response....

journals.plos.org
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JUST IN: The Trump administration is rescinding its directive issued last week that would have barred international college students from the U.S. if their school opted for an online-only model in the fall semester.
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