Congratulations to our PhD student for their recents awards! 🥳 Emily Feng was awarded a CSI Travel Award and the MIRC Travel Award! Ana Portillo was awarded the W.E. Rawls Memorial Scholarship and the Alyssa Vito Scholarship in Cancer Research! 👏

Long Presentation Winners: 1st place: Liam Rondeau 2nd place: Ana Portillo 3rd place: Ann Kuganathan

Excited to share my very first publication! Thanks Maz for giving me the chance to write about innate immune memory- a new concept to us, but an ancient phenomenon.

We are super proud to announce that three of our students have been awarded external awards! 👏 Congrats to Amelia and Alexa for winning CGS-M awards! Congrats to Misaal for wining an OGS award to support the second year of her MSc!

Enjoying the slopes before some science! See you at #CSI2024 Canadian Society for Immunology

Congrats to our PhD candidates for their poster awards at this years #CSI2024 Ana Portillo Emily Feng and Liz Balint for her first place poster award! McMaster Immunology

Our PhD students were awarded McMaster Health Sciences Plenary Awards! Congratulations to Emily Feng for an Outstanding Achievement Award and to Liz Balint and Ana Portillo for Publication Awards!

Check out the latest issue of Immunological Reviews on innate immunity (with an adaptive twist!) where Josefowicz Lab and I convinced a bunch of talented colleagues to contribute. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1600065x/2…

Why does covalency matter? Here we develop a new covalent #inducedproximity system that activates T cell tumoricidal function through stabilized ternary complexes. Covalency is observed to uniquely enforce immune receptor activation signaling events! doi.org/10.1016/j.omto…

Enjoying #Cytokines2024 and explore the beautiful city of Seoul! Liz Balint Emily Feng Ana Portillo

While CD56 expression could be used to indicate a hyper-functional state of NK cells, it does not directly influence the anti-tumor functions of expanded NK cells Journal of Leukocyte Biology Congrats, Ana Portillo! Ashkar Lab doi.org/10.1093/jleuko…

Another year, another victory! Ashkar lab wins best Halloween costume for the fifth year in a row 🎃🎃

Join us next Thursday for visiting speaker Dr. Ali Ashkar from McMaster University. Interferon Types and Time Matter is the discussion topic. Ashkar Lab U of M Rady Faculty uManitoba Research

More people are turning to cannabidiol (CBD) cannabis strains to help with the side-effects of pregnancy. A new study from McMaster University has uncovered the potential risks, which includes impaired fetal growth. Centre for Medicinal Cannabis Research CIHR CFI / FCI ow.ly/BLHM50UV44z