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Why does Johns Hopkins entomologist Chris Kizito oversee the production of 2.6 million mosquitoes a year? His work is part of the Malaria Research Institute's efforts to knock out #malaria in countries like Kizito's native Uganda. youtu.be/xarI2UFGUAg?si…

Nicole Baumgarth Nicole Baumgarth, DVM PHD, DVM, PhD, Director of the Johns Hopkins University Lyme and Tickborne Diseases Research and Education Institute & a Bloomberg Distinguished Professors, comments on #babesiosis--the tickborne disease spread primarily by bites from black-legged (deer) ticks. newsweek.com/experts-warn-s…

1/5 The lab’s first paper on bovine H5N1 looks at preexisting antibody immunity in the human population and how influenza vaccination and infection effect it. Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at JHSPH and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

2/5 While there is little H5 HA binding or neutralizing antibody responses, there is a significant amount of antibodies that recognize bovine N1 NA and that inhibit NA enzymatic activity.

3/5 The N1 NA crossreactive antibodies are boosted after seasonal influenza H1N1 infection, but not by H3N2 infection or seasonal influenza vaccination. Of course, we don’t know how these crossreactive NA antibodies modulate H5N1 disease...

4/5 but it may indicate that boosting NA antibodies might be a faster way to induce human population immunity to bovine H5N1. Several other studies have indicated similar things.

5/5 This work was driven by PhD student Annie Werner, in collaboration with Dr. Lynda Coughlan 🔬 and Cosette Schneider from the University of Maryland with help from Elgin Akin

Experts warn that NIH funding cuts could usher in a “dark age” for autoimmune disease research—research that holds the potential to improve and save lives through innovative cellular therapies for lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and related conditions. hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/24/nih…

Virologist and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Professor Andrew Pekosz comments on NIH pauses to U.S. funded research “There doesn’t seem to be a risk-benefit analysis or understanding that things like this are going on in the real world,” Pekosz says. science.org/content/articl…

MMI's Postdoc Summer Research Forum will conclude July 28. If you have not been able to attend and learn about our Postdoc's research, considering attending. There are 2 forums remaining - July 21 & July 28. Monday, July 21 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Room W2008

It's the season of the (s)ticks. As warm weather has arrived across much of the U.S., and that means more hikes, outdoor fun, and concerns about ticks. Here's what you need to know about tick season ➡️

TODAY's Postdoc Summer Research Forum features Houhong Zhang, PhD, of the Dimopoulos Lab and Shilpa Sachan, PhD, of the Baumgarth Lab Monday, July 21 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 12:00Noon - 1:00 p.m. Room W2008 #PlasmodiumFalciparum #BorreliaBurgdorferi

Thank you to this week's Postdoc Summer Research Forum presenters - Houhong Zhang, PhD, and Shilpa Sachan, PhD, for their interesting and engaging presentations. Thank you also to all who came out! Both Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at JHSPH Postdoctoral Fellow presentations were well attended!

MMI PhD Candidate Jerome Edwards will defend his PhD thesis Monday, July 28 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health #measles #vaccines #PhDDefense #dissertation

New #research in Nature Communications from Carlton Lab reveals how a parasite behind one of the world’s most common STIs may have evolved from bird-infecting ancestors to infecting humans. Using genomic comparisons, scientists identified genes likely involved: bit.ly/3H3ImKf

TODAY's Postdoc Summer Research Forum features Caire Barreto, PhD, of the Dimopoulos Lab and Murilo Ramos Rocha of the Weeraratna Lab Ashi_W Monday, July 28 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 12:00Noon - 1:00 p.m. Room W2008

Thank you to this week's Postdoc Summer Research Forum presenters -- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Postdoctoral Fellows Caire Barreto, PhD, of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at JHSPH Dimopoulos Lab and Murilo Ramos Rocha, PhD, of Johns Hopkins BMB Weeraratna Lab Ashi_W!

Congratulations to Jerome Edwards on defending his PhD thesis on mechanisms driving the attenuation of Live attenuated measles vaccine virus replication. Jerome did great things and is yet another example of Diane Griffin's mentoring. Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at JHSPH Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health