Exciting morning. 3 years ago, Felix Feng invited me to co-mentor a postdoc. That amazing scientist, Lisa Chesner, PhD, is doing a screen today we’ve been dreaming up for a while! 100 plates harvested and another 100 to go. Collaborative science is so fun! Thanks, Felix Feng!

This is sure to be an incredible meeting in a beautiful location!! Amy Moran Lab will be there. Will you join us?!

Thank you ⁦Luis B Barreiro⁩ for spending the day with us ⁦OHSU Knight Cancer Institute⁩. Fascinating work of human genetics, ancestry, and immunobiology. How often does cancer mimic evolutionary selective pressures? Deep thoughts!

I’m honoring the space in-between this evening. In-between life and death. Love in the flesh and love in memory. Pancreatic cancer is a beast and our family Nana has been brave. Sacred space it is to live with the dying.

This game needs a PNW update. Tree falls on your house, pay the bank. Burst pipe, pay the bank. Schools open again, you’ve won the lottery!! #tryingtostaysane

Thank you, The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research for supporting this research. We have so much to learn and your support is invaluable as we dissect sex hormones and immunobiology! #letsgomoranocytes !
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This review!!! Thank you Sabra Klein Lab Sabra Klein for this wonderful, thoughtful, and complete review!! I’ll be using some of these figures alongside many of your other amazing figures in my upcoming talks!

CONGRATULATIONS, MONICA!! It's about time we confirmed a female to lead the NIH!! Dr. Kimryn Rathmell

Senate confirms NIH Director Monica Bertagnolli statnews.com/2023/11/07/nih… via STAT

Thank you Carl June for the shoutout today Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer #SITC2023 ! We look forward to seeing how targeting AR can improve CART for mCRPC! OHSU Knight Cancer Institute Jessica Hawley MD MS

THIS!!! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼Dr. Bertagnolli will be the first confirmed female NIH leader! DO THIS!!

Who wants to go to Ireland and discuss Sex Differences in Immunity? ME!!! And a few other Moranocytes!

Happy Halloween from Doc and Dopey. Sneezy, Bashful, Grumpy, Sleepy, and Happy are looking for Snow White!

Angela Koehler “if there’s a religion in our lab, we start with binding!” What a pleasure to have you visit OHSU today! Oregon roots are creative and strong :-)

This is a beautiful obituary to a world class immunologist. I read so much of his work as a student b/c it was technically superb and so creative.
Albert Bendelac (1956-2023): Immunity cell.com/immunity/fullt…

The new COVID booster and insomnia . . .what's the deal? 4 out of 4 in my lab who received the booster yesterday experienced insomnia last night. wearables on 1 indicated elevated HR (relative to other nights) all night. Who else had this experience?

The Moran Lab is celebrating the birth of a few babies from original Moranocytes!! A graduated PhD student welcomed twins & my 1st postdoc, a daughter . .all in < 3wks. I love this part of the mentoring; mentoring into parenthood as a scientist! congratulations Chaojie & Breanna!

Very excited that our PaxLC clinical trial on #longCOVID patients is now open, led by Harlan Krumholz! This is a phase 2, 1:1 randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled research study in 100 non-hospitalized highly symptomatic long COVID. (1/)

clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05…

I've returned to a land of cell service and wifi and email and professional work. Spent 14 days on an island, 11 of them in a tent = fresh air 24/7. I cannot explain the power of fresh air! Today is hard 🌲🌊⛴️

I think I've hit some sort of calendar fatigue! I've stopped looking at my calendar and just started doing the work that's on my mind 🤯 And it's a weird sort of 🤷🏼‍♀️. Must be a sign to leave the calendar and go renew!

I’ve been on vacation for the past week. I thought I’d let the lab know I’m Gnome! I’m so fortunate to work with this awesome group! ⁦OHSU Knight Cancer Institute⁩