Happy birthday Jenn Tran ! Welcome to the lab Lyra Morina! See you next door John Warrington!

Attention, NK enthusiasts! The Miller team‘s latest production, directed by Jake Myers, showcases our TriKE molecule which we hope to present at the SNI NK Meeting! Get ready to be entertained and educated! 🔬🤩🎬 #scienceisFUN

It was wonderful to meet and hear from @WUSTLdbbs alumni!

Thank you DBBS SAC and the WashU Medicine Becker Library Feuerstein wellness grant for rounding out the wonderful health and wellness week with some fun pickleball aka the unofficial sport of WUSTL Immunology students

All-Stars from WUSTL Immunology!!!!! Congrats you all 🥳🥳🥳

🥳The biggest shoutout to our incredible WUSTL Immunology Program Director @GwenRandolph_ ! As a token of appreciation for always going to bat for us, we gift you this bat signed by our trainees. Thank you for being the MVP of our academic journey. You truly hit it out of the park!⚾️

Sending off Patrick Pence to grad school! Thank you for all the fun and and work you contributed to Fehniger Lab!!

Mature human NK cells still need T-box TFs to maintain their function and identity after development!! Thankful for my Fehniger Lab team and several others WUSTL Immunology trainees who were involved. Now official out on the newest issue of Journal of Clinical Investigation : jci.org/articles/view/…

Outstanding work by David Russler-Germain, MD/PhD Kilannin Krysiak and the lymphoma team identifying mutations associated with progression (MAP) in FL, using real-world and clinical trial cohorts Obi Griffith, PhD Malachi Griffith Test Account Siteman Cancer Center @WashUOnc Blood Advances ashpublications.org/bloodadvances/…

Congrats to Miriam Jacobs, MD and @NKtraineePamela for an outstanding pre-clinical study showing memory-like #NKcells attack HNSCC! Combine with mAbs and CAR! Critical to optimize NK therapy for future clinical trials. Siteman Cancer Center Test Account @WashUOnc pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37556118/

So happy to be proud of this team at one point! Couldn’t ask for a better place to train as an undergrad. Started in mito, and still doing mito! Also where I met @NKtraineePamela 🤩

Congratulations to newly minted Dr. Wong!!! @NKtraineePamela is no longer a trainee, but looking for jobs! Fehniger Lab WUSTL Immunology Siteman Cancer Center

New title, New Twitter handle! Thank you Fehniger Lab for getting me here!

Congratulations to PhD student Stephanie Crowley from Jeff Bednarski Lab for receiving the NIH F31 fellowship to support her research on BCLAF1! Stephanie will be celebrating by having chocolate mug cakes after she finishes a flow sort today 🎉

CD8α status identifies human NK cell capacity for IL-15-induced proliferation and metabolism in a time-dependent fashion and exhibits a suppressive effect on NK cell activating receptors Journal of Clinical Investigation Fehniger Lab Celia Cubitt jci.org/articles/view/…

NK-cell therapies are safer than T-cell therapies and offer other advantages but require upgrades to overcome their limited lifespan and susceptibility to immunosuppression nature @ImmYounology nature.com/articles/d4158…

In the mouse, I believe the most NK cell-specific gene is Ly49h. I found its enhancer! Read about my discovery of MAP8 here: nature.com/articles/s4146… Many thanks to Ting Wang, Sytse Piersma , and Wayne Yokoyama for the tremendous support!

Expression of Ly49A alone on a H-2Dd background restored missing-self target cell rejection, NK cell licensing, and NK cell KLRG1 expression, therefore a single inhibitory Ly49 receptor is sufficient to license NK cells Sytse Piersma #Yokoyama doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…