Super excited and proud to announce the FIRST EVER paper from the Joglekar lab!! Nature Methods
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Huge kudos to PMI student Paul Zdinak Pitt Micro/Immuno University of Pittsburgh for this work!

Here, we have expanded our antigen discovery platform to Class II MHC/HLA !
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Congratulations to poster winners Amanda & Colin Marlies Meisel and Luzmariel Medina Sanchez my lab for a great talk! Great showcase of exciting Immunology research at this years TTT retreat happening University of Pittsburgh

Congratulations to Ariadna Soto receiving the 2024 AAI Intersect fellowship and amazing Co-PI mentor Jishnu Das to study protist immune interactions. Also congrats to Elaine Kouame PhD (she/her) ;Laura Rachel Gottschalk and others #ProudPI #WomenInScience
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I am very happy to report that the years of work we put into studying the ecology and evolution of a single cryptic human gut plasmid is now nicely summarized in a paper that just appeared in Cell:

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Here is a 🧵 to cover some take home messages.

Thank you UMN Integrative Biology & Physiology and Hai-Bin Ruan 阮海斌 for hosting me to present my research. I had a great time learning all about the fantastic research going on at UMN Integrative Biology & Physiology and looking forward to future collaborations

Study host-microbe interactions in sunny San Diego, CA! Fully-funded postdoc opportunity in the Constantinides Lab Constantinides Lab Scripps Research. Please RT!

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Pleased to share the current view and future directions of the #microbiome in #melanoma Cancer Cell A result of an exciting and inspiring workshop with some of the leaders and #trailblazers in the #microbiota #cancer field authors.elsevier.com/c/1iKi15TA51db…

Online now: Albert Bendelac (1956-2023) dlvr.it/Sxr3xV

Enjoying the cytokine conference in beautiful Athens #cytokines2023 Thanks again International Cytokine & Interferon Society (ICIS) for the ICIS YI Award. Looking forward to talk about the antitumor potential of #diet and #probiotics in #cancer

Thankful for having the opportunity to present my work from the Reinhard Hinterleitner at the Keystone Symposia🪱🦠
#WomenInSTEM #microbiome #protist

I am so thankful to have been awarded the Ascina Award for young principal investigators. This award really means a lot to me as a scientist and as an Austrian.
#diet #probiotics #cancerimmunotherapy

Fantastic tall by Alex McPherson, PhD in my lab about the #tumormicrobiome #dietand #cancer at this years Immunology retreat #PittIMM23

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Are you interested in advancing the understanding of #IBD ? We’re accepting applications for our Innovator Awards through September 30.

Grants of up to $150K support individual research projects and grants of up to $300K support collaborative projects. buff.ly/44y4HVU

Plasma membrane repair empowers the necrotic survivors as innate immun... sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Check our recent review article about plasma membrane repair. Great collaborations with Suhong Xu lab!!

We are happy to share a detailed step-by-step protocol published in STAR Protocols to define the low abundant #tumormicrobiome of extra-intestinal #melanoma tumors using #culturomics star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/2919

Today we report a detailed map of interactions between the immune system and the gut microbiome. Kaz (Kazuki) Nagashima led the charge w/ help from Aishan Zhao and Kat Atabakhsh. nature 1/40
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Protists protecting food tolerance #immunology dlvr.it/SthtR8