Starting off the first Journal Club meeting in the Arnon Lab with João Bonifacio Lopes presenting a recent publication by Matthew D. Park, Ph.D. from Miriam Merad, MD, PhD Group! Brilliant science published in Nature Immunology 📝

"The first 'recipes' for intestinal microbiome transfer date back to 4th Century China and were used as a cure for severe food poisoning!" Thanks Kennedy researchers for sharing your favourite #microbiome facts for #WorldMicrobiomeDay! World Microbiome Day #Microbiomes4Life #WMD2023

Celebrating World Microbiome day at Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology with puzzles and amazing bakes! Big shout to the Cold Room horrors cheesecakes 🍰🦠😋 #WMD2023 #scicomm World Microbiome Day

We had a lovely sunny afternoon at the Kennedy Institute Summer Picnic on Friday! ☀️ Thanks to everyone who joined us, and to those who brought their families, children, and some VERY good dogs!

#tbt to our PhD student Sophia Oram presenting her findings at # in Sardinia! Exciting news about #PLTs in the #Spleen coming out soon! Well done Sophia!

On top of a great presentation by #joannahfergusson on responses to adjuvants in human lymph node cultures, the bonus perk about Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology internal seminars: pizza! 🍕

🥇 Journal club of 2024, 🥇pre-print in feat. Arnon’s Journal club +🥇Journal club of our new post-doc nelaklim !🥳 fantastic concept on how a transcription factor can modulate B cells ‘recallability’ to antigen tinyurl.com/ywa2neb3

It was great pleasure to give a talk in such an amazing environment! Thanks Tal Arnon for inviting me and giving me a chance to share our work. And thanks so much to the IT that quickly solved the technical problems!

It’s out!! Great story started by Andrew MacLean in which I had the chance to contribute and finish during my first year in Arnon Lab

#LocationLocationLocation & #Interferons! Arnon Lab Tal Arnon &co show JExpMed that upon secondary influenza infections, #NKcell IFNg recruits tissue #memoryBcells to the infection focus where innate stimuli drive antibodies independently of #CD4T! hubs.la/Q02v2lwR0

This one is definitely a ‘Phage’ turner! Ollie Harrison lab used phage display screening to identify antigen-specific BCRs in mLN and PPs & used tetramer stain to track these cells! A much-needed advance in the field to fish specific B cell clones and study them in depth #Immunity

Kicking off summer Journal club meetings discussing a recent publication by Becattini lab! “Local antigen encounter promotes generation of tissue-resident memory T cells in the large intestine” Mucosal Immunology mucosalimmunology.org/article/S1933-…

Our July issue is out! hubs.la/Q02DjcvH0 The image shows thick sections of lungs of BAT mice reinfected with influenza and depleted for CD4+ T cells, showing the positioning of alveoli-associated plasma cells. By MacLean et al. Arnon Lab (hubs.la/Q02Djcxq0).

Our image of a flu-infected mouse lung from our latest publication made it to JExpMed cover! Take a look at this thread by João Bonifacio Lopes if curious about our main findings #residentmemory #flu #Bcells

For this week’s journal club we went rogue and sat in a nice Italian cafe! And guess what? Anti-PD-1 therapy doesn't just target tumors! It also boosts T cell responses in lymph nodes, enhancing the fight against cancer from multiple fronts💪 JExpMed rupress.org/jem/article/22…