Winner of the MIRC costume contest, 5th year in a row!

Congratulations to Sophie Poznanski, PhD from Ashkar Lab, who received one of two Governor General's Academic Gold Medals, awarded to a graduating student achieving the highest academic standing at the grad level! dailynews.mcmaster.ca/articles/gover…

Happy holidays everyone! Check out the amazing gingerbread lab our students made! 🎄#gingerbreadlab

Thanks BioLegend for the gift!

Save the date! #CanNKC2024 will be held June 13-14, 2024 Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa! Stay tuned for more details!

What happens when an NK cell, T cell and macrophage walk into an hgsc tumour? #ovariancancer #spatialbiology #nkcells frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #ovariancancer

Excited to share my research was published today Nature Communications ! We find that bystander activated T cells, rather than the virus itself, is responsible for virus-associated neurological disease! Ashkar Lab McMaster Immunology McMaster Health Sciences McMaster IIDR nature.com/articles/s4146…

Our new paper authored by our PhD candidate Liz Balint looks at the role of bystander activated T cells during ZIKV neurological disease. Check it out! Amazing work Liz! Nature Communications

Congrats to all Canadian Society for Immunology conference travel award winners! Special shout out to Dept of Immunology @ UofM students Olamide Ogungbola (our lab), Marina Costa Fujishima (she/her) & Diane Tshikudi & #IFNL enthusiast/collaborator Emily Feng 🎉🥳👏🏻 Looking forward to seeing everyone in Banff at #CSI2024 😀

Congratulations to our PhD student for their recents awards! 🥳 Emily Feng was awarded a CSI Travel Award and the MIRC Travel Award! Ana Portillo was awarded the W.E. Rawls Memorial Scholarship and the Alyssa Vito Scholarship in Cancer Research! 👏

Long Presentation Winners: 1st place: Liam Rondeau 2nd place: Ana Portillo 3rd place: Ann Kuganathan

Excited to share my very first publication! Thanks Maz for giving me the chance to write about innate immune memory- a new concept to us, but an ancient phenomenon.

We are super proud to announce that three of our students have been awarded external awards! 👏 Congrats to Amelia and Alexa for winning CGS-M awards! Congrats to Misaal for wining an OGS award to support the second year of her MSc!

Enjoying the slopes before some science! See you at #CSI2024 Canadian Society for Immunology

Congrats to our PhD candidates for their poster awards at this years #CSI2024 Ana Portillo Emily Feng and Liz Balint for her first place poster award! McMaster Immunology

Our PhD students were awarded McMaster Health Sciences Plenary Awards! Congratulations to Emily Feng for an Outstanding Achievement Award and to Liz Balint and Ana Portillo for Publication Awards!

Check out the latest issue of Immunological Reviews on innate immunity (with an adaptive twist!) where Josefowicz Lab and I convinced a bunch of talented colleagues to contribute. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1600065x/2…

Why does covalency matter? Here we develop a new covalent #inducedproximity system that activates T cell tumoricidal function through stabilized ternary complexes. Covalency is observed to uniquely enforce immune receptor activation signaling events! doi.org/10.1016/j.omto…