A busy day for Dept of Immunology @ UofM attendees at #CSI2025 with 2 workshop talks & 7 trainee posters! Great job to everyone! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Still more talks & posters to come so it is nice to have so many of us here in Gatineau 😀😀 Canadian Society for Immunology U of M Rady Faculty uManitoba Research

2nd poster session for Dept of Immunology @ UofM trainees at #CSI2025! Great posters again this time covering gut health/colitis, asthma and rheumatoid arthritis👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Canadian Society for Immunology T. J. Olumade ✪

The letter to 🇨🇦 political leaders started at University of Manitoba about the importance of research funding is up to 862 signatures, but we need many more! Please read & consider signing if ur a 🇨🇦 researcher at any stage of your career! 👇👇 Canadian Society for Immunology Canadian Society for Virology

Such a great Bernhard Cinader Award Lecture by Dr Megan Levings at #CSI2025! An inspiration for #womeninSTEM, #scienceMoms & translational human #immunology. So many awesome discoveries related to #Tregs & clinical trials in the works👏🏻👏🏻 BC Children's Hospital Canadian Society for Immunology

Time for the awards banquet at #CSI2025 🥳🥂🎉 Here is our Dept of Immunology @ UofM crew this year- 23 total attendees is pretty good! We hope to see many in Winnipeg next year too so #savethedate! Canadian Society for Immunology

Welcome to Monireh, our new postdoc starting today! She comes to us excited to work on #IFNL #immunoregulation with previous training in Iran for her PhD, MSc and BSc. We are happy to have her join and bring new ideas to the team 🥳🎉👩‍🔬 Dept of Immunology @ UofM U of M Rady Faculty

Amazing talk by Dr Meera Nair today related to helminths, macrophages & type II immunity + intriguing data on how the immune phenotype differed depending on if male or female animal 👏🏻👏🏻 Thankful she made the long trip up from California🌞 Dept of Immunology @ UofM U of M Rady Faculty Jude

This #DayofImmunology I am flying to give a talk tomorrow in the McMaster Immunology seminar series 🛫 Looking forward to visiting McMaster for the 1st time😀 UM Discover Days is also today where kids come to campus to have fun with STEM activities- thanks to our Dept of Immunology @ UofM volunteers!

What a fun visit to McMaster presenting a few #SanterLab projects and having lots of discussions about #IFNs and other cytokines + of course some B cell science too with Josh. AND got to reunite with Manali Mukherjee as an extra bonus 😀 🥳

1 final call to add signatures now that Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney is elected. We need better investments in 🇨🇦 research when underfunded for so long. Will the PM commit to a significant tri-council 💰 ⬆️!? Please read & sign if a 🇨🇦 researcher at any stage of your career 👇👇

Excited to announce our newest #Immunology recruitment 🎉🥳 This is for a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) so a position that doesn't open up often! Please share widely to researchers studying inflammation, human immunology, immunotherapeutics & more. Happy to answer any dept Qs 👇

Great lab meeting today welcoming UManitoba Science co-op student Junel for his summer work term & celebrating some great news T. J. Olumade ✪ received recently 🥳🥳🎉🎉 Lots of fun #IFNL work planned for the rest of 2025 😀😀😀 U of M Rady Faculty Dept of Immunology @ UofM #newlabphoto

I guess this was great data Friday! 😊 1st, all 3 grad students working on our #NFRF-Exploration grant with Anna Blakney & The Wakarchuk Lab made big strides forward, then some intriguing results from MaggieJOY...🤔🤔 Everyone really getting 😎 #IFNL results lately 🥳

Perfect day to join our team in our support of the #GutsyWalk and Crohn's and Colitis Canada with double the donation! 👇👇👇 We look forward to joining everyone June 1 🥳 Bake sale also upcoming with Jean-Eric Ghia's lab at Dept of Immunology @ UofM May 26 🧁🍪 crohnsandcolitiscanada.akaraisin.com/ui/GutsyWalk20…

WGO is proud to support EFCCA’s #WorldIBDDay2025 campaign! Together, we are showing that #IBDHasNoBorders — and neither should understanding or compassion. Learn more about the campaign here: buff.ly/pN8MSAz

For the past 6 months, I have mentored a grade 11 student in a research project on H5N1 as part of SCWIST's Quantum Leaps program. Tonight, I'm excited to be joined by Drs Barbara Porto & Alyson Kelvin as we hear about the project & then answer career Qs from 🇨🇦 gr11 girls 😀

Today only! We are raising money for Crohn's and Colitis Canada for our Gutsy Walk team! Amazing team effort by #SanterLab & Jean-Eric Ghia's lab so thanks all for baking all these wonderful treats 🍪🧁🥧 Great sales already 🤑💰😀

Congrats #PortoLab & @juliacerato great job spearheading the work from UofM Med Micro & ID! 🎉🥳🥂 Also bonus our 1st collaborative paper out with Barbara Porto of a few in the works! T. J. Olumade ✪ & I were happy to play a small part when #IFNs were involved 😉

Excited for #GutsyWalk Winnipeg today & super proud of our team raising $1280 so far for Crohn's and Colitis Canada 🎉🥳👏🏻 Come see members from Jean-Eric Ghia & I's lab at the Impact Table to hear about ongoing #IBD research efforts at University of Manitoba Dept of Immunology @ UofM 🔬👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 Gutsy Walk - Crohn's and Colitis Canada 🚶‍♀️🌞 uManitoba Research

It was a hot one 🥵☀️ at the Winnipeg #GutsyWalk, but amazing to hear almost $100k was raised from this walk already 👏🏻👏🏻 Thanks to all who supported our team & Crohn's and Colitis Canada 🙏🏻 My lab is very thankful to be supported by a CCC grant that is only possible through donations 🙏🏻