Taenia crassiceps can undergo asexual proliferation in their intermediate hosts - while convenient, it has its drawbacks. This study found that after years of being maintained through serial passages in lab mice, these tapeworms developed abnormalities. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Very important new study by Jeffrey Griffith and colleagues on the previously underappreciated role that respiratory disease and transmission may play in cryptosporidiosis in children. ajtmh.org/view/journals/… Trends in Parasitology British Society for Parasitology ASTMH NIAID News Gates Foundation

🚨 New preprint alert! Leukocytes can enter and migrate within every tissue of the body, even though tissues vary in their chemical and mechanical composition. Here, we asked if leukocytes accomplish this by using tissue-specific migration strategies. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Caroline Langley (Caroline Langley) is crossing the country to start her postdoc, while Peter Dietzen, Michael Emerman & Jeannette Tenthorey have given up on X. I am happy to announce their discovery about ancient origins of antiviral Mx proteins biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/

We’re hiring a Research Administrative Director for a new Center that will be launching at CHOP Research this Fall! Come help us improve pediatric health at the Center for Microbial Medicine! More details on the Center to follow soon! careers.chop.edu/xxWP6tN

Join us!

Gut feeling is real: The intestinal immune system is activated in response to inflammatory cues regardless of their origin. Great work from Michael Gerner journals.aai.org/jimmunol/artic…

Thrilled for Benjamin Broomfield WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute) and the other awardees of the ICIS-Pfizer Most Promising Research Presentation at Cytokines 2024 International Cytokine & Interferon Society (ICIS) Looking forward to seeing everyone in Seoul!

With >920 species, Hymenolepididae is an extremely speciose family of tapeworms. When researchers examined the phylogeny of hymenolepids from mammalians hosts, they found that these tapeworms have switched hosts between rodents and shrews multiple times. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

I'm looking for 2 Postdocs and a Technician to join my team in Institute of Immunology & Infection, investigating #mucosal #immunity & #inflammation during #schistosome #infection. If this sounds exciting to you, please apply! (deadline 19th Sep) 🪱🔬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat… elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Especially when waiting for an editorial decision while living in a time zone outside the US.

I wonder what set of metrics led to this popping on my feeds - nicely explains the value to experiments

These tiny worms live in eyes, feed on tears and could transmit to humans Penn Vet usatoday.com/story/news/nat… via @usatoday

Do your technically valid CRISPR screening results deviate from your phenotype using clean knock out cells? Paracrine rescue of individual KOs in pools of mutants could be the answer. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Francesca Torelli, Diogo da Fonseca, Joanna Young, Simon Butterworth 1/3

For new/junior Penn IGG faculty - a free breakfast with a mix of pop culture from Kellie Ann Jurado CannaLab Aaron Ring - you guys will need to look up the meaning of demure

Excited to announce the launch of the Center for Microbial Medicine CHOP Research! This new translational Center of Emphasis at CHOP will be dedicated to finding cures and improving pediatric health through the lens of the microbiome research.chop.edu/cornerstone-bl…

I am excited to share our Nature Communications paper describing the structure of #LAG3 bound to MHC-II. This project was carried out by Q&M et al at Moffitt Research and provides new insights into the mechanism by which LAG3 suppresses T cell activation. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Ahhhhhh - now this reminds me of what Science Twitter was like. Super cool road map to help the Toxo community!

This paper on thromboinflammation is everywhere this week. Unfortunately nobody commenting on it seems to have read it! I have, and it definitely doesn't say what commentators are suggesting. 🧵nature.com/articles/s4158…