
Alex Lercher
@alex_lercher
Immunologist | HFSP Postdoctoral Fellow @RiceLaboratory | PhD @bergthalerlab | opinions are my own. find me on @alercher.bsky.social
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Thank you Josefowicz Lab for having me - it was a pleasure and fun discussions!

Great review by Julia S. Brunner and Lydia Finley on how 𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙘 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙢𝙨 influence basic decision points of cell identity like self-renewal vs proliferation – makes me want to give my current project a metabolic twist! Nature Reviews Endocrinology rdcu.be/c0DRI


Sub-cutaneous BCG vaccination induces 𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙞𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙮 in alveolar macrophages via altered metabolite output of the gut microbiota. In fact, dietary supplementation of butyrate is sufficient! Nature Immunology nature.com/articles/s4159…


Thank you Nature Communications for publishing my first paper and asking me about the slightly turbulent back story! nature.com/articles/s4146…





Chronic autoimmunity rewires metabolism in progenitors, correlating with innate immune memory formation in macrophages that increases antibacterial activity but might also aggravate autoimmune diseases? shorturl.at/SZ1Ww Cell Stem Cell Eric Pietras Taylor Scott Mills



Great Spotlight by Prof. Akiko Iwasaki and Sasha Tabachnikova 🇺🇦 on our recent publication in Immunity, where we studied antiviral innate immune memory in alveolar macrophages in the context of respiratory viral infections! cell.com/trends/immunol…

A commensal bacterium triggers systemic antibody responses via skin lymphoid structures and can be engineered as a topical vaccine – great therapeutic potential! Two studies in nature by Michael Fischbach and Belkaid Lab tinyurl.com/5yahn47t tinyurl.com/4n4btxap

