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Immunology Podcast @immunologypodcast.com · Aug 20

Drs. José Carlos Alves Filho, Luciana Berod (@luberod.bsky.social), and Thomas Weichhart (@weichhartlab.bsky.social) are presenting their work on the metabolic regulation of immune responses at #IUIS2025!

Check out the session at 1:45 pm in Hall E1.

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Lydia Lynch @lydialynch.bsky.social · Jul 28

This was a labor of love requiring lots of teamwork over years, repeating in 3 locations! Thanks to all the lab over the years, giving their time generously to this team project, & our wonderful collaborators. The source of fat matters for anti-tumor immunity 🐄🐖🧈🌴🫒🥥
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

The source of dietary fat influences anti-tumour immunity in obese mice - Nature Metabolism

This study shows that animal-based high-fat diets accelerate tumour growth and impair anti-tumour response to melanoma in obese mice, whereas plant-based high-fat diets do not.

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Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene @immh-mainz.bsky.social · Apr 15

15 PhDs, 11 countries, 1 goal: Rethinking immunotherapy!

@luberod.bsky.social leads #UNLIMITED, a newly EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions #MSCA Doctoral Network on lipid #immunometabolism with €4.5m for cutting-edge science!! Congratulationss!

#immunology
#bioinformatics
#drugdevelopment

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Luciana Berod @luberod.bsky.social · Apr 2

www.linkedin.com/posts/mscact...

#msca #industry #business #marieskłodowskacurieactions #unionofskills… | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Strengthening Europe’s research and innovation capacity also means investing in its researcher’s long-term careers. This is precisely the goal of the #MSCA…

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Luciana Berod @luberod.bsky.social · Apr 2

Proud to announce that we are one of the 149 out of 1417 successful applicants to be funded for a EU MSCA Doctoral Network! Looking forward to this big challenge coordinaring such an amazing network: UNLIMITED (UNderstanding Lipid ImmunoMetabolIsm To trEat Disease)

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International Union of Immunological Societies @iuis-online.bsky.social · Feb 25

Join us at #IUIS2025 in Vienna, Austria for an exciting plenary on Innate Immunity & Sensing of Danger with speakers, Dr. Osamu Takeuchi and Dr. Xuetao Cao!

Learn more and register at www.iuis2025.org!

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Luciana Berod @luberod.bsky.social · Feb 12

Happy to share our new publication in @Molecular Metabolism, one more example of the powerful link between metabolism and immune function!
#Immunology #Tregs #Metabolism #MedicalResearch #FoxP3 #Immunometabolism

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

ACC1 is a Dual Metabolic-Epigenetic Regulator of Treg Stability and Immune Tolerance

Regulatory T cells (Tregs) are essential in maintaining immune tolerance and controlling inflammation. Treg stability relies on transcriptional and po…

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