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Erin Green @erinrgreen.bsky.social · 4d

Job alert ‼️ UChicago Micro is hiring! Open to tenured/tenure track faculty at all levels in any area of microbiology. Come join our amazing and growing department. apply.interfolio.com/174404

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Adriana Forero @adforu.bsky.social · 6d

We are currently in the process of recruiting a technician. 🥼🐭🔬

If you know anyone with enthusiasm to learn new skills and stamina to hear me go on and on about IFNs, please have them reach out to me for more details!

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Adriana Forero @adforu.bsky.social · 10d

Midwest Virology Symposium was amazing. Strong Ohio representation from friends at OSU and Cleveland Clinic 📸. Huge thanks to colleagues at the University of Kentucky for being generous hosts and putting together a fantastic program to showcase our trainees’ work. #MidwestVirology #MVS

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Adriana Forero @adforu.bsky.social · Aug 14

Uncalibrated pipettes.

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Adriana Forero @adforu.bsky.social · Aug 3

Hey friends, it’s Ride Day! I’m pedaling with purpose for Pelotonia to end cancer. Every mile counts and so does your support. 🚴🏼‍♂️ #onegoal www.pelotonia.org/profile/AF74...

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Pelotonia is a community that is determined to see an end to cancer. Together, we've saved countless lives. Help us save more.

www.pelotonia.org

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Adriana Forero @adforu.bsky.social · Aug 1

10 years ago, SCOTUS made a landmark decision to extend marriage rights and allowed me to finally say yes to a life together with a wonderful human evening. She rocks my world! #anniversary

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Sorek Lab @soreklab.bsky.social · Jul 30

We wrote a review on the free nucleotide pool as a central playground in human, bacterial, and plant immunity – now out in Nature Reviews in Immunology

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Was fun to write this piece with Dina Hochhauser!

Here is a thread to explain the premises

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Manipulation of the nucleotide pool in human, bacterial and plant immunity - Nature Reviews Immunology

Modification of the nucleotide pool is emerging as key to innate immunity in animals, plants and bacteria. This Review explains how immune pathways conserved from bacteria to humans manipulate the nuc...

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Adriana Forero @adforu.bsky.social · Jul 23

a man in a white shirt stands in a crowd of people with his eyes closed

ALT: a man in a white shirt stands in a crowd of people with his eyes closed

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NPR @npr.org · Jul 19

Callers to 988 used to be able to press 3 to reach counselors specially trained to help LGBTQ+ young people. The service had been reaching 70,000 people a month.

Trump administration ends 988 Lifeline's special service for LGBTQ+ young people

Callers to 988 used to be able to press 3 to reach counselors specially trained to help LGBTQ+ young people. The service had been reaching 70,000 people a month.

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Adriana Forero @adforu.bsky.social · Jul 13

On our way to Montreal for #ASV2025. Make sure to come check out Matt’s (@mattmcfa17.bsky.social) work during W22-6. Can’t wait to see you all! @amersocvirology.bsky.social

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Adriana Forero @adforu.bsky.social · Jul 11

One of Ohio’s finest sons. Thank you for your service and contributions to the field!

Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · Jul 11

www.fredhutch.org/content/www/...

Virologist and HIV expert Dr. Michael Emerman retires

During his 36-year career at Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Michael Emerman, PhD, made fundamental discoveries about HIV, the retrovirus that causes AIDS. He co-founded the field of paleovirology and consi...

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Adriana Forero @adforu.bsky.social · Jul 11

The reading list keeps growing!!!

Ruth Franklin @ruthfranklinlab.bsky.social · Jul 11

🎉 Over the moon to share the first paper from my lab!! We discovered an unexpected role for the cytokine OSM in lung epithelial homeostasis and repair. 🧵 1/n www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Macrophage-derived oncostatin M repairs the lung epithelial barrier during inflammatory damage

Tissue repair programs must function alongside antiviral immunity to restore the lung epithelial barrier following infection. We found that macrophage-derived oncostatin M (OSM) counteracted the patho...

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Adriana Forero @adforu.bsky.social · Jul 10

📄🧫🔬🐭What are you reading this weekend? Check out @catmphelps.bsky.social, @meisellab.bsky.social, et al’s brand new work! #H2P

meisellab.bsky.social @meisellab.bsky.social · Jul 9

Our lab just completed a +6 year #marathon, describing for the first time that the #microbiome is critical for #exercise - induced increases in antitumor CD8 T cell immunity and improved of #cancer #immunotherapy.
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Exercise-induced microbiota metabolite enhances CD8 T cell antitumor immunity promoting immunotherapy efficacy

Exercise enhances antitumor immunity and immunotherapy effectiveness by increasing microbiota-derived formate, which boosts CD8 T cell function and may serve as a biomarker of melanoma suppression.

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Michael Glickman @michaelglickman.bsky.social · Jun 27

Please apply!

Heran Darwin, PhD @heran.bsky.social · Jun 27

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Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease - Burroughs Wellcome Fund

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Adriana Forero @adforu.bsky.social · Jun 19

You’re killing it! Congrats!

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Quintana Lab @juanquintana.bsky.social · Jun 17

So pleased to see @mcsinton.bsky.social listed as part of the #IUIS #Risingstar2025 program! Looking forward to this event in August.

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Meet the IUIS 2025 Rising Stars! » IUIS

The International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS), together with its Early Career Committee, is delighted to announce the outstanding researchers selected as the IUIS 2025 Rising Stars: This…

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Adriana Forero @adforu.bsky.social · Jun 16

Wohoo! Congrats and well-deserved! Hope we get to celebrate soon.

Adriana Forero @adforu.bsky.social · Jun 15

Real Kings value higher learning.

Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia, founded Univerzita Karlova in Prague in 1348. This is the alma mater of many great minds including physiologist Jan Purkyně (Purkinje). His microscope is on display at the National Museum in Prague.

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Burroughs Wellcome Fund @bwfund.bsky.social · Jun 11

From UGA Research News - Kurup wins prestigious PATH award for groundbreaking malaria research
research.uga.edu/news/kurup-w... #bwfpath

Kurup wins prestigious PATH award for groundbreaking malaria research - UGA Research News

Every year, malaria evades the immune defenses of nearly 250 million people. But Samarchith “Sam” Kurup is determined to outsmart the parasite before it strikes. Now, with the Burroughs Wellcome…

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Burroughs Wellcome Fund @bwfund.bsky.social · Jun 5

Now open - LOIs for the Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH) program. Deadline is July 17 @ 3pm ET.
More information here:
buff.ly/iSu3v60
#bwfpath #GrantOpportunity

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The American Association of Immunologists @aai.org · Jun 2

Proposed cuts to NIH funding threaten American biomedical research, public health, and economic stability. AAI stands in strong opposition and highlights the vital role of NIH in job creation, economic activity, and safeguarding lives.

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Statement from AAI President Stephen C. Jameson on Proposed NIH Funding Cuts - AAI News

AAI is deeply alarmed by the President’s proposal to drastically downsize the NIH by slashing its approximately $47 billion budget in fiscal year (FY) 2025 to just $28 billion in FY 2026.

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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · May 30

Now in #Science #Immunology: Philips, O'Shea, &al. made mice w human pathogenic #STAT1 activating mutation. Mice had #IFNg -dependent #autoimmunity, but their innatelike lymphocytes produced suboptimal IFNg during viral infection. Exogenous IFNg🚫virus-induced lethality, suggesting possible therapy!

An activating Stat1 mutant disrupts normal STAT4 innate lymphocyte programs during viral infection

Stat1 gain-of-function mice fail to resolve inflammation in viral infection because of insufficient early STAT4–IFN-γ responses.

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Burroughs Wellcome Fund @bwfund.bsky.social · May 30

From Nature Communications - Aneuploidy confers a unique transcriptional and phenotypic profile to Candida albicans
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #bwfpath

Aneuploidy confers a unique transcriptional and phenotypic profile to Candida albicans - Nature Communications

Mackey et al report the transcriptional signature and phenotypic features of aneuploid Candida albicans strains which impact infection and susceptibility to environmental stimuli.

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Daniel Ibrahim @danielibrahim.bsky.social · May 27

How to find Evolutionary Conserved Enhancers in 2025? 🐣-🐭
Check out our paper - fresh off the press!!!
We find widespread functional conservation of enhancers in absence of sequence homology
Including: a bioinformatic tool to map sequence-diverged enhancers!
rdcu.be/enVDN
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Conservation of regulatory elements with highly diverged sequences across large evolutionary distances

Nature Genetics - Combining functional genomic data from mouse and chicken with a synteny-based strategy identifies positionally conserved cis-regulatory elements in the absence of direct sequence...

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