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Texas Medical Center Digestive Diseases Center @tmcddc.bsky.social · 7d

TOMORROW @ 4PM CST ‼️

Join us for a discussion about our #Gastrointestinal Experimental Model Systems (GEMS) Core! 🪩

This massive hub of GI intellect delivers incredible #organoid culture development for a variety of needs, as well as specialized #microbiome #murine models. 🐁

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Texas Medical Center Digestive Diseases Center @tmcddc.bsky.social · 13d

TODAY @ 4PM CST!

Join us for Dr. David Corry's discussion of #gut #fungi and how they can spread to other parts of the body, thus causing diseases. 🦠

Here, Dr. Corry will draw links between gut fungi and #neurodegenerative diseases. You don't want to miss this seminar! 🧠

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Texas Medical Center Digestive Diseases Center @tmcddc.bsky.social · 23d

We're BACK with our Thursday seminar series! 🪩

After a summer of inspiring conferences, we're excited to kick off this season's seminars with Dr. Mimi Tan introducing our Study Design & Clinical Research Core! 🧠

#TMC #DDC is here to elevate your #gastrosky and #liversky research! 💃

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Texas Medical Center Digestive Diseases Center @tmcddc.bsky.social · Apr 24

TODAY @ 4PM CST ‼️

Dr. Heather Danhof joins us this week for another discussion about the #infant #microbiome! Today, she'll highlight the #gut-brain axis and how it dynamically changes during gestation and post-birth.

Join us for one of the final seminars of the spring semester! 💐🌷

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Texas Medical Center Digestive Diseases Center @tmcddc.bsky.social · Apr 17

TODAY @ 4PM CST ‼️ We've got a special back-to-back for y'all 🤠

Dr. @sohinibanerjee.bsky.social will discuss her research on #infant #enteroids as a model for the developing gut!

Then, Dr. Yang Yang from McGovern Medical School will share what she's learned about COX-2 in the context of #IBD.

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Texas Medical Center Digestive Diseases Center @tmcddc.bsky.social · Apr 10

TODAY @ 4PM CST ‼️

We're excited to host Dr. Amy Hair from @bcmhouston.bsky.social and Texas Children's Hospital! Working with #preterm #neonates, her research explores how human milk positively affects growth in very low birth weight.

Join in-person or via Zoom!

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Texas Medical Center Digestive Diseases Center @tmcddc.bsky.social · Apr 8

Need plans for this weekend? Look no further!

You can still register for our annual #GIsky and #liversky course! Join us either in-person at the Westin Houston Medical Center or via Zoom.

This session will discuss clinical guidelines and pearls of wisdom!

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Texas Medical Center Digestive Diseases Center @tmcddc.bsky.social · Apr 3

TODAY @ 4:00PM CST ‼️

We are honored to host Dr. Andrew T. Chan from @harvardmed.bsky.social for this week's #TMC #DDC seminar!

He will discuss the correlation between #aspirin and lower #colorectalcancer risk, leading to the imperative for precision medicine.

Don't miss this one!

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Texas Medical Center Digestive Diseases Center @tmcddc.bsky.social · Mar 27

TODAY @ 4PM CST ‼️

Escape the rain for this week's #TMC #DDC seminar, presented this week by Dr. Pablo Okhuysen from @mdanderson.bsky.social!

Investigating #enteric #pathogens, Dr. Okhuysen will discuss how the microbiome interacts with these bacteria in cancer patients.🦠

See you there!

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Texas Medical Center Digestive Diseases Center @tmcddc.bsky.social · Mar 25

#TMC #DDC represented at the #NCURA Financial Research Administration Conference in San Diego this past weekend!

With more than 800 attendees and a keynote talk from Dr. Andrea Hollingsworth, our administrative team and colleagues' knowledge and capabilities are stronger than ever before!

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Texas Medical Center Digestive Diseases Center @tmcddc.bsky.social · Mar 20

TODAY ‼️ @ 4PM CST

On this beautiful day, make your way over to @bcmhouston.bsky.social for Dr. Robert Taylor Ripley's discussion!

Joining us from BCM's thoracic surgery division, this decorated surgeon will go over mitochondria and their dysfunction in esophageal cancer.

Texas Medical Center Digestive Diseases Center @tmcddc.bsky.social · Mar 13

No DDC seminar this week :( it's spring break! 🌷

On this lovely, sunny Thursday, enjoy a walk or time at a park! Rest is just as imperative to productivity and thinking as bench work or reading papers.

Texas Medical Center Digestive Diseases Center @tmcddc.bsky.social · Mar 12

Congratulations to our 2025 Pilot Feasibility Award winners!

We are honored to support these #TMC #DDC scientists continuing their cutting-edge research! We know they'll contribute great things to this field!

@caitvondero.bsky.social
@bcmhouston.bsky.social

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Texas Medical Center Digestive Diseases Center @tmcddc.bsky.social · Mar 4

Congratulations to our #GIresearch symposium poster contest winners!!

🥇 Luqiong Wang, @bcmhouston.bsky.social
🥈 Lauren Lynch, Baylor College of Medicine
🥉 Sohini Banerjee, Baylor College of Medicine

It was close competition! We are lucky to have so many scientists at our institutions 🤠

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Texas Medical Center Digestive Diseases Center @tmcddc.bsky.social · Feb 22

Defying distance, Dr. Krupa Mysore virtually presented her amazing #hepatology research!

Looking at #cholestasis, she delved into the relationship between bile acids and immune response, describing how different immune cells are affected by these bike acids.

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Texas Medical Center Digestive Diseases Center @tmcddc.bsky.social · Feb 22

Dr. Greg Guthrie kindly shared some early work from his latest project!

The introduction to a beautiful story beginning to be told, he touched on the microbiome, gut, and liver through a #neonatal #cholestasis lens. His talk inspired fabulous conversation, as well!

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Texas Medical Center Digestive Diseases Center @tmcddc.bsky.social · Feb 22

We pivoted from the gut to the #liver with Dr. Cynthia Ju’s talk! She discussed the communication that happens in the liver, particularly during immune response after #reperfusion injury and ischaemia.

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Texas Medical Center Digestive Diseases Center @tmcddc.bsky.social · Feb 22

#Celiac Disease is a highly complicated #autoimmune disorder.

However, Dr. Valerie Abadie expertly deconvoluted the immune intricacies of Celiac Disease in her talk - intercellular interactions in the intestine, all the different immune cells involved, and much more!

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Texas Medical Center Digestive Diseases Center @tmcddc.bsky.social · Feb 22

Dr. Jill Weatherhead served all of these #gastroenterology and #hepatology experts a lesson in worms!

Yes, she delved into #ascaris and her lab’s journey in connecting the stomach to this parasite’s ability to take advantage of this microenvironment

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Texas Medical Center Digestive Diseases Center @tmcddc.bsky.social · Feb 22

“Eosinophils are the coolest cells ever” - @dunnimmunolab.bsky.social (without bias)

Seriously though, Dr. Dunn shared amazing details about #eosinophils and the ways her lab has manipulated in vitro conditions to observe any changes in cell behavior, proliferation, identity, and more!

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Texas Medical Center Digestive Diseases Center @tmcddc.bsky.social · Feb 22

We interrupt this symposium for a fire alarm test…

Yep it works 🫡

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Texas Medical Center Digestive Diseases Center @tmcddc.bsky.social · Feb 22

Dr. Seems Aceves shared a beautiful and complex story about eosinophilic esophagitis in the lab and the clinic!

Her deep dive story included the markers #CD73 and #YAP, muscular rigidity, and the possibility that there’s more the #EoE than previously thought 🧐

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Texas Medical Center Digestive Diseases Center @tmcddc.bsky.social · Feb 22

Shoutout to Lisa Brunet for representing the American Partnership For #Eosinophilic Disorders at our #DDC #GIresearch #immunology symposium!

She shared a touching and important story about her own son, invigorating us for the start of the day.

APFED (American Partnership For Eosinophilic Disorders)

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Texas Medical Center Digestive Diseases Center @tmcddc.bsky.social · Feb 22

GOOD MORNING HOUSTON 🌞

Make sure to get here early - fuel your brain with food and coffee for an incredible morning of science :)

See y'all soon~

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Texas Medical Center Digestive Diseases Center @tmcddc.bsky.social · Feb 21

🏥 Symposium Spotlight 🏥

With #pediatric #hepatology expertise both clinically and in the lab, Dr. Krupa Mysore works as both a transplant hepatologist and research scientist at Texas Children's Hospital! She tackles many liver-related topics, including #cholestasis, #immunology, and more.

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