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Eugenio Contreras

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PhD Immunology student #UNAM. Passionate for science and the immune system. Interested in scientific discussion and the creation of space for science diffusion and education. #Mexican #OpenScience #OpenBoxScience @openboxscience.bsky.social

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OBS Seminar
Tregs: Friend or Foe against CRC?

πŸ‘¨β€πŸ”¬ @drxiaohuang.bsky.social @mskcancercenter.bsky.social - Rudensky Lab @cp-immunity.bsky.social

πŸ“£ @eugecc.bsky.social @licona-limonlab.bsky.social

πŸ—“οΈ Thu , 02-026-26 8: AM PT , 11 AM ET, 4pm GMT, pm CET
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19.02.2026 15:01 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Felicidades Daniela! Me inspirΓ³ mucho siempre tu tweet donde descrbΓ­as que al regresar a MΓ©xico ibas "fade into mediocrity". Y todo lo contrario, tu trabajo y ciencia hablan por ti. Eres en verdad un modelo a seguir para los cientΓ­ficos en formaciΓ³n! Por muchos logros mas

18.02.2026 22:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ancestry and somatic profile indicate acral melanoma origin and prognosis - Nature Analysis of the somatic and transcriptomic profile of 123 acral melanoma samples from Mexican patients helps understand tumour origins and prognosis, and highlights the importance of including samples...

We are very happy to see our study finally appear online @nature.com! This has been work of nearly 10 years in collaboration with the National Institute of Genome Medicine πŸ‡²πŸ‡½, the National Cancer Institute πŸ‡²πŸ‡½, the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social and others ⬇️

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

18.02.2026 17:52 πŸ‘ 89 πŸ” 41 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 3
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Tumour-brain crosstalk restrains cancer immunity via a sensory-sympathetic axis KrasLSLβˆ’G12D/+; p53fl/fl (KP) mice have been described previously55. KP mice were crossed with Rosa26LSLβˆ’tdTomato mice to generate KP; LSL-tdTomato mice. Wild-type C57BL/6 J, Trpv1-cre, Rosa26LSLβˆ’DTR (LSL-DTR), Vglut2-cre, Baf53b-cre, PparΞ³fl/fl and CD11c-cre mice were purchased from The Jackson Laboratory. Trpv1-cre and...

Tumour-brain crosstalk restrains cancer immunity via a sensory-sympathetic axis
->Nature | More on "Brain tumor immune system interaction" at BigEarthData.ai

04.02.2026 23:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Amazing work! Congratulations

04.02.2026 20:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Ontogeny and transcriptional regulation of Thetis cells - Nature Nature - Ontogeny and transcriptional regulation of Thetis cells

Very happy to share our new study defining the ontogeny of Thetis cells and the developmental cues that shape their early-life wave of differentiation. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Beautiful work led by @hhmi-science.bsky.social Gilliam Fellow Yoselin Paucar Iza and postdoc Tyler Park 1/

03.02.2026 16:50 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2
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Some of your cells are not genetically yours β€” what can they tell us about life and death? A tiny population of cells that are passed across the placenta between mother and baby challenge basic tenets of human immunology.

@nature.com book review by @babiesresearch.bsky.social on book Hidden Guests
Some of your cells are not genetically yours β€” what can they tell us about life and death? nature.com/articles/d41...
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31.12.2025 15:38 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
16.01.2026 21:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸŽ™οΈ OBS Speaker Highlight

πŸ‘©πŸ”¬ Alejandra Mendoza @scripps.edu @science.org @mskcancercenter.bsky.social

πŸ“Œ Registration
πŸ‘‰https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/PAhTFIZIR8qQ4Jj0UrUWQA#/registration

05.01.2026 18:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ”₯ We’re starting the year strong with Treg Immunology! πŸ”₯

01.01.2026 21:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Congratulations to Drs. Jose Villadangos and Hamish McWilliam's (@hay-mish.bsky.social) labs on their @science.org paper!

Their teams at the Doherty Institute showed that #macrophages are key for MR1 antigen presentation and MAIT cell immunity.

πŸ—’οΈ https://bit.ly/49W1GW1
🎀 https://bit.ly/44Ay1OG

26.12.2025 15:58 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Excited to share our new study, the paper is out today @cp-immunity.bsky.social! Not all Treg cells are the same. We identified two Treg cell subsets with opposing functions in colorectal cancer (CRC). 1/8

15.12.2025 21:34 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3
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Melanoma cells escape immune surveillance by releasing MHC-antigen-loaded melanosomes that directly engage and impair CD8+ T cell receptors @cellcellpress.bsky.social @weizmanninstitute.bsky.social @ragoninstitute.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

16.12.2025 22:55 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Intravital observation of neuronal and immune cell dynamics in the developing mammalian brain @cellcellpress.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

16.12.2025 22:58 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Distinct components of mRNA vaccines cooperate to instruct efficient germinal center responses This study dissects the individual contributions of the different components of mRNA vaccines to immune responses. Nucleoside-modified mRNA promotes the production of type I interferons that act on de...

I am excited to share that our work, in which we have dissected the signals driven by the nucleoside-modified mRNA and LNP components of mRNA vaccines that regulate germinal center (GC) responses, is now published in Cell! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

16.12.2025 17:39 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 4
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Opposing functions of distinct regulatory T cell subsets in colorectal cancer Huang et al. study the heterogeneity of regulatory T (Treg) cells in a genetic model of colorectal cancer (CRC) and find that interleukin (IL)-10βˆ’ Treg cells promote tumor progression, whereas IL-10+ ...

Mind-blowing 🀯 IL-10⁺ Tregs restrain tumor growth?! Maybe it’s time to rethink β€œimmunosuppressive cytokines” ; their function clearly depends on the inflammatory milieu. @mskcancercenter.bsky.social @cp-immunity.bsky.social www.cell.com/immunity/ful...

16.12.2025 01:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Generating functionally stable and antigen-specific Treg cells from effector T cells for cell therapy of inflammatory diseases Antigen-specific and functionally stable Treg cells can be generated in vitro from effector/memory T cells for cell therapy of inflammatory diseases.

Kyoto University scientists converted ordinary T cells into stable regulatory T cells that can suppress autoimmune disease in mice.

This approach may enable personalized, targeted cell therapy for inflammatory diseases.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

28.10.2025 02:06 πŸ‘ 62 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

REFLEX, a Novel Immune Profiling Assay, Combining TCR Repertoire and Multiome at Massively Scalable Single-cell Resolution to Catapult Exploration of T-cell Derived Immunity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.24.684243v1

28.10.2025 19:16 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Temporal and context-dependent requirements for the transcription factor Foxp3 expression in regulatory T cells @natimmunol.nature.com @yuripritykin.bsky.social Rudensky @princetonupress.bsky.social @mskcancercenter.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

08.10.2025 17:17 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The vaccine we all wear: Skin microbiota can be engineered into topical vaccines Skin microbiota can be engineered into topical vaccines

How basic research at the interface of #immunology and #microbiology leads to potential new #vaccines that could be applied on the skin. Favorite sentence: "We applied bacterial cultures to the heads of mice by gently rubbing their skin with a swab."
www.science.org/doi/full/10....

04.07.2025 16:21 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸŒΏπŸ”¬ Call for Papers: Ecoimmunology Special Collection

Explore how ecological factors shape immune responses in humans & animals - from wild systems to lab models.

πŸ§ͺ Submit your work: bridging ecology + immunology!

πŸ“– https://bit.ly/44N141N

#Ecoimmunology #Immunology

04.07.2025 17:32 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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The Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 scientists for work on peripheral immune tolerance Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for their discoveries about peripheral immune tolerance.

BREAKING: Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi win the Nobel Prize in medicine for work on peripheral immune tolerance.

06.10.2025 09:41 πŸ‘ 459 πŸ” 144 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 28
"[Verena Van Der Heide] Finite antigen exposure drives reversible defects in β€˜helpless’ CD8+ T cells
"[Verena Van Der Heide] Finite antigen exposure drives reversible defects in β€˜helpless’ CD8+ T cells Verena Van Der Heide, (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ) Prolonged but finite antigen presentation promotes reversible defects of β€˜β€˜helpless’’ memory CD8+ T cells (Immunity 2025)

youtu.be/ArQgwaqwpW4
Verena Van Der Heide talk is now on Youtube!
Prolonged but finite antigen presentation promotes reversible defects of β€˜β€˜helpless’’ memory CD8+ T cells. @ ImmunityCP @SinaiImmunol @LCMVlab

03.10.2025 14:31 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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My lab with Dr Miriam Merad @Miriammerad at the national congress of the Mexican Society of Immunology πŸ₯° It was an honour to have the chance to meet such an inspiring leader in immunology

01.10.2025 11:40 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: OBS Immunology Seminar . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Help Wanted: CD4⁺ T Cells as Architects and Rescuers of CD8⁺ T Cell Responses Verena Van Der Heide, (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ) Prolonged but finite antigen presentation promotes reversible...

OBS Seminar: Neuroimmunology
πŸ‘©πŸ”¬ Sara Trabanelli University of Geneva
"Neural anticipation of virtual infection triggers an immune response"

πŸ—“οΈ Thu 25th September7:00 AM PDT 10:00 AM EDT 2:00 PM GMT 4:00 PM CEST

πŸ‘‡ Registration:
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15.09.2025 13:02 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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OBS Immunology Seminar

πŸ‘©β€πŸ”¬ Verena Van Der Heide,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai @cp-immunity.bsky.social
πŸ‘©β€πŸ”¬ @valentinavenzin.bsky.social @iannaconelab.bsky.social @unisr.bsky.social @pasteur.fr

πŸ—“οΈ Thu, September 4th, 11 AM EDT, 3 pm GMT, 5 pm CET

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04.09.2025 11:44 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

🚫 Update: Our online seminar has been cancelled/postponed. Thanks to everyone who showed interestβ€”we’ll share updates on future sessions here!

03.09.2025 22:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Phase 1 of a hypoimmune allogeneic T cell product, CRISPR deleted TRAC, PD1, HLA-A, HLA-B, CIITA, with a CD19-targeting synthetic TCR and antigen receptor in TRAC locus in 5 patients with severe, refractory #lupus nephritis @naturemedicine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

28.08.2025 00:42 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Anchored screening identifies transcription factor blueprints underlying dendritic cell diversity and subset-specific anti-tumor immunity @cp-immunity.bsky.social @lunduniversity.bsky.social www.cell.com/immunity/ful...

29.08.2025 21:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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KIR–HLA Interactions Influences Cetuximab Efficacy in Colorectal Cancer
www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/26...

29.08.2025 16:49 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0