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Postdoc/NIDDK F32 - Sonnenberg Lab (Weill Cornell Medicine). Neuroimmune/ILCs/Barrier Immunity/GI/Cancer Immunology

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About UMass Chan Medical School Our mission is to advance the health and wellness of our diverse communities throughout Massachusetts and across the world by leading and innovating in education, research, health care delivery and pu...

Open postdoc position in immunology focusing on ILC3s and gut immunity at UMass Chan!

careers-umms.icims.com/jobs/49293/p...

17.02.2026 23:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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RORΞ³t+ dendritic cells are a distinct lymphoid-derived lineage A distinct lymphoid progenitor generates RORΞ³t+ DCs via a REV-ERB–controlled RORΞ³t enhancer and PRDM16–PU.1-transcriptional programs.

At what point do we simply call these cells a subset of ILC3? They are more similar to ILC3s developmentally, phenotypically, and functionally than to DCs anyways.

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

28.01.2026 22:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Figure S7 with panels A through UU

Figure S7 with panels A through UU

Wow this is a seriously serious supplementary figure from @cellpress.bsky.social today. Panels A through UU.

I get that Cell likes to minimize the number of supplementary figures. But is this really what is happening here?

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

17.12.2025 12:25 πŸ‘ 106 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 22
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Microglial cGAS-STING-TBK1 activation in paraventricular thalamus mediates sleep and emotional disturbances in lupus mice www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

05.07.2025 16:33 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Concurrent loss of the Y chromosome in cancer and T cells impacts outcome - Nature Comprehensive pan-cancer analysis of loss of the Y chromosome (LOY) in benign and malignant cells establishes a new model linking LOY in circulating and tumour-infiltrating immune cells to LOY in...

'We also show that LOY in T cells in the TME can affect cancer mortality in patients. Given the prevalence of LOY in healthy older men, these findings may also have implications for tumour-infiltrating T cell & chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapies.'
#Immunology #Immunotherapy

03.01.2026 23:22 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Mesenchymal cells rebuild the thymus - Nature Biotechnology Cross-species analysis of thymic stroma in mice and humans reveals a subset of mesenchymal cells that are capable of restoring thymic function, which suggests new strategies for thymus regeneration.

'Now, a report by Gustafsson et al. in Nature Biotechnology has identified a subset of thymic mesenchymal cells (ThyMCs) that drives thymic regeneration and harnessed these cells to restore immune function in mice after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.'
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

07.12.2025 13:26 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Feel better during the day than at night during #influenza? Find out the β€œRole of IL-10 signaling in the #circadian control of host response to influenza infection” www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...

05.12.2025 13:47 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Therapeutic VEGFC treatment protects against traumatic brain injury-driven tauopathy pathogenesis @cp-cellreports.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

17.11.2025 13:55 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A Bluesky tweet: β€œJust remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it’s far more likely that autism causes vaccines.”

A Bluesky tweet: β€œJust remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it’s far more likely that autism causes vaccines.”

22.11.2025 21:48 πŸ‘ 479 πŸ” 112 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 8
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SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines sensitize tumours to immune checkpoint blockade - Nature mRNA vaccines targeting SARS-CoV-2 also sensitize tumours to immune checkpoint inhibitors.

A paper in Nature reports that mRNA vaccines targeting SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, also sensitize tumours to immune checkpoint inhibitors. #medsky πŸ§ͺ

29.10.2025 01:50 πŸ‘ 53 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3
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Review @natimmunol.nature.com
Antigen-presenting cells as arbiters of mucosal tolerance and immunity
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

17.10.2025 17:10 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

6/6 From what I've seen, many institutions have also noticed this shift and are focusing resources on these technological developments for the sake of developing treatments and undertaking research that is heavily transnational in lieu of basic science.

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5/6 So what will future Nobels look like? It seems to me that, eventually, the age of discovery will end and be replaced with an age of innovation in which much of the most impactful research will be focused on the development of new technologies rather than discovery of a new protein or cell type

08.10.2025 15:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

4/6 In addition, we now integrate multiple systems within each research project (e.g. neuro-immune, cancer-metabolism, cancer-immunology, etc.) and are studying interactions between cell types and, again, context-dependent functions, which do not generally get awarded the Nobel.

08.10.2025 15:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

3/6 With the current methodologies, much of the research is focused on determining how different cell states and context-dependent functions of cells impact health, but these types of discoveries, although important, do not usually lead to paradigm shifting advances in the field warranting the Nobel

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2/6 Today, with the spread of omics technologies, we have essentially already established what cells exist and have an idea of their overall functions. We will no longer be able to look at a disease, or a classification of diseases, and pin the blame on a new cell type. Problems are more complex.

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1/6 With recent excitement around the #NobelPrize announcements, I think it's worth thinking about what the prize will look like in the future, especially for physiology and medicine. What happens when there’s nothing left to discover in medicine? Have we already picked the low-hanging fruit?

08.10.2025 15:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Medicine Nobel goes to scientists who revealed secrets of immune system β€˜regulation’ Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi discovered cells that protect the body from autoimmune diseases.

Tregs have been one of the central pillars of the field of immunology. It was only a matter of time before these contributions won the #NobelPrize. Much deserved!

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

06.10.2025 20:00 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The fact that public funds are used to publish publicly funded research in journals owned by private publishers, who then sell access to that research at ridiculous prices to entities that buy it with more public funds, is kind of insane.

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With boost to NIH budget, Senate panel rejects Trump’s plan to slash agency Republicans on spending committee push back against proposed reorganization and overhead cuts

"The bill approved today by the Senate Committee on Appropriations includes $47.2 billion for NIH’s base budget, or about 1% more than this year."

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08.08.2025 13:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...."

cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy

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UW Human Resources University of Washington Human Resources

Genome Sciences is looking for a Director of Departmental Computing. This is a rare opportunity for someone interested in leading our excellent IT team, building and maintaining computational infrastructure, and working closely with our faculty and labs uwhires.admin.washington.edu/ENG/candidat...

11.07.2025 21:54 πŸ‘ 47 πŸ” 57 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
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Utility of transgenic hematopoietic stem cell to generate a self-renewing source of tumor-specific cellular immunotherapy in human participants @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

02.07.2025 19:39 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Transcriptome analysis of archived tumors by Visium, GeoMx DSP, and Chromium reveals patient heterogeneity - Nature Communications Currently, there is an urgent need to evaluate the strengths and limitations of various probe-based full transcriptome methods for formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tumor tissues. Here, the authors ana...

πŸŽ‰ New paper alert. We benchmarked Visium, GeoMx, and Chromium for FFPE tumor analysis. Thanks @estellayixingdong.bsky.social for pushing this forward, & MOSAIC collaborators!
πŸ“„ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SpatialTranscriptomics #CancerResearch cc: @owkin.bsky.social @10xgenomics.bsky.social

22.06.2025 06:20 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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ILC3s sense gut microbiota through STING to initiate immune tolerance Immune tolerance to gut microbiota is necessary for health, yet the mechanisms initiating it remain elusive. We profiled MHC II+ cells at single-cell …

Congrats to Wenqing on another wonderful paper that came out today in #Immunity!

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

16.06.2025 17:19 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The gut microbiome connects nutrition and human health Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology - In this Review, Sanz and colleagues discuss how diet shapes the gut microbiome, the role of diet–microbiome interactions on the immune,...

Thrilled to share our latest review on how the gut microbiome connects diet to health, now published in Nature Reviews Gastro & Hepa! Honored to co-sign this piece with outstanding PIs @eranelinav.bsky.social @jfcryan.bsky.social Yolanda Sanz MΓ©lanie Deschasaux Rebekka Lambrecht rdcu.be/epret

04.06.2025 19:56 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Microglial STING is a central safeguard against neurological decline with age Immune pathways and cell types that protect against neurodegenerative processes with aging remain poorly understood. Sulka et al. demonstrate that the innate immune adaptor, STING, provides essential ...

Congrats to my good friend Shruti Sharma!
STING, provides essential protection against blood-brain barrier breaches and neuromotor deficits during physiological aging
@cp-cellreports.bsky.social
cell.com/cell-reports...

02.06.2025 19:10 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Goto Lab | The Jill Roberts Institute for Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Postdoc positions available studying how niche cells drive GI diseases!

robertsinstitute.weill.cornell.edu/faculty/goto...

29.05.2025 17:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A coordinated cellular network regulates tolerance to food - Nature Nature - A coordinated cellular network regulates tolerance to food

'However, we now report that food-specific pTreg cells are exclusively induced by the recently identified RORΞ³t APCs4–8 and not by cDCs. Instead, our data suggest that pTreg–cDC1 interactions in steady-state limit the expansion of food-specific CD8Ξ±Ξ² T cells.'
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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