@ahernandezb.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher at UNIL. Joyce,s lab, Exploring and Exploiting the Tumor Microenvironment. Interested in understanding how to stop brain metastasis.
Photo of all our team members at our international lab dinner, with some of the dishes at the front of the picture
Celebrating our annual international lab dinner 🎉 👨🏽🍳 🧑🏻🍳
We are so fortunate to have this amazing team of motivated scientists, and very talented cooks 🤩 sharing delicious food & culture from around the world 🌍🌎🌏
Grateful for our #international #team 🇮🇹🇫🇷🇨🇦🇪🇸🇨🇭🇬🇧🇪🇬🇩🇪🇵🇹🇲🇽🇮🇪 - this truly enriches our science 🙏 🙌
Dear friends at the University of Lausanne - please consider signing this petition
This is to say NO to the funding cut of 24 million CHF that will negatively impact the quality of our teaching & research 🧪🧑🏼🎓 - and have a knock-on effect on the local economy
All students, staff, faculty can sign ⏬
Photo of new lab members outside the Agora Cancer Research Center, Lausanne, left to right: Matteo Poncina Inés Panigua Cabana Alessandro Gigliotti Juan Daniel Martin del Campo Flores
A warm welcome to our new lab members!
Matteo Poncina 🇮🇹 starting his PhD in the Adaptmet ITN
Inés Panigua Cabana 🇪🇸 joining us for her postdoc
Alessandro Gigliotti 🇨🇭 & Juan Daniel Martin del Campo Flores 🇲🇽 doing their master thesis research with us
Looking forward to exciting science together 🙌 🧪
𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄: 𝐅𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚
#BrainTIME 🧠🦠🔬🧪
UNIL news 📰: www.unil.ch/news/1757312...
#OpenAccess article 🔗: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@alvarezprado.bsky.social @ahernandezb.bsky.social
@joycelab.bsky.social
@fbm-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social
Can we exploit anti-viral immunity to treat brain cancer? 🦠 🧠
Our last results suggest so, go ahead and check the paper if you’re curious! 🤓
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
#Brain_cancer #Glioblastoma #TumorMicroenvironment #RNAsensing #ADAR1
How can we reawaken the body’s own anti-viral defenses to fight brain cancer?
Delighted to share our new study where we now answer this question, led by the brilliant @alvarezprado.bsky.social who is now an independent PI at LIH Luxembourg 👏👏
#BrainTIME 🧠🦠🧪
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Finally, grateful for the support from @fbm-unil.bsky.social ,Agora cancer center, the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, and all funding agencies that made this work possible. 🙏 Their support was key to advancing this glioblastoma study. Congrats to all other co-authors and collaborators!!
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Huge thanks to @johannajoyce.bsky.social for the opportunity to contribute to such a relevant work — my first experimental contribution at Joycelab! 🙏 And to @alvarezprado.bsky.social, grateful to work & learn with you. Best of luck in your new adventure as a PI in Luxembourg! 🍀👏 2/3
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Thrilled to share our new study from @joycelab.bsky.social on glioblastoma, the most aggressive brain tumor. Targeting ADAR1 slows tumor growth & mobilizes the immune system — a step forward for future treatments. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🔗 1/3
04.09.2025 08:06 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0It was our pleasure! Congratulations again on the amazing article!
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🧠 Neuro-immunology is reshaping how we understand the brain - across many diseases, including #cancer
In this research highlight 🧪🔬 we discuss a new study in #Nature by Remsik, Boire et al showing how IFNγ-activated immune cells in the CNS, incl DCs, help constrain leptomeningeal #metastasis
It was a pleasure! Congrats again on your work!
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📄 CNS gatekeepers: IFNγ-activated dendritic cells control leptomeningeal metastasis
Read it here 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#ImmunoOncology #CNS #Metastasis #BoireLab #JoyceLab
Excited to share our research highlight on leptomeningeal metastasis and how IFNγ-activated dendritic cells shape CNS immune control—featuring the latest from @adrienneboire.bsky.social and @meningojan.bsky.social—
A privilege to write this with @johannajoyce.bsky.social at @joycelab.bsky.social 🙏🧠🔬
Celebrating 2️⃣0️⃣ years of the Joyce Lab 🎉
We had an amazing reunion, bringing together past & present lab members from Lausanne & NYC 🏔️🗽
Huge thanks to everyone who came from around the world, shared science & happy memories and together made this milestone really special 😍
#JoyceLab20 #ProudMentor
Wishing our amazing postdoc @lbejarano.bsky.social continued success and happiness - as she leaves us to start her own lab in Spain 🎉🥳
Leire has been one of the most positive, creative, and kind scientists I've had the privilege to mentor - we shall all miss you so much!
#NewPI 🤩
#ProudMentor 😊
On the cover: The blood-brain barrier is a defining feature of brain tumors, shaping their biology and therapeutic response. In this issue, Bejarano et al. use single-cell RNA sequencing and spatial analysis to construct a vascular atlas of primary and metastatic brain tumors, revealing distinct alterations in endothelial and mural cells. Glioblastomas undergo substantial vascular remodeling compared to low-grade gliomas, while brain metastases exhibit even greater permeability and increased immune cell interactions. This unveiling of vascular heterogeneity is depicted as a red pencil coloring in the intricate details of tumor-associated blood vessels within a map of the human brain wherein a tumor is surrounded by diverse immune cells. Image by Joana C. Carvalho.
Excited to see our image on the cover of #Immunity today 🤩
Congrats to the amazing @lbejarano.bsky.social & all authors for our #brain #tumor #vasculature study
www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
Huge 🙏 🙏 to the v talented @joanagcc.bsky.social for creating this super cover 🧠🧪
@cp-immunity.bsky.social
Thrilled to see our vascular atlas across primary and metastatic brain tumors finally out in Immunity! 😍 🍾
Thanks to @johannajoyce.bsky.social for her invaluable mentorship and to all the authors involved! 🎉
How does the #vasculature regulate #immune cell infiltration & function across different brain tumors? 🧠🧪
Excited to share our latest study in #Immunity where we uncover some interesting answers— led by the amazing @lbejarano.bsky.social 🤩👏🏻
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@cp-immunity.bsky.social
www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
Cancer knows no borders, and setbacks in one part of the world can have lasting consequences for #patients everywhere
The #EACR, and all co-signing national #cancer societies & foundations, stand in solidarity and offer our full support to our friends and colleagues in the US
#StandUpForScience 🧪
Lab Christmas dinner
Celebrating the start of the holiday season with our wonderful lab 🎄🎅 🎁
Grateful for this incredible, fun team - and a great year of science together 🤩🙏
Happy holidays!! 🌟🥂❄️🎉
Hi friends 👋
We are a lab of curious researchers - dedicated to understanding and ultimately helping treat cancer
Our lab is led by Johanna Joyce, and we are students, postdocs & technicians from all over the world
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We love doing science 🧪🔬 and living in beautiful Lausanne, Switzerland!
