@kevinnickerson.bsky.social
Research Assistant Professor at Pitt Immunology. B cells in SLE.
Thank you, this is amazing!
01.12.2025 21:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Graphic with headshots of Greg Delgoffe, Dario Vignali, Simon Watkins and Sally Wenzel announcing that they are on the 2025 Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers list.
Congratulations to @vignalilab.bsky.social, @delgoffelab.bsky.social, Sally Wenzel and Simon Watkins for making the #Clarivate #HighlyCited2025 list, recognizing their broad and significant influence in their fields! clarivate.com/highly-cited...
13.11.2025 16:05 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Behind the Scenes: Dr. Mark Shlomchik and Dr. Sebastien Gingras of @pitt-immunology.bsky.social discuss data that led to the discovery that divergent signaling domains in TLR7 and TLR9 control their opposing effects on lupus.
11.11.2025 14:02 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Eight microscopy images of B cell endosomes, which appear as colorful spheres, showing that chimeric TLR receptors made of TLR7 recognition elements with TLR9 signaling domains are localized in endosomes.
Mark Shlomchik and and his team have solved a 20-year #lupus mystery! In a new @jci.org paper, they show that TLR7 & TLR9 receptors signal differently, overturning textbook assumptions & explaining their opposite effects on #autoimmune disease. lnkd.in/extqYBYR
04.11.2025 15:11 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Screencap of the header page of JCI's pdf of our new paper "Divergent TIR signaling domains in TLR7 and TLR9 control opposing effects on systemic autoimmunity" in which the first, last and second-to-last (me!) authors are listed but not several of our coauthors.
The complete list of authors for our paper from the JCI website's html page for the article.
I genuinely don't like it when a reference elides the full list of authors, as happened here on the header page of the pdf version, but I guess I made the cut. 😂
Congrats, Claire, on figuring out this quite complicated story that has puzzled us for many many years!
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The Center for Systems Immunology at the University of Pittsburgh is recruiting at the Assistant Professor level. See below for more information. Please repost! cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
16.10.2025 14:28 — 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0As an undergrad, one of my first lab experiences was doing 33P-labelled DNA sequencing, on an extremely tall and fragile polyacrylamide gel, which then had to be dried onto Whatman paper, imaged on a phosphoimager, and manually read.
Anyway I just submitted samples for sequencing at $3 a pop.
I did not click on the link in the email about the mandatory security training, I navigated to it through the campus website.
I think this should give me an automatic pass and exempt me from the 20 minute training video.
