Taia Wang Laboratory

Tertiary lymphoid structures support the development of allergen-specific progenitor CD4+ T cells Tissue-resident memory CD4+ T cells (TRM) are key sentinels of the adaptive immune response that provide a rapid, robust inflammatory response upon reactivation in non-lymphoid tissues. While CD4+ TRM...

Asthma is a chronic disease characterized by acute, intermittent, recurrent episodes of airway inflammation. A decade of work developing the tools, techniques and collaborations needed to figure out how CD4+ T cells in the lungs propagate disease can be found here:
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Congratulations to the great Kanta Subbarao—the unanimous choice of the awards committee to receive the Edward Jenner Award! Nobody is more deserving for her contributions to developing vaccines for bird flu & other emerging respiratory pathogens. #19vaccinecongress

Elle Cordova! 🌟

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Our friends and colleagues in Minnesota experienced an unbearable loss today. Our hearts are with them ❤️💔

Various missing pet posters with contact info

If you’ve seen any of these pets in Evanston, here’s some info to help them get home. ❤️❤️

Assistant professors studying immunity to infectious disease - don’t miss this opportunity! The BWF PATH program supports innovative research on molecular and/or systemic mechanisms that influence outcomes of pathogen exposure.

@bwfund.bsky.social

Learn more & apply: www.bwfund.org/funding-oppo...

Hallmarks of stem cell aging As organisms age, somatic stem cells progressively lose their ability to sustain tissue homeostasis and support regeneration. Although stem cells are …

Excited to share our review on Hallmark of Stem Cell Aging! With Tom Rando and Peggy Goodell @goodell-lab.bsky.social!!

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Congratulations to our brilliant friend and colleague Christopher Barnes @cobarnes27.bsky.social for being awarded a 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholar award. 🌟🥂

We are #hiring! Please help share!

Postdoc in #Immunology; B-cell biology

We are recruiting a postdoc to lead projects on human B cells and plasma cells funded by the Gates Foundation and the NIH (The position is fully funded and not dependent on future grants).

ghosnlab.science/join-us

We have two new positions, a PhD and a Post doc at #InstituteofBiologyLeiden within our @microclockerc.bsky.social #ERCSyG project to discover interaction of #circadianclocks between Bacillus subtilis and Arabidopsis

please share these with your network! 🙏

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Now open - LOIs for the Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH) program. Deadline is July 17 @ 3pm ET.
More information here:
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#bwfpath #GrantOpportunity

Federal investment in UC research Federal funds are the university’s single most important source of support for research, accounting for more than half of UC’s total research awards. Many of California’s leading industries grew from UC research, including biotechnology, computing, semiconductors, telecommunications and agriculture. Providing health care at UC University of California Health (UC Health) is one of the nation’s largest public academic health systems, serving as a critical part of the California safety net. UC trains approximately 36% of the medical residents in California

The university of California is a powerhouse of innovation, healthcare, and social mobility for California and the US.

🦟 Join us at the #VosshallLab @RockefellerUniv
and @HHMI as a postdoctoral scientist! We're seeking a creative individual who is enthusiastic about our research in mosquito neurogenetics.
Apply: hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

Some of our 2025 cool science>

An amazing opportunities on my team at #VertexPharmaceuticals I’m looking for a Director in Chemistry Technology for research and preclinical #Chemsky #Chemistry #IT #Data www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42... coming soon is another director level role in #HPC and data @chemjobber.bsky.social

Opinion | Universities and the government: Which needs the other more? From public health to high-tech innovation, universities are the workhorses of national progress.

Universities are not passive beneficiaries of government largesse. It is the federal government that depends on universities to conduct the research that keeps our nation healthy, safe and economically competitive.I discuss in the Washington Post.
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Opinion: One-size-fits-all placebo rule would slow Bay Area vaccine updates A pending Department of Health and Human Services regulation risks harming public health and stalling innovation.

My op-ed in the Mercury News:

A proposed HHS rule would delay vaccine updates and stall innovation by forcing unnecessary placebo trials.

It’s bad science — and worse public health.

@mercurynews.com
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🧠Job Opening!🧠

We are opening 2️⃣! positions
– bioinformatics / molecular biology –
in a project studying how temporal patterns set up connectivity in human brain tissue.
@institutimagine.bsky.social.

Full details below, contact me for details if interested.
And please retweet (re-bluesky?)!

YouTube video by Sen. Adam Schiff A Message to Scientists

Science is under attack. The NIH, the NSF, and our research universities.

So today, I have a message for America's scientists:

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Infections cause everything Another reason why RFK Jrs. MAHA plan is misguided

Excellent piece by @julieparsonnet.bsky.social on infectious diseases as root causes of a number of chronic human diseases; pausing research on bacterial and viral infections will limit efforts to cure neurodegeneration, autoimmune, metabolic disease as well as cancer

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Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

The very exciting aspect is that there’s still so much important biology to discover here.

As a person in this area who has done a deep dive into both neutralizing antibody biology (Fc- independent) and Fc- dependent functions, I say this without hesitation.

HHMI is hiring for 3 new positions!

Individual job details below!👇

#ScienceJobs #AcademicSky
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Update to https://scienceimpacts.org to include terminated grants

Major update to #SCIMaP visualization of impacts of cuts to federally supported health research. Map now includes information on future economic losses (impact of proposed reduction of NIH IDC to 15%) and current economic losses (impact of terminated NIH grants).

scienceimpacts.org

YouTube video by Amanpour and Company Breakthrough Prize-Winning Biochemist on the Deadly Cost of Funding Cuts | Amanpour and Company

David Liu @harvard.edu beautifully articulates the criticality of basic science funding for developing revolutionary therapeutics like life-saving base editors 👏

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Please speak up now! This proposal will destroy science. NIH program officers are the unsung heroes of medical research. Their deep expertise and behind-the-scenes leadership have guided the field for decades, helping to drive the breakthroughs that improve and save lives every day.

The Sengupta lab is seeking research technicians to join its team. Ideal candidates must possess a passion for research and exceptional communication skills. Both early-career and experienced candidates are welcome. Email SenguptaS@chop.edu with CV and letter of interest with goals and expectations.

A photograph of Louis Bamberger, seated on the right, wearing a mustache and bowler hat, and his sister Caroline Bamberger Fuld, standing on the left, wearing a fur hat and shawl

Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey.

They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵

If you’re a scientist who values strong institutional support, join us! The GMI is currently hiring new Group Leader positions, including a Junior Group Leader to lead an independent research group addressing fundamental questions in molecular plant biology. Links below.