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A new class of hope is here: #StanDOM's Gabriel Mannis is helping lead the charge with menin inhibitors – newly FDA-approved drugs transforming #leukemia care & rewriting what's possible for patients. https://stanford.io/4o3vi7Y

The origins of tolerance: the 2025 Nobel prize in medicine Talha Burki speaks with Fred Ramsdell, Mary Brunkow, and Shimon Sakaguchi about their Nobel-winning discoveries in peripheral immune tolerance.

#Medsky🧪 #immunosky #publichealth @thelancet.com How the body distinguishes between intruders and its own cells - The origins of tolerance: the 2025 #Nobelprize in #medicine

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Join our community of more than 120 ambitious research programmes in infectious disease, chemical biology, and many other areas of biomedicine - all under one roof with fantastic facilities and support.

Applications for the Crick PhD programme now open. One studentship available in our lab, starting Autumn 2026. Apply!

⚠️ Half of commercial antibodies miss their target!
So how do you pick the right one for your experiment?

Here’s the solution 👉
Antibody characterization data (all tested in KO cells) are now available at:
🔗 onlygoodantibodies.co.uk

Tested by @ycharos.bsky.social & @oga-community.bsky.social

We are looking for a postdoc to study single-cell transcriptional heterogeneity in the human skin microbiome.

We have a new protocol mostly developed, but need someone to see it through. Experience with protocol dev or RNAseq appreciated.

Funded by a new grant from MIT-HEALS.

Yellow and white font on black background with our logo and white and yellow hexagons for interest. Text reads “Black in Immuno Town Hall ‘25. Join us for a town hall to catch up on the present and future of Black in Immuno. We’d love to get input from everyone on how we can best serve the community. Please register for access to the meeting- even if you can’t attend register anyway. We’ll send out a summary of the meeting and ask for further input.”

Hello Bluesky, we’ve finally migrated and look forward to connecting with everyone here!

We’re also having a Town Hall next week. Please register here and share with anyone who may want to reconnect or learn more about our group:
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Our paper made the cover of Nature Immunology’s September issue! 🎉
Aren’t dendritic cells beautiful? 😍
SEM shows pDCs as they switch identity into cDC2-like cells.
Congrats to the whole team! 👏
🔗 www.nature.com/ni/volumes/2...

A single-cell framework identifies functionally and molecularly distinct multipotent progenitors in adult human hematopoiesis Ediriwickrema et al. conducted a systematic evaluation of human bone marrow cells and provide an updated model of adult hematopoiesis, which includes distinct, immunophenotypically defined, multipoten...

New #majetilab publication!

Asiri identifies 3 human MPP subsets from adult bone marrow and evaluates their engraftment + differentiation potential. Bonus: a single-cell multi-omics resource.

Check it out here ➡️ bit.ly/4mFSBEa

@stanforddeptmed.bsky.social @cp-cellreports.bsky.social

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Congrats! Beautiful images!

We are hiring! The Wattrus lab at MGH is seeking talented postdoc applicants to join our group and study differences in regeneration and wound healing across species using fish models. We are a fun group - come and join us! Fishy friends, please spread the word! #zebrafish #medaka #zebrafishjobs

Fellow academics: Have any of you heard about concerns regarding the use of NIH funds to support travel to trainee-focused conferences like SACNAS and ABRCMS (e.g. on an R25 where travel was budgeted)? I have heard indirect rumblings about concerns, but have not gotten any specifics. Thanks!

Science Fellows

Applications are now open for the Stanford Science Fellows postdoctoral program, opportunity to join an exciting community of scholars!

stanfordsciencefellows.stanford.edu

Spread the word - we at @stanford-chemh.bsky.social are searching to fill a new junior faculty at the interface of molecular and computational science. See link below!

Gianna Hammer & @brodskyigorlab.bsky.social are co-organizing the 64th annual Midwinter Conference of Immunologists Jan 24-27, 2026. It's a wonderful meeting with broad topics, incredible speakers, fantastic location & lots of awards for trainees. Can't wait to see you there! www.midwconfimmunol.org

@joyywu.bsky.social has a simple but powerful message for early-career investigators: choose your mentor not your project. "So often we think about selecting research projects based on a topic or field of interest, but great mentorship is priceless and lasts a lifetime.”

This is not just HHMI. All Chan Zuckerberg Initiative funding calls are CLOSED. The Gates Foundation has no Grand Challenges funding opportunities. I've never seen anything like this. Private foundations have just decided to stop supporting biomedical research.

This illustration depicts the changes in the immune system throughout an individual’s life span, from infancy to childhood, adulthood, and older age.

A new special issue of Science explores the immune system at the molecular and cellular level and how it has evolved to govern multiple facets of human health.

Learn more: scim.ag/3IYhnk7

Congrats!!

The NIH budget will INCREASE by $400 million — not slashed by 40%, as Trump proposed — according to a proposal by Senate appropriators, says Sen Murray.

"Some have asked if there will even be an NIH by [2029]. The commmittee's resounding message is yes—Congress has your back", she says.

Macrophages kind of look like gastly (the Pokémon)

Macrophage photo credit: Cell Wiki

How do I cry react to this instead of heart it

Thank you for this psa

Controlled colonization of the human gut with a genetically engineered microbial therapeutic Precision microbiome programming for therapeutic applications is limited by challenges in achieving reproducible colonic colonization. Previously, we created an exclusive niche that we used to engraft...

Engineering the gut microbiome in people with hyperoxaluria to avoid kidney stones
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I love this and am going to start doing it

New research from @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social reveals a gene signature that can predict severe illness before infection even happens. Featuring #StanDOM's Purvesh Khatri. stan.md/4k8qIT9

Anyone have experience with IV mRNA-LNP vaccination in animals? I am specifically interested in LNP formulations and what the preferred formulation for IV is.

New endosomal protein network resource: bit.ly/endomapv1

Importantly, interaction networks are informed by *multiple* proteomic methods to capture interacting proteins and alphafold structural predictions.

Bonus: validation of new interactions in neurons: nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09059-y

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"No one’s Ph.D. journey is the same, and no one deserves to be shamed for how long it takes." #ScienceMagArchives scim.ag/44q2rCg

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