Michael Silverman

Congratulations Luc!

Scripps Research professor awarded $3.2 million to advance type 1 diabetes research

Scripps Research Prof. Luc Teyton has received a $3.2M grant from the NIDDK to study how VAFs—rare pancreatic cells involved in antigen presentation—may contribute to type 1 diabetes. In collaboration with Asst. Prof. Joseph Jardine, the team will examine how inflammation disrupts immune tolerance.

Nobel Prize winner Mary Brunkow on immune system research Mary Brunkow was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi, for their "groundbreaking discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance tha...

Great primer from #NobelPrize winner Dr. Mary Brunkow on @npr.org's Here & Now: how FOXP3 and T regs help keep the immune system from harming the body. (~6 min) @wbur.org
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Immunization against respiratory syncytial virus delivered to infants following birth is safe and provides high antibody levels, regardless of the mother’s RSV vaccination status, according to new research presented at #IDWeek2025. bit.ly/3J9fIbS

All Democrats want is to lower health care costs for Americans. Republicans in Congress won’t even come to the table.

How out of touch are they that they can't see we are in a health care crisis?

Excited to see this study! Congratulations Kyle Ceylon and all the authors!

Distinguishing diet- and microbe-derived metabolites in the human gut - Microbiome Background Human gut microbes metabolize food and host secretions, consuming and producing small molecules that are important to health and homeostasis. Here, we present an atlas of diet- and microbio...

Looks interesting 👀: Distinguishing diet- and microbe-derived metabolites in the human gut microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

No kings!!!

Philly #nokings

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

Great #NoKings protest turnout in Missoula, Montana! ✊

Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment With the decision, Penn becomes the third university to decline the offer.

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Congratulations Amanda!!!!

Thrilled to share my promotion to Associate Professor with tenure at @pitt-immunology.bsky.social! Huge thanks to my incredible lab, collaborators, department, colleagues, family & friends. Science is a team effort, and I'm so proud of our work & excited for what's next! Stay tuned!

Huge congratulations not only to the team leaders, but all the students, technicians and expert scientists who did the work that underpins this discovery. Their work, and the work of those following in their footsteps, is changing the future for autoimmune, transplant and oncology patients!

Microbiota-derived inosine programs protective CD8+ T cell responses against influenza in newborns Stevens et al. reveal that antibiotic-induced microbiome disruption impairs infant antiviral immunity by reducing inosine levels, which disturbs CD8+ T cell programming. Remarkably, Bifidobacterium co...

Congrats, @immunojake.bsky.social & Erica Culberson DeshmukhLab @cincyresearch.bsky.social
Antibiotic-induced microbiome disruption impairs infant antiviral immunity by reducing inosine levels to disturb CD8 T programming
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@cellcellpress.bsky.social

New commentary co-authored w/ collaborators Liat Shenhav & Mike Silverman 🧪🤱🏻

We are intrigued by weaning:
- How does it affect the infant #microbiome? Immune development?
- Is it the stopping of milk, or the starting of other foods that drives these processes?

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Interaction between breast milk antibodies and gut microbes shape immune responses during weaning @science.org
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Congratulations!!!! Well deserved!
Tregs rock!

The whole Molecular Mucosal Immunology group is very excited to be part of the BIIE! This solidifies the Oxford-Switzerland collaboration that defines my group and provides the support and environment we need to get our ideas out into the world! Those gut pathogens had better watch out 😉🧪🧫🔬

Dr. Meghan Koch from @fredhutch.org has discovered a biological mechanism sprung in the first week of life that trains a mouse pup’s #ImmuneSystem to tolerate harmless gut bugs and new foods.

⚗️ Abstract: https://bit.ly/4nt6qGh
📰 Press release: https://bit.ly/46N7vBY

I'm having this surreal realization that standing up for evidence and data has become a politically polarizing position, and I don't know what to do about that.

It’s #MucosalMonday! 🎙️ A new episode of the Mucosal Immunology podcast drops next Monday, Sept 29. Until then, catch up with “Timing Exposure to Microbes” featuring Dr. Michael Silverman, brought to you by SMI and @mucosalimmunol.bsky.social

Listen here -> bit.ly/4lxNC7F

Thanks so much! So glad to hear.

Kudos for @lizgreenspan.bsky.social

I’ve spent a good chunk of my career relying on American science and engineering to keep me alive. Yesterday, RFK Jr. testified at the U.S. Senate Finance Committee. It was sad to see him try to destroy the life’s work of so many American scientists. He shouldn’t be in this job.

Denmark close to wiping out leading cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out A nationwide study suggests infections with human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18 have been virtually eliminated since vaccination began in 2008 – protecting even unvaccinated women.

I am here to say vaccines are awesome because guess what Denmark is close to completely eliminating the two most dangerous HPV strains (serotype 16 and 18) and with the cervical cancer.I think that is bloody AMAZING!!!!
bit.ly/4pbHxjT

Come and be my colleague at the Dunn School! It‘s a brilliant place to work and exciting to be building up our immunology team. Do apply. Do pass on the news 💉🧬🦠🔬🧫

The gut microbiota directs vitamin A flux to regulate intestinal T cell development @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
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Congratulations Kazuki!!!