Between experiments, taking or teaching classes, and preparing manuscripts, grad student and postdoc "pathogen hunters" in my lab (here Megan, Consuelo, Siri) + their videographer (Hunter) seem to be having plenty of funโthey don't drink๐ฉธโthey study its innate immune properties
#tameimpala #dracula
Nothing beats being greeted by the day with a sky like this especially on a week full of festivities ๐ @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social @ucsdhealth.bsky.social
A heartfelt see you later to Sydney! ๐ฅน
Congratulations, @ericjordahl.bsky.social !! So well deserved!
Robert Redford (RIP) survived a childhood bout of polio though bedridden for 2 weeks
In 2014, he directed a short film on the architecture and mission of La Jolla's Salk Instituteโhonoring founder Jonas Salk, inventor of the polio vaccine that has saved countless lives, and architect Louis Kahn
public sentiment in favor of an effective vaccine to prevent group a streptoccocal infections (and consequent rheumatic heart disease) seems to be on the rise
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Platelet Factor 4 (PF4) isnโt just a clotting chemokineโin sepsis models, PF4 boosts endothelial bacterial clearance, curbs immunothrombosis & improves survival
Anh Ngo PhD, Gollomp Lab @ UPenn, now on bioRxiv
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Lab Graduation Party for a wonderful scientist and human beingโDr. Lamar Thomasโwho has completed her IRACDA and UCPPFP postdoc and will begin her Asst. Professorship in Biological Sciences at CSU Long Beach!
Her future students will get a gem of a mentor!
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Big tings a gwan!
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A true honor to have such great mentors and community! A milestone achieved through the collective support of fantastic scientists and leaders!
Thank you!!
Thank you!!
Thank you so much for all your support and help in reaching this milestone!
Congratulations to @consweeswee.bsky.social for an incredible thesis defense yesterday!! I'm really excited to have Consuelo join the Nizet lab.
Thank you so much, Elisabet! ๐ Excited to join you in the Nizet lab!
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a โscience fairโ in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
Today felt like a huge hug. Humans supporting Humans ๐ฅน
Massive"No Kings" rally in downtown #SanDiego today, 60K+ showed up including me y'all - there is hope for a better and brighter future!
Cuts to Science w/o Congressional approval have affected research on Alzheimerโs, cancer and substance use and many other studies at institutions across the country, including in red states
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
A great evening celebrating ARCS San Diego Scientist of the Year, Dr. Knight.
Thank you for using your platform to shed light on the critical status of science. Training programs, critical to the upbringing of many great scientists, are at risk impacting the future of knowledge, innovation, & med.
In our first โPostdoc perspectivesโ essay, @fleabrained.bsky.social and @maribel-patino.bsky.social explain how grassroots organizations led by trainees are stepping up to provide career and mentorship guidance for neuroscience students from marginalized backgrounds.
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/4csFx0B
My friends and colleagues spanning the gamut from faculty, administration, postdocs, PhD students, undergrads, and professional research staff showing up in big numbers at UC San Diego to organize, educate, support one another, and most of all:
#StandUpForScience
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Iโm incredibly disappointed in NASEM. It seems that theyโre prepared to forego established science to placate the lawless administration. The membership needs to let their leadership know that they wonโt let politics interfere with science and health.
These are challenging times for science, but I'm happy to share a bright moment: our work is on the cover of Cell today.
We built a compendium of human gut microbiomes integrating 168K worldwide samples, revealing patterns of microbiome variation across the globe
www.cell.com/cell/current...
The NAACP is creating a list of companies that have reaffirmed their commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, and another list of companies that have dialed back support. Letโs all put our spending power behind those that support DEI.
naacp.org/campaigns/bl...
Microbiologists get it
Healthy oceans, forests and grasslands thrive upon mutualistic symbioses among diverse tiny life forms
A diversity of beneficial mirobiota in our guts is critical for our growth, metabolism, development, immunity, and neurological function
Same can apply to human societies
Hey Guys - I Did a Podcast!
Yesterday, talented Harvard undergrad and Broad Institute researcher Shriya Bhat hosted me on โBeyond the Benchโ to discuss immune directed strategies weโre pursuing to combat antimicrobial resistance at the host-pathogen interface
urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
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American Bar Assoc
๐๐ฆ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ข๐ง๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ ๐ด๐ช๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต. ๐๐ฆ ๐ถ๐ณ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ข๐ต๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ซ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ถ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ด๐ช๐ด๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต, ๐ข ๐จ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ, ๐ง๐ฐ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ข๐ธ. ๐๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ค๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ข๐ธ๐บ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด. ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ญ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐บ ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ท๐ช๐ฆ๐ธ๐ด, ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐บ
Yes
how the NIH contributes to the economy in my home state โ
find yours www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
dollars cut is a 2.5x economic return nullified, many good jobs lost, and locally economies and their healthcare weakened
no savings to our country, but rather incredible losses
