The Irving Institute @Dartmouth is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Energy & Society. A 2-year fellowship focused on accelerating an affordable, reliable, & equitable clean energy transition for the benefit of society. Diverse disciplines are encouraged to apply:
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🎉🍾 Congratulations to the newly minted Dr. Madeleine Grau, an @mcbdartmouth.bsky.social PhD student, who successful defended her thesis on the role of iron in the initiation of influenza-associated pulmonary aspergillosis (IAPA).
Out Now! Chikungunya virus persists in joint-associated macrophages and promotes chronic disease in mice #MicroSky
💥Our latest @embojournal.org on membrane damage and repair. Di @dichen02.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk found that calcium is a conserved signal for ATG8/LC3 lipidation on membranes using novel probes to record calcium leakage. Congratulations Di et al!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
www.journalofinfection.com/article/S016... 🚨🚨🍄🍄 new research from Washington University Mycoses Group (WUMG) reveals that Invasive aspergillosis & mucormycosis show broad geographic distribution across the U.S. Regions with higher incidence report lower associated mortality. @fungaldoc.bsky.social
Picture of Dr. Felicia Goodrum, winner of the ASV Wolfgang and Patricia Joklik Distinguished Service Award.
ASV congratulates Dr. Felicia Goodrum, the 2026 Wolfgang and Patricia Joklik Distinguished Service Awardee. Thank you very much for your many years of service to ASV, Dr. Goodrum!
Very happy to see this out! Great work by @lockwop.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk and first paper on NTMs from the lab! Parise made a set of 12 fluorescently labelled NTMs covering environmental and opportunistic mycobacteria...
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So proud of the oldest. Last year he would even try out for a flute solo in his concert band … yesterday he performed the national anthem at the VT D2 Girls Basketball State Championship. Thanks to all that have pushed him out of his comfort zone and supported him by getting these opportunities!!
🤩 MCB Faculty Soni @lacefieldlab.bsky.social was honored with the Ira Herskowitz Award from @genetics-gsa.bsky.social! This prestigious award recognizes “outstanding contributions in the field of yeast research in the last 20 years.” Kudos!
genetics-gsa.org/yeast-2026/i...
By screening viral proteins’ effects on human cells, researchers in Science discover that immune cells can detect infections not only by recognizing pathogens directly, but also by sensing the damage caused by viral attack. https://scim.ag/3Op26LI
The Micro & Immuno Dept at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth ranked in the top 10 of M&I departments in NIH funding last year. Go us!
Two Harvard economists forecast the impact of the administration’s proposed NIH budget cuts- stunning losses in new therapies, life expectancy, and economic output with a “social cost 16 times greater than the savings the administration is attempting to achieve."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
‘Cell type–specific efferocytosis determines functional plasticity of alveolar macrophages’
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Interesting preprint looking at the role of MAVS in maintaining mitochondrial health!
🤖 The middle kid’s FIRST Lego Robotics team had the opportunity to compete at the FIRST Robotics World Championship last week in Houston. He had a blast. Great work making their kids. 🤖
🚨 Updated preprint for our first manuscript with
@aolive.bsky.social looking at why alveolar macrophages drive strong type I IFN responses after TLR2 activation; we uncovered a surprising role for and mitochondria ROS and MAVS signaling - find out more here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Excited to share our latest study
@cp-immunity.bsky.social. Heartfelt thanks to the editorial and review teams , to my co-first @yeungadventures.bsky.social, our co-authors, and to @khannakm.bsky.social
for his outstanding mentorship throughout! Pls read/share!👇
www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
Excited to share that our story on S. aureus antagonism by Malassezia is live today in Current Biology! The paper has changed a lot since the preprint with the very exciting addition of having identified the antimicrobial effector generated by M. sympodialis.
authors.elsevier.com/c/1kwzj3QW8S...
Last week Alex Rapp successfully defended his PhD thesis on the role of mycoviruses in Aspergillus regulating antifungal immunity.
Cool paper!!
We are thrilled to share our new manuscript @science.org , in which we uncovers a critical role for macrophage peroxisomes in lung repair after viral infection. Could targeting peroxisomes be the key to mitigating long COVID?! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
graphic depicts that lung alveolar macrophages loss of peroxisome drives the process
Just published @science.org
A basis—lung inflammation—for #LongCovid (PASC) in the experimental model, and a potential therapy
[driven by alveolar macrophages and loss of their peroxisomes (Figure)]
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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By @katherinejwu.com
"The NIH... supported 99 percent of the drugs approved in the U.S. from 2010 to 2019. The agency has had a hand in “nearly all of our major medical breakthroughs over the past several decades,”
The NIH is in a struggle for its (and our) lives. This is existential to America:
Very interesting read …
Happy to have contributed to this exciting paper from Dr Yina Huang’s laboratory. Congratulations to her lab and everyone involved!
NIH funding creates medicines, jobs and economic growth
Excited to share our latest preprint! We find that DCs undergo heterogeneous cell death- either pyroptosis or apoptosis upon bacterial blockade of host translation- to restrict Legionella infection. Congrats to my PhD student @vvazquez.bsky.social & co-authors! Check out his bluetorial 🧵 below! 👇
