Associate Professor @DukeUniversity - Interested in transcriptional regulation, autoimmunity, innate and adaptive lymphocyte lineage commitment and plasticity.
Durham, NC
Joined May 2019
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Congratulations to our very own Naren Mehta for being granted an NIH F31 fellowship! So very well-deserved!
Well done Naren! Looking forward to all the cool stuff you will learn about type 3 lymphocytes. immunobiology.duke.edu
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To help stem the autoimmune progression of #MultipleSclerosis, new research in mouse models of the disease suggests targeting integrin α3, which is selectively expressed by pathogenic Th17 cells. @MariaCiofani @DukeUniversity
📄: scim.ag/4tu
Excited to share our recent publication in @SciImmunology identifying integrin α3 as a critical determinant of Th17 cell-mediated neuroinflammation. Congratulations to former student and lead author Eunchong Park! science.org/doi/10.1126/scii…
Congratulations to the new Dr Eunchong Park for an amazing PhD defense! So proud of him and excited for his future! 🥳🎓
Congratulations to our newly minted Dr. Morgan Parker who defended her thesis today! I'm so proud of her accomplishments and thank you her for all of her great contributions to the lab over the years. Looking forward to her bright future! 🍾🎓
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I was so fortunate to have Pam Ohashi as a member of my thesis committee so many years ago—a role model for me then and now.
On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we are celebrating the powerful role that women and girls play as leaders in STEM by sharing the stories of three talented women scientists at @pmcancercentre➡️thepmcf.ca/media-supporter-s…
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This is an important step forward, but NIH will need to support this policy by funding effort for data managers. If not, it will just place additional strain on labs that are already trying to stretch their grant funding.
1) On January 25th 2023 a new data sharing policy from NIH kicks in which basically requires raw data from NIH-funded studies to be shared. Data is defined as:
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Happy New Year! Hoping 2022 is filled with many special sacred moments that bring joy and gratitude. Cheers to all!
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Our new preprint introducing scCUT&Tag-pro (single-cell profiling of histone modifications and cell surface proteins), scChromHMM (inferring chromatin states in single cells), and an integrated reference of 9 molecular modalities in human PBMC: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Thank you for sharing @TrowbridgeLab! This is very exciting news for everyone who currently uses the CD45.1 congenic strain!
Attention hematology/immunology colleagues: JAX is now offering an improved model for bone marrow transplant/cell transfer studies - JAXBoy CD45.1! jax.org/strain/033076 This isogenic strain is a more precise version of the congenic PepBoy/J CD45.1 model. Check it out!
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Really exciting new mouse tools for in vivo epigenome editing from @cgersbach and collaborators. Congrats to Matt Gemberling and @siklenkak. Happy to have been involved in this project and thank you to @cgersbach for making the mice available!
We're very happy to see this published with the hope that others will be able to use these models to study function and regulation of their favorite genes and noncoding elements. Mice are available at Jax: jax.org/strain/033066 jax.org/strain/033065
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Now online! Polyamine metabolism is a central determinant of helper T cell lineage fidelity dlvr.it/S2zplc
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Excited with the new #globalimmuno program for the rest of 2021!
Please mark your calendars and help us distribute it 👇
#immunology #AAI #ILC2021 @CytokineSociety @ASImmunology @FAISAfrica @EFIS_Immunology @iuis_online @SocLatAlergia
Dear Global Immuno Colleagues, we look forward to reconnecting in August. Here is our new @globalimmuno program! Special thanks to our colleagues that have accepted to present in this forum!
We are hiring! Two postdoc positions available immediately in genetic networks of CD4 T cell pathogenicity in MS and IBD. @DukeCAGT @DukeMedSchool careers.duke.edu/s/Ipu5Nn
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Looking for a great lab for your postdoctoral training? We are hiring! Two postdoc positions available immediately in regulatory networks of CD4 T cell plasticity or autoimmunity (MS/IBD). Check it out: careers.duke.edu/s/Ipu5Nn
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We are delighted to announce the new organizers and speakers for the 2021 #globalimmuno talks 👇
Updates (including titles) will be posted here: labs.biology.ucsd.edu/zuniga…
For notifications on recorded talks pls subscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/c/GLOBALIMMUNOTA…
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Interesting data from @JSheltzer and @joans related to gender and postdoctoral training --> Assistant PI trajectory. Thank you for sharing!
.@joans and I previously collected data on life science career trajectories.
From a dataset of 275 assistant profs: 12% of female APs and 15% of male APs did postdocs with female PI’s. Disappointingly small fractions but not significantly different between men and women.
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Congratulations Morgan Parker, a star graduate trainee in my lab who was awarded the prestigious Chancellor's Award for Research Excellence at Duke University! Very well deserved! So proud of her! 👩🔬🏆
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