Congrats to lab member Karen Hanze Villavicencio for being named the 2024 APS RAPID scholar in Pediatric Infectious Diseases! Karen is a CHOP Infectious Diseases fellow using #metagenomics to understand pneumonia etiology and outcomes in children from Africa.

There's a personal history for me with this major acquisition today.

Incyte (Rich Levy) had the vision at the time (2016) to let me design a very bold #phase2 #clinicaltrial with topical #ruxolitinib which ended up being the first U.S. FDA -approved JAK inhibitor in dermatology…

⁦Ian Cohn⁩ defends his thesis today in front of packed auditorium telling us what he has learned about immunity to Cryptosporidium, ⁦Penn Microbiology⁩ We could not have been prouder! ⁦Boris Striepen⁩

Not science themed but I really like the way this turned out 🌵

Ian Cohn from the Hunter ChrisHunter and Striepen Boris Striepen labs defends tomorrow!

Good job Kate MacNamara and not a mention of Innate training! What an interesting study on ability of sepsis to cause long term disruption of the hematopoietic system.

Well, well ,well one for International Cytokine & Interferon Society (ICIS) biologists. Structure of the interleukin-5 receptor complex exemplifies the organi... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

ChrisHunter Elon Musk Taylor Swift Don Vinh Dr. Shabaana A. Khader Kathryn Else Andrea L Graham Grencisgroup Sebastian Lourido Bill Sullivan Dr. Emma Wilson Benedict Chambers Dr. Adriana Forero I have a feeling I know what’s behind these brazen Bracket manipulations…nature.com/articles/s4200…

Somehow this was predicted by TeamToxo’s holiday door decoration. But was it really “our” choice?

Let's rip the band aid off the brackets. Good try Trichuris, but with no media giants to support came up short and Toxoplasma emerges as champ. An underdog from the start but grit and popular acclaim from Elon Musk and Taylor Swift sees it through. You are all very welcome!

ChrisHunter Alex Ensminger Joe Zackular CannaLab Kellie Ann Jurado Cadwell Lab Don Vinh British Society for Parasitology Grencisgroup Sebastian Lourido Bill Sullivan Out and about in Manchester promoting the worm! Macaulay Turner Grencisgroup

ChrisHunter Jeffrey Mold Mike Famulare I advocated for Vibrio cholerae on the basis of a litres-of-diarrhoea index, and the role of related species in this symbiosis, but we all I know now the influence of Big Cytokine Industry in skewing the results to other less-deserving entries.

ChrisHunter Alex Ensminger Kathryn Else Joe Zackular CannaLab Kellie Ann Jurado Cadwell Lab Don Vinh British Society for Parasitology Grencisgroup Sebastian Lourido Bill Sullivan Anyone surprised that Toxo is in the finals? Not me…

Still a small number of places left and opportunities for late-breaking posters....

Multi-cytokine Th9 cells that drive allergic airway diseases are primed by TL1A in this work from Mark Kaplan Mark Kaplan and colleagues:
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Final : Toxo vs Trichuris Dr. Adriana Forero this is what Jack Dowling (an EBV enthusiast) looks like when they found out his class has voted EBV off the island and that a worm is in the final: betrayed dazed, confused Penn Microbiology Cadwell Lab Png Loke

Plucky Alex Ensminger out to Trichuris while Toxo moves past viral fave. For the 4 people who might still be engaged Kathryn Else Joe Zackular CannaLab Kellie Ann Jurado Cadwell Lab Don Vinh

The Triangle, NC is a great place to be!

1/2 For those not already here, the Triangle is Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill + Cary, Morrisville, Carrboro, Hillsborough.
2 body problem? See 2/2

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Trichuris dedicated its evolutionary path to embody the shape of a whip.
I can’t help but applaud its determination to win this fight.

ChrisHunter Alex Ensminger Grencisgroup Dr. Sunny Shin Dr. Amanda M Jamieson @amandamjamieson.bsky.social Massive support for the worm at the British Society for Parasitology!