Congrats to Heran Darwin, PhD, a huge honor for a great scientist and a great person too!

🎉 Exciting News! 🌟

Today, HHMI has launched a nationwide competition to select up to 30 early career science faculty to join the 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program cohort.

Read more on how to apply: hhmi.news/4bAey2m #FHScholars

Midwinter Conference of Immunology 2024 Midwinter Conference of Immunologists iconic beach bonfire. Wish you were here? Plan on it for 2025!

My friend Matt Baker was on Penn and Teller’s show “Fool Us” with an awesome magic trick. Spoiler alert: he didn’t fool them, but I have no idea how he did it! Anyone have any suggestions??? youtu.be/hOCt8ewYhZk

Dmitri's paper identifying the cellular mechanisms underlying type I IFN-driven susceptibility to tuberculosis is now published in a peer-reviewed journal. Congrats Dmitri Kotov and our many fantastic collaborators! authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S00…

couldn't have said it better myself

We are recruiting a postdoc to bring their excitement, ideas, and expertise to our team to pursue several aspects of effector-triggered immunity in animals - from evolution to mechanisms and the role of ETI in host defense and disease.

Job ad 👇
hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External…

So proud of my former student Katie Deets (Katie), one of the most fearless scientists I know, for being awarded a Hanna Gray fellowship (mentored by the inimitable Nels Elde (@ElEarlyBird). Congrats Katie!

Amazed to discover this old photo of Elon Musk from when we were together at Queen's University circa 1990. That is me reflected in his left lens, taking the photo, and my friend Brett House (he/him) reflected in his right lens. I don't actually remember meeting Elon, but I must have!

At long last! The Aldehyde Hypothesis has been tested! 1/8 Disruption of Aldehyde Dehydrogenase 2 protects against bacterial infection biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congratulations to Jessie Jessie Kulsuptrakul, my current PhD student Elizabeth Turcotte (@turcotteea), and former postdoc Patrick Mitchell (@psmitchej) on this *important* collaborative work with Michael Emerman. Effector-triggered immunity is everywhere...

Interested in infectious disease and evolution? This will be a great meeting!
biologists.com/meetings/dmmin…