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Adriana Forero

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🇨🇴🏳️‍🌈 | Cytokine Enthusiast | Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University MII

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Adriana Forero @adforu.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Congratulations to the new awardees!! 🌟🔬🧪
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BWF Announces the 2026 Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease - Burroughs Wellcome Fund
DURHAM, N.C. – The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH) awards, recognizing assistant professor-leve...
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Patrick R. Secor @prsecor.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Friends, please help spread the word about our microbiology REU program at Montana State University. www.montana.edu/mbi/reu/ Each student receives a stipend ($7000 for 10 wks). Travel compensation, room, and board are also provided. Details in the attached pic--Feb 14 deadline 🧫🧪🦠#microsky
This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program is funded by the National Science Foundation to create "points of entry" for students interested in research. Students apply from across the country to spend 10 weeks in Bozeman, Montana this summer (May 26, 2026 - August 1, 2026). Admitted students are paired with a faculty mentor, who serves as an advisor for a student's summer project. Each student receives a stipend ($7000 for 10 wks). Travel compensation, room, and board are also provided.

Our program leverages MSU’s unique microbiology expertise, focusing specifically on microbes living with little or no oxygen (like those in the hot springs of nearby Yellowstone). Low oxygen microbes are essential to human and ecosystem health. They influence (or control) such processes as the breakdown of food in the GI tract, removal of toxins from our bodies and the environment, and production of greenhouse gases. They are also models for understanding the origins of life on this planet, and the potential for life on other planets.

A key goal of our program is to recruit students from schools with limited research infrastructure. Being in Montana, a state with a vibrant Native American community, we are particularly interested in applications from students at tribal colleges. However, ANYONE with an interest in microbiology - or biology/science in general - can and should apply.

If willing and able, please share/tweet/spread the word far and wide. Applications are due February 14, 2026. Full details can be found through our website http://www.montana.edu/mbi/reu/
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Integrating polygenic signals and single-cell multiomics identifies cell-type-specific regulomes critical for immune- and aging-related diseases @nataging.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Aiolos restricts generation of antigen-inexperienced, virtual memory CD8+ T cells in mice by repressing Eomes & CD122 expression @natcomms.nature.com @osuwexmed.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Adriana Forero @adforu.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Truly the best crew. Grateful for and proud of everything we’ve done together. Here’s to the next five years! 🥂🎄🎅🏽
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Joe Zackular @joeyzacks.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Registration is now open for @keystonesymposia.bsky.social "Beyond #Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection." Deadline for scholarships and abstract selected short talks is Jan 7! Join us this May for an amazing meeting! keysym.us/KSBeyondAntibiotics26 #KSBeyondAntibiotics26
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Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies for Combating Bacterial Infection | Keystone Symposia
Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies for Combating Bacterial Infection, May 2026, in Breckenridge, with field leaders!
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Science Magazine @science.org · 19/11/2025
A new #ScienceSignaling study reveals how salivary glands respond and regenerate after they are damaged by radiation from either proton or photon therapy, which could guide future efforts to promote salivary gland recovery. scim.ag/4oMc8DU
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IFN-I signaling enhances salivary gland stem and progenitor cell activity after irradiation
Regenerative responses in salivary gland organoids after irradiation are mediated by IFN-I signaling.
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Adriana Forero @adforu.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Feeling truly energized after an amazing scientific exchange. Grateful for the connections and insights. Can’t wait to come back to the next edition. @amersocvirology.bsky.social folks, this is definitely one to keep on your radar!
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Adriana Forero @adforu.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The Colombian and Latin American Symposium in Virology has started. Stoked to spend the next three days learning more about the region’s important contributions to the field.
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Adriana Forero @adforu.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The BWF New Awardee meeting has been so inspirational. The stories and passion shared are a powerful reminder of the impact we can all make in science. Super stoked to be part of this awesome PATH cohort!
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Adriana Forero @adforu.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Celebrating Brutus’ birthday with the lab and breaking a World Record. #Buckeyesbelong
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Ryan Langlois @langloislab.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Excited to announce that we have a new faculty search opening in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Minnesota for a tenure track Assistant Professor in RNA Virology. More info can be found here: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/365...
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Careers
Minimum qualifications:PhD, MD, or equivalent in a relevant field of study, plus applicable postdoctoral experience.
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Journal of Experimental Medicine @jem.org · 09/10/2025
Idorn, Paludan et al. @au.dk characterize a mouse strain harboring a mutation found in a herpes simplex encephalitis patient. Defective IFN-driven antiviral responses led to hyperactivation of #inflammation, contributing to disease development. rupress.org/jem/article/... @civia-aarhus.bsky.social
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Erin Green @erinrgreen.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Job alert ‼️ UChicago Micro is hiring! Open to tenured/tenure track faculty at all levels in any area of microbiology. Come join our amazing and growing department. apply.interfolio.com/174404
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Adriana Forero @adforu.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
We are currently in the process of recruiting a technician. 🥼🐭🔬 If you know anyone with enthusiasm to learn new skills and stamina to hear me go on and on about IFNs, please have them reach out to me for more details!
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Adriana Forero @adforu.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Midwest Virology Symposium was amazing. Strong Ohio representation from friends at OSU and Cleveland Clinic 📸. Huge thanks to colleagues at the University of Kentucky for being generous hosts and putting together a fantastic program to showcase our trainees’ work. #MidwestVirology #MVS
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Adriana Forero @adforu.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Hey friends, it’s Ride Day! I’m pedaling with purpose for Pelotonia to end cancer. Every mile counts and so does your support. 🚴🏼‍♂️ #onegoal www.pelotonia.org/profile/AF74...
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Pelotonia | Profile
Pelotonia is a community that is determined to see an end to cancer. Together, we've saved countless lives. Help us save more.
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Adriana Forero @adforu.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
10 years ago, SCOTUS made a landmark decision to extend marriage rights and allowed me to finally say yes to a life together with a wonderful human evening. She rocks my world! #anniversary
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Sorek Lab @soreklab.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
We wrote a review on the free nucleotide pool as a central playground in human, bacterial, and plant immunity – now out in Nature Reviews in Immunology www.nature.com/articles/s41... Was fun to write this piece with Dina Hochhauser! Here is a thread to explain the premises 1/
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Manipulation of the nucleotide pool in human, bacterial and plant immunity - Nature Reviews Immunology
Modification of the nucleotide pool is emerging as key to innate immunity in animals, plants and bacteria. This Review explains how immune pathways conserved from bacteria to humans manipulate the nuc...
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NPR @npr.org · 19/07/2025
Callers to 988 used to be able to press 3 to reach counselors specially trained to help LGBTQ+ young people. The service had been reaching 70,000 people a month.
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Trump administration ends 988 Lifeline's special service for LGBTQ+ young people
Callers to 988 used to be able to press 3 to reach counselors specially trained to help LGBTQ+ young people. The service had been reaching 70,000 people a month.
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Adriana Forero @adforu.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
On our way to Montreal for #ASV2025. Make sure to come check out Matt’s (@mattmcfa17.bsky.social) work during W22-6. Can’t wait to see you all! @amersocvirology.bsky.social
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Adriana Forero @adforu.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
One of Ohio’s finest sons. Thank you for your service and contributions to the field!
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Adriana Forero @adforu.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The reading list keeps growing!!!
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Adriana Forero @adforu.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
📄🧫🔬🐭What are you reading this weekend? Check out @catmphelps.bsky.social, @meisellab.bsky.social, et al’s brand new work! #H2P
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Michael Glickman @michaelglickman.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Please apply!
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Adriana Forero @adforu.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Real Kings value higher learning. Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia, founded Univerzita Karlova in Prague in 1348. This is the alma mater of many great minds including physiologist Jan Purkyně (Purkinje). His microscope is on display at the National Museum in Prague.
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Burroughs Wellcome Fund @bwfund.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
From UGA Research News - Kurup wins prestigious PATH award for groundbreaking malaria research research.uga.edu/news/kurup-w... #bwfpath
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Kurup wins prestigious PATH award for groundbreaking malaria research - UGA Research News
Every year, malaria evades the immune defenses of nearly 250 million people. But Samarchith “Sam” Kurup is determined to outsmart the parasite before it strikes. Now, with the Burroughs Wellcome…
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Burroughs Wellcome Fund @bwfund.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Now open - LOIs for the Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH) program. Deadline is July 17 @ 3pm ET. More information here: buff.ly/iSu3v60 #bwfpath #GrantOpportunity
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The American Association of Immunologists @aai.org · 02/06/2025
Proposed cuts to NIH funding threaten American biomedical research, public health, and economic stability. AAI stands in strong opposition and highlights the vital role of NIH in job creation, economic activity, and safeguarding lives. 🔗 ow.ly/ww5h50W2zEs
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Statement from AAI President Stephen C. Jameson on Proposed NIH Funding Cuts  - AAI News
AAI is deeply alarmed by the President’s proposal to drastically downsize the NIH by slashing its approximately $47 billion budget in fiscal year (FY) 2025 to just $28 billion in FY 2026.
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Now in #Science #Immunology: Philips, O'Shea, &al. made mice w human pathogenic #STAT1 activating mutation. Mice had #IFNg -dependent #autoimmunity, but their innatelike lymphocytes produced suboptimal IFNg during viral infection. Exogenous IFNg🚫virus-induced lethality, suggesting possible therapy!
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An activating Stat1 mutant disrupts normal STAT4 innate lymphocyte programs during viral infection
Stat1 gain-of-function mice fail to resolve inflammation in viral infection because of insufficient early STAT4–IFN-γ responses.
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Burroughs Wellcome Fund @bwfund.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
From Nature Communications - Aneuploidy confers a unique transcriptional and phenotypic profile to Candida albicans www.nature.com/articles/s41... #bwfpath
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Aneuploidy confers a unique transcriptional and phenotypic profile to Candida albicans - Nature Communications
Mackey et al report the transcriptional signature and phenotypic features of aneuploid Candida albicans strains which impact infection and susceptibility to environmental stimuli.
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Daniel Ibrahim @danielibrahim.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
How to find Evolutionary Conserved Enhancers in 2025? 🐣-🐭 Check out our paper - fresh off the press!!! We find widespread functional conservation of enhancers in absence of sequence homology Including: a bioinformatic tool to map sequence-diverged enhancers! rdcu.be/enVDN github.com/tobiaszehnde...
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Conservation of regulatory elements with highly diverged sequences across large evolutionary distances
Nature Genetics - Combining functional genomic data from mouse and chicken with a synteny-based strategy identifies positionally conserved cis-regulatory elements in the absence of direct sequence...
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Adriana Forero @adforu.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Deeply grateful to be selected for this honor! Huge thanks to the BWF for continuing to support early-career scientists, my colleagues at @osuwexmed.bsky.social, and Forero Lab trainees who laid the groundwork for the path ahead. #TeamMII
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Adriana Forero @adforu.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
TRIMmunity!
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Andy Pekosz @andrewpekosz.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
A massive loss to the virology community. Ann was an amazing scientist and mentor, whose service to UW and the virology community in general will be sorely missed. www.cressfuneralservice.com/obituaries/a...
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Ann Carol Palmenberg, Ph.D Obituary February 20, 2025 - Cress Funeral and Cremation Services
View Ann Carol Palmenberg, Ph.D's obituary, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.
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Adriana Forero @adforu.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Yay!!
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a mascot for the ohio state football team is on the field
ALT: a mascot for the ohio state football team is on the field
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A. Phillip West @westlabmito.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Congrats to Omkar Shinde and Pingwei Li for resolving the cryo-EM structures of free and cGAMP-bound ABCC1. This paper follows on the great work from Dan Stetson's lab revealing ABCC1 as a cGAMP exporter. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Structures of ATP-binding cassette transporter ABCC1 reveal the molecular basis of cyclic dinucleotide cGAMP export
Cyclic nucleotide GMP-AMP (cGAMP) plays a critical role in mediating the innate immune response through the cyclic GMP-AMP synthase (cGAS)-stimulator …
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International Cytokine & Interferon Society (ICIS) @cytokinesociety.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Mark your calendars Cytokines 2025 Westin Seattle! Abstract submission is opening soon. Make sure to note these important deadlines: -Abstract Submission deadline: Wednesday 18 June -Early-Bird Registration Deadline: Friday 25 July Group room rate $236 seattle.cytokinesociety.org for more details
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Nandan Gokhale @nandangokhale.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Our work on cellular RNA interactions with MAVS that promote antiviral signaling is finally live. So grateful to our indispensable collaborators as well as reviewers who helped to strengthen our work. #RNA #innateimmunity #virology @ramlabuw.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Cellular RNA interacts with MAVS to promote antiviral signaling
Antiviral signaling downstream of RIG-I–like receptors (RLRs) proceeds through a multi-protein complex organized around the adaptor protein mitochondrial antiviral signaling protein (MAVS). Protein co...
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Inflammasome Lab @inflammasomelab.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Now online - research briefing from @inflammasomelab.bsky.social Mercedes Monteleone on our recent @natimmunol.bsky.social publication on how pyroptotic cell corpses signal to dendritic cells from beyond the grave! #inflammasomes #pyroptosis #CellDeath #CLEC9A Link: rdcu.be/d30EL
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Pyroptotic corpses are flagged by filopodia to alert dendritic cells
Nature Immunology - Inflammasomes induce pyroptosis and, through poorly defined mechanisms, promote adaptive immune responses. High-resolution imaging of the explosive morphology of pyroptosis...
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Adriana Forero @adforu.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Just saw this on a quote: “We charge a 30 USD fee for for orders submitted via fax”. It made me feel old. Last time I faxed a document was in 2006.
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Ryan Langlois @langloislab.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Excited for my first bluesky post announcing TWO openings for tenure track positions in virology! I am chair of the search committee and with a new department head Mike Gale we are in an exciting building phase. Please share with anyone who might be interested: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/365...
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Adriana Forero @adforu.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Jake wishes y’all a dapper Holiday season!
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Ed Chuong @edchuong.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I’m excited to share our latest study led by @giuliapasquesi.bsky.social out today in @cellpress.bsky.social , uncovering a new way transposons have been repurposed for human interferon signaling! Read on for a thread on cryptic splice variants, decoy receptors, and viruses (1/N) 👇🧵 #TESky 🧪
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Regulation of human interferon signaling by transposon exonization
Transposable element exonization can yield functional protein isoforms as seen for primate-specific IFNAR2.
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Sarah Ross @sarahhross.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
From June '24: The transcription factor Mef2d augments type 2 immune responses during allergic lung inflammation, regulating differentiation of Th2 and ILC2 cells. buff.ly/3BdtFkS Work from @aydanszeto.bsky.social et al. #Immunology #ILC2s @science.org
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The EMBO Journal @embojournal.org · 09/12/2024
SNARE mimicry by the CD225 domain of IFITM3 enables regulation of homotypic late endosome fusion Alex Compton and colleagues www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Recent or ongoing respiratory inflammation in the lung regulates antiviral immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @sciimmunology.bsky.social @mayerbarber.bsky.social
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The inflammatory microenvironment of the lung at the time of infection governs innate control of SARS-CoV-2 replication
Recent or ongoing respiratory inflammation in the lung regulates antiviral immune responses to SARS-CoV-2.
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Adriana Forero @adforu.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Poll time: Do we look like Arthur or Minions? #dressforthejob @miqdadd.bsky.social @mattmcfa17.bsky.social
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