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Dr. Anjali Bhagirath

@anjalibhagirath.bsky.social
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Assist. Prof., Clinician-Scientist,Dalhousie Dent. www.mhdlab.org Host-pathogen interactions enthusiast. Figuring out how our bodies talk to bugs (spoiler: they do!!), one molecule at a time. #newPI #womeninSTEM #microbiology #Immunology #Dentistry

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Adrian Liston @labliston.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
We want to make sure that anyone who needs to read this book can, so if you can't buy the book you can now read for free online. Essential reading for scientists suffering a bout of self-doubt or imposter's syndrome heyzine.com/flip-book/a5...
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Vincent van Unen @vincentvanunen.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Tissue-embedded CD4+ plasticity defines mucosal immunity in inflammatory bowel disease
CD4+ T helper (Th) cell responses to commensal microbiota are linked to Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), yet how Th programs coexist and evolve in hu…
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
“It’s just a microscopic water droplet surrounded by a fatty membrane and stuffed with chemicals and snippets of DNA encoding a mere 36 genes. But it’s also arguably the closest researchers have come to building a living cell from scratch.”🧪 My story in @science.org on a fascinating preprint:
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Lab-created ‘SpudCell’ marks ‘stunning’ step toward building life from scratch
A synthetic cell can now grow and divide—but it’s still far from alive
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Ivan Zanoni @lozanzi.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
#WeekendRead! #MomIsAlwaysMom! Fan Zheng Chen &co show @science.org that a maternal diet-derived fatty acid contained in breast milk potentiates Th1 responses in newborns protecting against bacteria & viruses throughout adulthood! doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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Maternal trans-vaccenic acid shapes neonatal T cell development and early-life immune imprinting
How maternal nutrition influences neonatal immune development and imprinting through breastfeeding remains largely unclear. We report that maternal supplementation with trans-vaccenic acid (TVA), the ...
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
A superb summary of why our investment in fundamental science fuels stunning advances in medical treatments 🧪
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Dr. Anjali Bhagirath @anjalibhagirath.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Bursting with pride 🥹💙🐻 My amazing student, Briley Hillyard, is presenting her research at #ERS2025 in the Netherlands! Watching her hard work and dedication shine on an international stage makes me feel like the proudest mama bear. 🧑‍🎓🌍✨ #ERSCongress #ERSCongress2025 #cysticfibrosis #proudPI #CF
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McManusLab @kirkmcmanuslab.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
🚀 Exciting MSc opp @ UManitoba! Join 2 interdisciplinary labs (bioinformatics + cancer bio) on a CIHR-funded ovarian cancer project. Gain hands-on training in single-cell genomics & molecular biology. See advertisement to apply #GradResearch #Cancer
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
We have developed a new workflow to map whole human organs at single-cell resolution, while integrating spatial transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics. We applied this workflow to map precancerous lesions of the fallopian tubes. More here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Dalhousie Faculty Association @dalfaculty.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Thank you @smufu.bsky.social for your unwavering support!!!
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Dalhousie Faculty Association @dalfaculty.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Fantastic news! When students mobilize, great things happen! #KeepDalStrong
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Dalhousie Faculty Association @dalfaculty.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
1000 faculty members have been locked out of @dalhousieu.bsky.social since Aug 18. That means 90% of classes WILL NOT start next week. The Board of Governors needs to come back to the table and stop playing with the future of our students. #keepdalstrong
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Dalhousie Faculty Association @dalfaculty.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
2nd DFA Lockout Rally - This is happening RIGHT NOW! Game on and #keepdalstrong - 6225 University Ave, Halifax - Outside Killam Library
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Dalhousie Faculty Association @dalfaculty.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
DFA President explains the past 24 hours and urges the @dalhousieu.bsky.social board to negotiate rather than dictate. Talk to us at the table ti #keepdalstrong @ansut.bsky.social @cupe3912.bsky.social @caut.bsky.social
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Dalhousie Faculty Association @dalfaculty.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Join us this Friday in front of the @dalhousieu.bsky.social Killam Library for our rally! Students are arriving this week, let's stand together and show them that we care about saving their Fall term from this reckless Board behaviour! #Keepdalstrong @ansut.bsky.social @caut.bsky.social
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Dalhousie Faculty Association @dalfaculty.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
DFA members in Saint John standing strong against the poor offer from @dalhousieu.bsky.social - time to get back to the table and get on with fall term! #keepdalstrong
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Dalhousie Faculty Association @dalfaculty.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Patti Doyle-Bedwell is on DFA’s Bargaining Team. She urges the @dalhousieu.bsky.social Board to come back to the table- we are now on day 7 of complete silence from the Board. Time to talk, don’t you think? #keepdalstrong @ansut.bsky.social @caut.bsky.social
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Dalhousie Faculty Association @dalfaculty.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Naiomi Metallic talks about how her students will miss an opportunity to learn some foundational info re: indigenous law the longer this lockout continues. @dalhousieu.bsky.social, come back to bargain and help us to #keepdalstrong @caut.bsky.social @ansut.bsky.social
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Dalhousie Faculty Association @dalfaculty.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Faculty are concerned about the impact this lockout @dalhousieu.bsky.social is having on students and the fall term. Admin, let’s get back to bargaining and #keepdalstrong @ansut.bsky.social @caut.bsky.social
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Dalhousie Faculty Association @dalfaculty.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Faculty locked out Aug 20. We have heard nothing from @dalhousieu.bsky.social - we WANT to BARGAIN, our members WANT to WORK! Where is the Board? Students start move in Aug 28. Time for the Board to take this seriously and work with us #KeepDalStrong
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Dalhousie Faculty Association @dalfaculty.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Happening NOW #keepdalstrong - 6225 University Ave, Halifax - in front of Killam Library @ansut.bsky.social
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Dalhousie Faculty Association @dalfaculty.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
#keepdalstrong DFA 1st lockout rally kicks off NOW. 6225 University Ave, Halifax - in front off Killam Library
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Dalhousie Faculty Association @dalfaculty.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
All welcome to join DFA's 1st rally in 23 years! In front of the Killam Library, Friday August 22 at 12 noon, half an hour only. See you there! Help us to #KeepDalStrong @ansut.bsky.social @caut.bsky.social @cupe3912.bsky.social @nsgeu.bsky.social
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Wnt signaling--still at the heart of EVERYTHING!
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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
🥁NEW publication from our lab: the largest meta-analysis of gut microbiome associations with CRC! www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵⬇️ 1/6
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Pooled analysis of 3,741 stool metagenomes from 18 cohorts for cross-stage and strain-level reproducible microbial biomarkers of colorectal cancer - Nature Medicine
An analysis of 18 metagenomic datasets of individuals with colorectal cancer, adenomas and healthy controls yields improved cancer prediction accuracy based solely on gut metagenomics, as well as the ...
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 28/05/2025
Here are my top 10 graduation dogs!
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Freya Harrison @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Why should microbiologists working on #CysticFibrosis study Haemophilus influenzae? @phoebesilva.bsky.social explains all for @amiposts.bsky.social www.the-microbiologist.com/features/the... #MicroSky
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​The rise of the early cystic fibrosis lung coloniser, Haemophilus influenzae
With the increasing availability of modulator therapies for people with cystic fibrosis, end-stage infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa is becoming less common. But are we going to see a rise in the ...
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Dr. Anjali Bhagirath @anjalibhagirath.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Beautiful Vienna 🥰🥰❤️ #Europerio11 #Vienna #Europerio11vienna2025
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Freya Harrison @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
There are many types of eDNA in #biofilm matrices - including Z-DNA & G4 complexes that are key for mechanical stability, don't get degraded by DNaseI and can't be seen with typical DNA dyes. Absolutely storming talk from Rikke Meyer at #Biofilms11 #MIcroSky (Image: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...)
Microscopy images using different coloured labels to show a diversity of B-DNA, Z-DNA and G4 complexes in a bacterial biofilm.
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Sheila Macrine, PhD @macrinephd.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Scientists created "neurobots" - biobots with integrated neural tissue! These autonomous, self-powered, novel life forms show complex movements and more! 🤖🧠🔬 #Biobots #Neuroscience #Robotics #Xenopus #NeuralDevelopment @drmichaellevin.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Self-Organizing Neural Networks in Novel Moving Bodies: Anatomical, Behavioral, and Transcriptional Characterization of a Living Construct with a Nervous System
A great deal is known about the formation and architecture of biological neural networks in animal models, which have arrived at their current structure-function relationship through evolution by natu...
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Jen L, PhD @drjkyl.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The mechanisms of HER2 targeted ADCs are dependent on Rab GTPases - Apr 24, 2025 @journals.sagepub.com @tamedoncol.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #personalizedmedicine #breastcancer #oncsky #oncology #openaccess
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Dr. Anjali Bhagirath @anjalibhagirath.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
#mylove #myheart #myeverything #mybabies #blessing I’d go to war for you..easy
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Dr. Anjali Bhagirath @anjalibhagirath.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
#Friday #mood
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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Unveiling the role of phages in shaping the periodontal microbial ecosystem -in #mSystems journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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Unveiling the role of phages in shaping the periodontal microbial ecosystem | mSystems
In the context of periodontitis, the ecological dynamics of the microbiome are largely driven by interactions between bacteria and their phages. While the impact of prophages on regulating oral pathog...
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Dr. Anjali Bhagirath @anjalibhagirath.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The fundamental feature of a scientific system is not that its propositions are verifiable….but that its propositions are falsifiable… #science #thelawsofmedicine #discovery #ecrlife #research
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Dr. Anjali Bhagirath @anjalibhagirath.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
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Passage of the HIV capsid cracks the nuclear pore
Upon infection, human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) releases its cone-shaped capsid into the cytoplasm of infected T cells and macrophages. Th…
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Dr. Anjali Bhagirath @anjalibhagirath.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
As the year comes to a close.. This thought for anyone who needs it. #kindness #love #academicchatter #life #2024 #newpi #womeninstem #relationships #struggles #silence
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
WOW! "Subtomogram averaging Soluble and membrane-bound complexes ranging in size from >3 MDa to ~200 kDa, including 80S ribosomes, Rubisco, nucleosomes, microtubules, clathrin, photosystem II, and mitochondrial ATP synthase. The majority of these density maps reached sub-nanometer resolution..." 🧪
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Francesca Capon @francicapon.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
My first #job ad here! We are looking for a res assistant in #bioinformatics to analyse #single-cell and #spatial #transcriptomics data in #skin inflammation. Job based at King's College London, with opportunity to spend time at @ubcmedicine.bsky.social in beautiful Vancouver tinyurl.com/4xd9n5n7
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Research Assistant in Bioinformatics at King's College London
Recruiting now: Research Assistant in Bioinformatics on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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Dr. Anjali Bhagirath @anjalibhagirath.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
To not know self. The immunologically “self-less” mouse.. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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Dr. Anjali Bhagirath @anjalibhagirath.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Just got my first proper grant—the very first one I submitted as a new PI. Super grateful but, I was happy for all of about two minutes, and then the dread with a topping of Imposter syndrome? Does anyone else feel like this, or is it just me? #skeptic #newpi #womeninstem #life #ecr #academicchatter
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
A renewed reminder to anyone applying for a PhD or postdoc position in a lab--indicate your interest in the email/cover letter by talking a bit about that lab's work and why it would be a good fit. I answer any query that includes this information but do not answer those that do not.
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Paola A. Marignani @pmarignani.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
🌨️☕👩🏻‍💻 The differences in #lungcancer molecular profiles between nonsmokers & smokers highlight the importance of a discriminating approaches for screening. The authors present emerging data & implementation challenges for Low Dose CT (LDCT) screening in nonsmokers. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39258345/
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Lung cancer screening in never smokers - PubMed
With appropriate risk stratification, LDCT screening in never smokers may attain similar efficacy as compared to smokers. A global effort is needed to generate evidence surrounding optimal screening s...
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Phenomenally useful and interesting comparison of the timescale of different events inside cells! 🧪
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Dr. Anjali Bhagirath @anjalibhagirath.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
“We’re your team, not your judges..” ❤️👌👌
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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Spatially restricted immune and microbiota-driven adaptation of the gut - in #Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Spatially restricted immune and microbiota-driven adaptation of the gut - Nature
Intestinal regionalization is characterized by robust and resilient structural cell states and the intestine can adapt to environmental stress in a spatially controlled manner through crosstalk betwee...
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Dr. Anjali Bhagirath @anjalibhagirath.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Someone shared this.. Makes sense, doesn’t it? #life #academiclife #womeninstem #research #poetry #science #wisdom
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Dr. Anjali Bhagirath @anjalibhagirath.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Masha Niv @tastelabhuji.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Congratulations, Dr. Lior Peri! What a cool coincidence to receive the official notification of the Doctorate within a week from a publication of her paper "A bitter anti-inflammatory drug binds at two distinct sites of a human bitter taste GPCR" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Dr. Anjali Bhagirath @anjalibhagirath.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
There is immense stength in kindness #monday #peace #kindness #academiclife #womeninstem #gentleness #leadership
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