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Buck O’Flanagan

@buck-oflanagan.bsky.social
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5th year PhD student at the University of Minnesota’s Center for Immunology in the Masopust lab. NIH/NIAID F31 scientist investigating how Trm in secondary lymphoid organs orchestrate recall immune responses. scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&…

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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Intratumoral T cell activation kills tumors regardless of T cell specificity @natimmunol.nature.com @oliviacs.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Olivia C. Ghirardelli Smith @oliviacs.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Check out the case report we wrote on a fascinating case of teratoma in the testes. This case illustrates that pure mature teratomas occurring in postpubertal males cannot invariably be classified into the benign teratoma category. www.frontiersin.org/journals/onc...
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Frontiers | Case Report: Prepubertal-type testicular teratoma with local metastasis in a postpubertal patient
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Dan Kaplan @danhkaplan.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Why scratching makes a rash worse and a potential benefit to scratching--it reduced S. aureus on skin. Andrew Liu's paper from our lab is out now at #science #neuroimmune #immunology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Scratching promotes allergic inflammation and host defense via neurogenic mast cell activation
Itch is a dominant symptom in dermatitis, and scratching promotes cutaneous inflammation, thereby worsening disease. However, the mechanisms through which scratching exacerbates inflammation and wheth...
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Journal of Experimental Medicine @jem.org · 28/01/2025
New: Lee et al. @harvardmed.bsky.social provide a compendium of early transcriptional responses to major inflammatory #cytokines across all major immunocyte lineages of the mouse, highlighting unappreciated relationships btwn these cytokines and with other cytokine families buff.ly/4gn71Fg
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Maximilian Heeg @maximilian.heeg.io · 22/01/2025
Today in @nature.com. We mapped the spatial and temporal dynamics of intestinal tissue-resident memory CD8 T (TRM) cell differentiation. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41.... @ucsandiego.bsky.social @lji.org @alleninstitute.bsky.social @amonell.bsky.social @reinacampos.bsky.social @GoldrathLab 🧵 1/10
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Tissue-resident memory CD8 T cell diversity is spatiotemporally imprinted - Nature
Profiling of the location and transcriptome of tissue-resident memory CD8 T cell formation at single-transcript resolution finds regionalized signalling as the basis of immune diversity in t...
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Vineet Joag @vjoag.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Super excited to announce that the Joag Lab will officially open at @UW, @SCRI in March 2025! We will study the interplay between memory T cells and stromal, humoral, and innate immunity in mucosal tissues. researcherprofiles.seattlechildrens.org/Vineet.Joag. Hiring a technician and a postdoc!
Building Cure at the Seattle Children's Research Institute
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Journal of Experimental Medicine @jem.org · 22/01/2025
New: Amir Ferry, Ananda Goldrath and colleagues @ucsdhealthsci.bsky.social show that differentiation of tissue-resident memory T cells (TRM) is accompanied by the upregulation of the conventional DC1 (cDC1) chemoattractant, Xcl1. buff.ly/4hrKCYe #MucosalImmunology #TumorImmunology
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Daniel McManus, PhD @danmcmanus123.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Excited to share my PhD work from Rafi Ahmed’s lab, now published in @nature.com. We show how CD8 T cells overcome the inability to predict how long a viral infection will last by making adaptable precursor cells a priori—an elegant strategy for a non-prescient immune system! tinyurl.com/53nrpsa6
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
TCR signaling via NFATc1 constrains IL-15-induced NK-like activation of human memory CD8+ T cells doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Journal of Experimental Medicine @jem.org · 08/01/2025
New: Papadopoulos, Kipnis and colleagues present new findings on how lymphatic outflow pathways shape brain health, a critical frontier in brain-immune communication. buff.ly/40724ub
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Rod Rahimi @rodrahimi.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Elegant work by Jason Cyster's group "Our study demonstrates that the canonical chemoattractant receptor-ligand systems well-established for lymphocyte homeostatic trafficking to LNs are no longer the major contributors in the inflamed setting." #ImmunoSky
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Inflammation switches the chemoattractant requirements for naive lymphocyte entry into lymph nodes
Lymph node swelling is a well-known symptom of infection. A shift in the chemoattractant code controls lymphocyte recruitment from blood into inflamed lymph nodes, allowing lymphocytes to accumulate so that even rare antigen-specific cells can encounter their activating antigen.
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Tcellogic (Sue Kaech) @tcellogic.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Here is link to Shixin's new paper: www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
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Nutrient-driven histone code determines exhausted CD8+ T cell fates
ACLY-deficient CAR T cells targeting the tumor-associated antigen disialoganglioside GD2 (GD2 CAR T cells) also resisted acquiring TEX-like properties, exhibiting reduced CD39 expression when co-cultu...
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
The hypoimmune mouse (MHC-deletion, CD47 overexpression) and all of its organs are completely invisible to allogeneic immune cells www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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Nature Reviews Immunology @natrevimmunol.nature.com · 26/11/2024
The danger theory of immunity strikes back... rdcu.be/d1uQN
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Age-related decline in CD8+ tissue resident memory T cells compromises antitumor immunity www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Age-related decline in CD8+ tissue resident memory T cells compromises antitumor immunity - Nature Aging
Exploring how aging compromises antitumor immunity, the authors reveal an age-related impairment of cytotoxic CD8+ TRM cells in mouse tumor models and clinical samples. They implicate BFAR signaling a...
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Would you prefer to lead a lab alone or together with a science buddy? How interesting would be a research institute where joint labs are the standard?!
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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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Pallett Lab UCL @pallettlab.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
We’ve jumped on board fully here on 🦋 A starter pack of those working on our favourite cell … the T cell 🥰🙈🥰 If you want an add let us know go.bsky.app/8B5P25c
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Buck O’Flanagan @buck-oflanagan.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Retinoic acid and TGF-β – instructors at Trm university? Interesting stuff from Obers, Evrard, Mackay & al., who delve into environmental cues driving tissue-specific fate decisions of #Trm. Curious what other site-specific signals guide Trm differentiation in other tissues!
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Retinoic acid and TGF-β orchestrate organ-specific programs of tissue residency
Tissue-resident memory T (TRM) cells are integral to tissue immunity, persisting in diverse anatomical sites where they adhere to a common transcripti…
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Claire Olingy @claireolingy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Last month in #ScienceImmunology, Alex Chudnovskiy, @victora.bsky.social, & al. used proximity-based labeling in combination with single-cell transcriptomics to characterize antigen-presenting dendritic cells in tumors and their draining lymph nodes.
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Proximity-dependent labeling identifies dendritic cells that drive the tumor-specific CD4+ T cell response
This study characterizes the dendritic cells that present antigen to tumor-specific CD4+ T cells in the tumor and tumor-draining lymph node.
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The Kueh lab @kuehlab.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I made a starter pack for those of us interested in or working on T cells. Let me know if you would like to be added or know somebody that should be added. Looking forward to scientific discussions and updates on our favorite immune cell type!
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Anna Molofsky Lab @annamolofskylab.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
go.bsky.app/Eaua5Jk my starter for neuroimmunology
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Olivia C. Ghirardelli Smith @oliviacs.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Ever wondered what T cell immunosurveillance of 🐭 mammary ducts looks like? Check out our image featured on the cover of Science Immunology, showing CD103+ (pink) antiviral memory T cells (cyan) w/ in the ductal epithelium 🤩
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Buck O’Flanagan @buck-oflanagan.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
How does route of mRNA vaccination impact localization and abundance of memory T cells? shorturl.at/foBMY.
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Route of self-amplifying mRNA vaccination modulates the establishment of pulmonary resident memory CD8 and CD4 T cells
Intramuscular mRNA vaccination induces pulmonary resident memory T cells that can be further expanded with intranasal boosting.
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