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Moamen Elmassry

@elmassry.bsky.social
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Postdoc in the Donia Lab at Princeton University

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Science Magazine @science.org · 21/09/2026
"I realized I would need to figure out my postdoc personality on my own." #NationalPostdocAppreciationWeek scim.ag/4yb15sK
An illustration of man sitting at desk with scroll rising up and reflecting himself back, with text: I wasn’t sure how to be a postdoc. Here’s how I found my way
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Kate Lagerstrom @kate-lagerstrom.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Really excited to see this piece out in The Microbiologist! 🐾🦠🌍 A look at how human activities are reshaping wildlife microbiomes—and when those changes may become a One Health concern. Thanks to @amiposts.bsky.social for the opportunity to contribute!
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Cameron Myhrvold @cambearon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Over the past 50 years, we have learned much about how transcription factors and other DNA-binding proteins search for their targets, but we know much less about how sequence-specific RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) search for their targets. 🧵⤵️ (1/26)
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Ai Ing Lim @aiinglim.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
LIMmunity 2nd brew: Motherhood comes with superpower: pathogen protection! 🤰🤱 www.nature.com/articles/s41... We often think moms are immunologically vulnerable during reproduction to tolerate the baby. But I always wondered: why would evolution make such a critical period of life so dangerous?
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Eosinophils drive intestinal remodelling and innate defence in reproduction - Nature
From pregnancy until lactation, eosinophils accumulate in the small intestine where they regulate goblet cell fate and enhance innate defences against enteric pathogens.
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Moamen Elmassry @elmassry.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Here is an important BLAST tip. TL;DR: Always search both Nucleotide collection (nt) AND RefSeq Genome (refseq_genomes) databases— don't rely on just one. I BLASTed ~10,000 nucleotide sequences (mostly gut microbiome-derived sequences) against both NCBI databases and here's what I found:
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National Microbiome Data Collaborative (NMDC) @microbiomedata.org · 17/04/2025
Check out the recent publication from NMDC Champion @elmassry.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...
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Moamen Elmassry @elmassry.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Excited to share our latest work on the gut microbiome in inflammatory bowel disease patients. This is the result of hard work across generations of trainees in the Donia Lab, in collaboration with amazing scientists (Nobuhiko Kamada and Lea Ann Chen). www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
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Moamen Elmassry @elmassry.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024...
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Why postdocs are demanding open bargaining
"Princeton’s resistance to the presence of observers is a break from many academic union negotiations. At Harvard, Weill Cornell, Mt Sinai, Columbia University, and the University of Washington, there...
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Jose V. Die @jdieramon.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Come join the workshop this Wednesday, the 27th, where I'll present #refseqR, a new R package for streamlined computational tasks on RefSeq entries (GenBank, NCBI). Don’t miss it! 🚀 #RStats #Bioinformatics Available from CRAN: cran.rstudio.com/web/packages...
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Lauren Palmer @laurenpalmer.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
SO EXCITED to share our recent work on dietary zinc deficiency worsening Acinetobacter baumannii pneumonia, out today with @natureportfolio.bsky.social!! Surprisingly, this is due at least in part to the allergic-type cytokine IL-13. SharedIt link: rdcu.be/d0h4h Eat your zinc rich foods! 🦪🫘🧀🥩🥜
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Dietary zinc deficiency promotes Acinetobacter baumannii lung infection via IL-13 in mice
Nature Microbiology - Increased IL-13 drives increased bacterial dissemination and mortality following Acinetobacter baumannii lung infection of zinc-deficient mice and can be countered by...
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