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Jason M. Schenkel

@jmschenkel.bsky.social
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T cell immunologist. Transfusion med doc. Assistant Professor in Lab Medicine, Immunology, and TMP @mdanderson.bsky.social

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Jason M. Schenkel @jmschenkel.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Frog immunology! This is frog-tastic.
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The Journal of Immunology @jimmunol.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
According to new data, frog mast cells are distinct from neutrophils and share many features associated with mammalian mast cells, such as degranulation and the release of immune proteins and lipid mediators. Read these evolutionary insights in The JI: ow.ly/eccV50YNBbO.
Xenopus laevis bone marrow and peritoneal precursor cells cultured with rSCF exhibit characteristic mast cell morphology and express a mast cell-specific protease. Mast cell cultures were generated from bone marrow (BMMCs) or peritoneal (PMCs) precursors and treated with rSCF. Neutrophils were derived from bone marrow precursors and treated with recombinant granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (rGCSF). (A) Giemsa staining of PMCs and BMMCs shows canonical mast cell morphology, distinct from cultured neutrophils, which have multilobed nuclei. (B) PMCs and BMMCs express the mast cell-specific CPA3, which was not detected in neutrophils. CPA3 messenger RNA was visualized by in situ hybridization using RNAscope. (C) PMCs and BMMCs contain intracellular heparin-positive granules, detected using Avidin-TxRed. Neutrophils lacked heparin staining. False coloring was applied to grayscale Giemsa cytology images (Fig. S1).
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Jason M. Schenkel @jmschenkel.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Are you interested in immunology and have a background in bioinformatics? Come work with my incredible collaborator, Dr. Kristen Pauken, at MD Anderson Cancer Center! See this linkedin post for more details or feel free to reach out! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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Postdoctoral Fellow - Immunology at MD Anderson | Kristen Pauken
The Pauken Lab is hiring! In the open postdoctoral fellow position, the Pauken laboratory is specifically recruiting applicants with extensive computational expertise to drive single cell transcripto...
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Jason M. Schenkel @jmschenkel.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Thrilled to be honored as one of the 2026 Young Physician Scientist Awards from the @the-asci.org! Looking forward to being back in my old stomping grounds in Chicago!!! @mdanderson.bsky.social
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Jason M. Schenkel @jmschenkel.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
I am grateful to have trained at such an incredible center during my graduate school years. Marc’s contributions at the helm of the CFI cannot be understated. Thank you Marc, for your service and leadership!
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Center for Immunology-UMN @cfi-umn.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
With deep gratitude, we thank Dr. Marc Jenkins for his decades of leadership, mentorship, and dedication to the Center for Immunology. The foundation he built will guide and inspire us for years to come.
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Jason M. Schenkel @jmschenkel.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Fantastic new paper looking at the extrinsic effects of PD-1 loss! Check it out.
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UT MD Anderson Cancer Center @mdanderson.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Congratulations to the 2025 Sabin Family Fellowship recipients, 10 early career researchers recognized for their bold, high-impact cancer research. Thank you to the Sabin Family Fellowship for supporting the next generation of innovators. spr.ly/633254IbgR #EndCancer
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MD Anderson announces 10th cohort of Andrew Sabin Family Fellows
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center today announced its 10th cohort of Andrew Sabin Family Fellows, comprised of 10 early career cancer researchers. Created to provide a dedicated source of funding for emerging clinician and scientist leaders, the Sabin Family Fellowship supports groundbreaking research that fuels MD Anderson’s mission to end cancer.
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Aria Vaishnavi, PhD @drariav.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I am thrilled to share that the first preprint from my lab is now available on bioRxiV! In this study, our team elucidates the role of autocrine ligands in the aberrant behavior of oncogene-driven lung cancer. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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BRAFV600E-Driven Lung Tumorigenesis Requires Ligand-Mediated Activation of ERBB Receptor Signaling
Secretion of ligands of the human epidermal growth factor (EGFR) family of receptors or erythroblastic leukemia viral oncogene family (ERBB1-4) is a feature common to many cancer cells. However, our u...
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Center for Immunology-UMN @cfi-umn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Kicking off our journey on BlueSky! We're excited to share updates and connect with you. Follow us and help us get the word out! For more information about the Center for Immunology, go to our website: immunology.umn.edu
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Center for Immunology
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Rachel Rutishauser @rrutishauser.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Excited to share this preprint: In trial led by @michaelpelusomd.bsky.social and Steve Deeks, combination immunotherapy=>high rate of HIV control (low VL) after ART pause. @demisandel.bsky.social in our lab found control associated with robust CD8+ T cell proliferation early in response to rebound.
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Different injection routes and fluorophores affect anti-CD45.2 antibody leukocyte labeling @jmschenkel.bsky.social @jimmunol.bsky.social @thenatcat.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jimm...
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Jason M. Schenkel @jmschenkel.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I am very grateful for the team we have and look forward to getting the next few of these out the door! We are not done yet! Though it may be a hot minute before the next one comes out. Hopefully pre-prints soon at least! Stay tuned! 11/end
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Jason M. Schenkel @jmschenkel.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
We believe these data will be food for thought for folks interested in using our in vivo labeling. And maybe just a fun read for folks who are lymphatic drainage enthusiasts. Big congrats to the lab for closing out our second paper! 10/n
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Jason M. Schenkel @jmschenkel.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
In short, BB700 was the big winner. It continuously labeled for over 6 hours in vivo (crazy right???). Applying it to a transplantable tumor model, we found we could identify roughly 7-fold more tumor specific CD8s that had recently migrated compared to IV administration. 9/n
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Jason M. Schenkel @jmschenkel.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Because antibody could be found in the plasma for a while, we speculated we could try and find fluorophores that were capable of labeling at low concentrations. This may provide an opportunity to extend the labeling window for rare events! So that’s what we did with serial dilution experiments. 8/n
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Jason M. Schenkel @jmschenkel.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
We next developed a homegrown ELISA to quantify circulating CD45.2 IV and IP antibodies. We saw that IP anti-CD45.2 concentration gradually increased over an hour, while IV disappeared. 7/n
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Jason M. Schenkel @jmschenkel.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Moreover, when we examined leukocyte labeling in blood contiguous compartments like the red pulp of the spleen, liver, and bone marrow, we found that IP antibody labeling intensity increased over the course of an hour, suggesting that labeling was continuously happening. 6/n
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Jason M. Schenkel @jmschenkel.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
We find that IP injection of anti-CD45.2 antibody does not label cells in the blood as quickly as an IV injection (duh, I know! But still!). IV injection labels all circulating cells within a minute. Whereas we do not get full labeling by IP injection for at least 10 minutes. 5/n
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Jason M. Schenkel @jmschenkel.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
There are a good number of studies looking at this, dating way back to the 40s and 50s. This one from the 80s is particularly well done in my opinion (academic.oup.com/jnci/article...). Don’t feel like reading? IP and IV are different! 4/n
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Biodistribution of Antibodies After Intraperitoneal or Intravenous Injection and Effect of Carbohydrate Modifications2
Abstract. These studies were designed to improve the strategy for intraperitoneal immunotherapy of human ovarian carcinoma with monoclonal antibodies (MAbs
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Jason M. Schenkel @jmschenkel.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Have you ever wondered about how injecting antibodies via intravenous (IV) or intraperitoneal (IP) injection differs? As a field, we often use IP injection for antibody treatments, and I have always found this to be interesting to think through how IP vs IV injectioun routes may be different. 3/n
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Jason M. Schenkel @jmschenkel.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
One of our big limitations was that it was hard to track rare migration events due to a limited labeling window. More on that in a second. 2/n
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Jason M. Schenkel @jmschenkel.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I am pleased to announce that our newest story is officially out at @jimmunol.bsky.social ! academic.oup.com/jimmunol/adv... This is an immediate follow up to the lab’s first paper from last year. We again thank @jimmunol.bsky.social for a smooth, efficient, and wonderfully fair review process. 1/n
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Wen Jiang MD, PhD @wenjiang-nano.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Our newest article is online @naturecancer.bsky.social A new antibody drug conjugate that doesn’t kill tumor cells but rely on immune system to eradicate cancer. @bettykimmdphd.bsky.social @mdanderson.bsky.social
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An antibody–toxin conjugate targeting CD47 linked to the bacterial toxin listeriolysin O for cancer immunotherapy
Nature Cancer - Schrank et al. report the design and characterization of an antibody–toxin conjugate targeting CD47, promoting anti-tumor immunity in preclinical cancer models.
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Jason M. Schenkel @jmschenkel.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Dorian McGavern at NIH had a paper last year using them - www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Venous-plexus-associated lymphoid hubs support meningeal humoral immunity - Nature
Dural-associated lymphoid tissues are lymphoid structures around vascular hubs in the dura mater that sample antigens and rapidly support humoral immune responses after local ...
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Mark Kaplan @statfourwork.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
My last editorial in @ImmunoHorizons the little @immunologyaai.bsky.social journal that could. In this commentary I discuss some of the challenges facing academia. academic.oup.com/immunohorizo...
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Give the grant-writing monkeys another banana
You’re probably familiar with the concept that if you had a million monkeys typing on a million computers for a million years, you would eventually get Sha
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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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Jason M. Schenkel @jmschenkel.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Keep your eyes peeled for #2 (jimmunol.bsky.social). And submitted our first big kid grants. Hoping for some kindness from reviewers... Very excited to see what things will look like in another year! What a whirlwind of a job - 2 years have flown by! Feeling both lucky and privileged.
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The Journal of Immunology (@jimmunol.bsky.social)
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Jason M. Schenkel @jmschenkel.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
39 rotations around the sun! And what a year it's been. The lab has doubled in size. We had our first (3!!!) graduate students and post docs join the lab. We had both our first and second lab papers EVER accepted - the first is out in print... so check it out -(journals.aai.org/jimmunol/art...).
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Longitudinal Intravascular Antibody Labeling Identified Regulatory T Cell Recruitment as a Therapeutic Target in a Mouse Model of Lung Cancer
Key Points. IV anti-CD45.2 label lasts for 3 days and tracks leukocyte migration to tissue.There is continuous innate and adaptive leukocyte migration in a
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Jason M. Schenkel @jmschenkel.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
See here for the zoom link registration - mdacc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Grant Spotlight Series - NIH K08. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
A panel discussion on the NIH K08 process featuring a reviewer and two awardees. Learn what reviewers look for and how applicants approached their submissions.
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Jason M. Schenkel @jmschenkel.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Attention physician scientists! Are you interested in applying for a K08? Of course you are! I will be part of a NIH broadcasted information session featuring myself and another K08 awardee, as well as a reviewer from a K08 study section in January. See the attached flyer! And please repost!
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Kat Mayer-Barber,PhD @mayerbarber.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Best #Nikolaus 🎅! Our paper on how the 🫁 microenvironment can shape #innate immunity against #viruses is out @sciimmunology.bsky.social This was a herculean effort brilliantly led by @pauljbaker.bsky.social who singlehandedly established the model in the lab during the pandemic. 🧪 #Immunosky 1/9
Graphical summary of our paper.  In mice, prior lower airway exposure to diverse inflammatory stimuli, including chronic bacterial infections such as M. tuberculosis, acute bacterial infections such as pulmonary S. aureus, viral infections such as Influenza A, type-II allergic responses such as the OVA-Alum model, activation of pulmonary TLR9 by CpG or pulmonary TLR1/2 by Pam3CSK4
 leads to reduced viral burden upon subsequent infection with SARS-CoV-2 (SCV2). (2) This SCV2 restriction occurs prior to induction of SCV2-specific adaptive immune responses 
and is mediated through innate immune responses, including the induction of IFN-I, TNFα and IL-1 and sustained changes to the TRM (Tissue resident macrophage) cellular 
compartment and the pulmonary epithelium. (3) Innate cytokine and TLR signaling to both recruited immune cells and the pulmonary epithelium creates a microenvironment in the 
lung that limits early replication of SCV2. IFN-I signaling to pulmonary ECs (epithelial cells) increases expression of interferon-stimulated genes, that likely cell-intrinsically limit viral
 replication. TNF- or IL-1 suppress SCV2 independently of IFN-I signaling. TNF acts exclusively through radio-resistant cell types such as the lung epithelium, whereas IL-1 affords 
control both direct and indirectly, through either stromal and hematopoietic cell types, to restrict overall early SCV2 burden.
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Jason M. Schenkel @jmschenkel.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Sing Sing Way at Cincinnati Children’s is a great scientist and collaborator!
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Padmanee (Pam) Sharma, MD, PhD @pamsharmamdphd.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
www.nature.com/articles/s41... Sharing our latest review article to highlight the importance of appropriately developing combination strategies for immune checkpoint therapy. Grateful for working with 3 brilliant scientists: Sangeeta Goswami, Kristen Pauken & Linghua Wang
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Next-generation combination approaches for immune checkpoint therapy - Nature Immunology
In this Review, Sharma and colleagues describe the current landscape of combination therapies and discuss requirements for the development of effective combination strategies.
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