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Krist Antunes Fernandes

@kristantunes.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor in Medicine at PUCRS 🇧🇷, working on early life immunology. A geek. A French horn player. (She/her). Views are my own.

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Alex Eve @amjeve.uk · 25/07/2026
Immuno-nutritionist @kristantunes.bsky.social shows how symbiotic worm colonisation of mouse mums protects offspring from viral infection (eg flu) by transmitting antibodies and metabolism-boosting microbes in milk, which activate antiviral genes in barrier cells in the pup's lung. #2026SDB Paper⤵
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Maternal helminths rewire the microbiota to promote offspring antiviral immunity
Fernandes et al. show that maternal helminths, long-standing mammalian partners, confer antiviral immunity to offspring via the microbiota-derived metabolite indole-3-propionic acid (IPA). This work r...
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Krist Antunes Fernandes @kristantunes.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Looking forward to joining my fellow developmental biologists at this Special Interest Symposium! Excited to share our work on how maternal microbiota shapes offspring antiviral immunity. See you in Las Vegas! #SDB2026
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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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Krist Antunes Fernandes @kristantunes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Couldn’t be happier or more honored to have had the opportunity to work in such an amazing lab with such brilliant mentorship! Thank you @aiinglim.bsky.social for trusting me and for being the best mentor over the past three years. Don’t miss this cool story!! 👇🤱🪱
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Maternal helminths rewire the microbiota to promote offspring antiviral immunity @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-host-mi... @aiinglim.bsky.social @princeton.edu
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Krist Antunes Fernandes @kristantunes.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Excited to be speaking at #IMMUNOLOGY2025 in Hawaii 🌺🏝️ Join me Monday at 7:00 AM in the Block Symposium Regulation of Mucosal Immunity to learn more about Maternal Immune Education with a twist of microbiota. 😉 Let’s talk immunology over ☕️! See you there! #AAI2025
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Science Magazine @science.org · 07/03/2025
Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/41zlPv4
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Thousands gather across U.S. in Stand Up for Science events
Scientists rally across the country in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration
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