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Miriam Herbert

@miherbert.bsky.social
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👩🏻‍🔬 Passionate about immunology, infection biology and the intersection of both. | SciLifeLab PULSE Postdoc, Mats Nilsson's Lab, Stockholm, Sweden| Spatial Host-Pathogen Interactions #IDSky #ImmunoSky

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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Cool study – #Mtb is notoriously slow growing, but inside macrophages, a subpopulation replicates fast and in doing so, actually evade #antibiotics better than the slow-growers - which is counter-intuitive (multiple theories discussed) #MicroSky #Tuberculosis #Tb www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Fast-growing intracellular Mycobacterium tuberculosis populations evade antibiotic treatment - Nature Communications
The slow growth displayed by Mycobacterium tuberculosis has been historically associated with pathogen’s persistence and drug tolerance. Unexpectedly, here the authors identify a rare subpopulation of...
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Miriam Herbert @miherbert.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Intriguing study on the pathogenicity of archae.
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Miriam Herbert @miherbert.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The beauty of the zebrafish model system 🥰
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Andreas Bäumler @abaumler.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Nominations for the 2027 New Voices in Infection and Immunity cohort are now open: asm.org/NewVoices-IA...
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Journal of Leukocyte Biology @jlbjournal.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Kristina Handler, Isabelle Arnold and colleagues @arnold-lab.bsky.social present "Guidelines for #SingleCell RNA sequencing analysis of #Eosinophils", which improves eosinophil recovery, annotation and biological interpretation
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Guidelines for single-cell RNA sequencing analysis of eosinophils
This study provides a practical framework for eosinophil-focused single-cell RNA-sequencing analysis that improves eosinophil recovery, annotation, and bio
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Daniel L. Barber, PhD @danbarberphd.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
So we blocked IFNγ in Mtb infected macaques and….the animals were fine. Turns out mice overestimate the importance of IFNγ in TB because IFNγ drives iNOS in mice but not macaques or humans. This means we don’t actually know how T cells suppress Mtb. rdcu.be/ff9GB #tuberculosis #immunology
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IFNγ blockade in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infected macaques alters the granuloma environment but not bacterial control
Nature Communications - Here, the authors show that IFNγ blockade does not impair resistance to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in macaques, opposed to what has been observed in mice, due...
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Prof Paula Salgado @pssalgado.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Hey #Microsky, time to celebrate your amazing female colleagues, students and mentors for #IWD2026! Nominate an inspiring woman whose research, teaching, innovation, or community leadership deserves recognition! @femsmicro.org crm.fems-microbiology.org/ssp/internat...
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International Women's Day: Nominate a woman in microbiology! | crm.fems-microbiology.org
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Infect-Net @infect-net.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
💡 Great concept by @frontiersin.bsky.social: An annual series by "Women in Infectious Agents and Disease". You can still apply to have your research featured in the 2025 edition! 👩‍🔬 What a smart way to increase the visibility and impact of #ScienceMadeByWomen! 💜 👉 www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
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Frontiers | Women in Infectious Agents and Disease: 2025
Please note that to be considered for this collection, the first author or at least one corresponding author should be a researcher who identifies as a woman...
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David Tobin @tobinlab.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Excited to share work led by the wonderful Gopi Viswanathan examining roles of granuloma neutrophils &defining bacterial transcriptional profiles within mycobacterial granulomas. Cool collab with Qingyun Liu at UNC for evolutionary analysis of granuloma-specific genes www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Granuloma dual RNA-seq reveals composite transcriptional programs driven by neutrophils and necrosis within tuberculous granulomas
Dual host-pathogen transcriptional profiling defines granuloma-specific programs during mycobacterial infection.
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Florian I. Schmidt lab @fischmidtlab.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Ever wondered how you can specifically inhibit #AIM2 #inflammasomes? @y-m-tesfamariam.bsky.social generated inhibitory AIM2 #nanobodies to ‬dissect inflammasome responses to #poxvirus infections in human #PrimaryCells @unibonn.bsky.social @immunosens.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Poxvirus dsDNA genomes differentially activate AIM2 or NLRP3 inflammasomes in human primary cells - The EMBO Journal
The innate immune system is known for its ability to recognize cytosolic DNA as evidence of infection, but detailed studies of this process have been mostly limited to mice and cell lines. To investig...
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Daniel L. Barber, PhD @danbarberphd.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Important paper by Björn Corleis. For decades a central tenet of #tuberculosis immunology has that IFNγ-driven iNOS expression in macrophages is the primary mechanism of bacterial control. Turns out this is really only in mice and maybe cattle. It’s not true in most species including humans an NHP.
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 12/01/2026
We need to talk about salaries in science www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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We need to talk about salaries in science
Academia too often has a ‘passion first, money second’ culture. Overcoming this mindset is crucial for building a happy career.
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Josh Mattila @joshmattila.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
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Tuberculosis: A surprising new hiding place for a dangerous pathogen
The bacterium that causes TB can hide in liver cells called hepatocytes, and reprogram their metabolism for its own benefit.
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Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de · 23/10/2025
📣 Open call for life science #interns Our International Summer #Internship 2026 is now open for applications. Three-months fully funded internships at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology. 👉 Information on the internship projects and how to apply: www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/mpiib-isi
Open call for 
life science interns

Three-month fully funded internships 
for bachelor‘s and master‘s students in the fields of biology, biochemistry, 
bioinformatics, epidemiology and any other related fields.
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Miriam Herbert @miherbert.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
And it's finally PhDone! 🥳 Yesterday, I defended my PhD thesis "Eosinophils play a dual role in the immune defense against mycobacteria". #PhDsky #ImmunoSky #IDSky #zebrafish
Miriam standing with a bouquet of flowers, a PhD hat and a really big smile next to her PhD advisor Mark Cronan.
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Is academic research becoming too competitive? @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Miriam Herbert @miherbert.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
What an interesting finding! Bio image analysis is so powerful 💥
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Dr. Liz Haynes 🐟🔬 @drlizhaynes.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Want to image the adult zebrafish brain? Here's a nifty design that I made with the help of a talented master's student, Corey Steinhauser. Supporting files here! morgridge.org/research/lab...
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A 3D-Printable device for non-invasive neuroimaging of adult zebrafish - Morgridge Institute for Research
Short Summary: This device is designed for use with an upright multiphoton microscope for neuroimaging of the adult and juvenile zebrafish. It allows for fast and reproducible mounting of fish
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Dr. Dawn Bowdish @msmacrophage.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Comparable data is hard to find, but when we looked at 2022/23 & 2023/24 data we see that deaths are still higher for COVID than influenza *BUT* looking at % hides the fact that COVID-19 is more contagious and in 23/24 there were almost 3x as many COVID hospitalizations than influenza. 4/n
Table 4 of manuscript comparing influenza and COVID hospitalization &  death rates
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Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de · 19/09/2025
📃 New paper alert! The Zychlinsky Lab and @raunser-lab.bsky.social identified the first protein that converts chromatin into an immune effector: Myeloperoxidase transforms chromatin into neutrophil extracellular traps. Now published in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Myeloperoxidase transforms chromatin into neutrophil extracellular traps - Nature
Myeloperoxidase, a highly expressed neutrophil protein, disassembles nucleosomes, facilitating neutrophil extracellular trap (NET) formation, and binds stably to NETs extracellularly.
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Laura White @laurakwhite.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I love every field's hyperspecific variant of this. (Molecular biology's is moving very small amounts of clear liquids from one tiny container to another.)
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 09/09/2025
Springboard for an international scientific career! 🧬🧪🔭⚛️🧠🌱 Call for #MaxPlanckResearchGroups launched; applications are possible until October 14, 2025 www.mpg.de/max-planck-r... #ScienceCareer
Call for Applications / Ausschreibung
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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
'Posts about research on Bluesky receive substantially more attention than similar posts on X, formerly called Twitter, according to the first large-scale analysis of science content on Bluesky. The results suggest that Bluesky users engage with posts more than do users of X.'
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Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement
Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.
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Stefan Oehlers @oehlerslab.org · 13/08/2025
and protection from TB back in the 90s! Given the wide use of Daraprim we would love to find someone on #IDsky with retrospective data to search of improvement of treatment outcome and prevention of TB diagnosis pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7742423/
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Dapsone/pyrimethamine may prevent mycobacterial disease in immunosuppressed patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus - PubMed
Dapsone exhibits activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) in vitro. We retrospectively examined the incidence of mycobacterial diseases within a randomized pro...
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Heather Bruce @arthropodlegs.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Anyone have a good method (clearing, etc) to get rid of autofluorescence across all channels in a squishy, mucus-y sample like an oyster, in order to do FISH/HCR on the bacteria that live in the mucus of the oyster? 🧪🦑🐙🔬
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 01/08/2025
Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.
Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships:
Expressions of interest can be submitted until 31 October 2025.
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Ed Belongia MD @belongia.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
New Danish cohort study with over 1 million kids confirms safety of aluminum in childhood vax. They looked at 50 different conditions, including autoimmune, allergic & neurodevelopmental (eg autism). This should end further debate on this topic (but probably won't). Annals Intern Med 15 July 2025
Abstract from research paper in Annals of Internal Med, July 15, 2025. Conclusion: "This nationwide cohort study did not find evidence supporting an increased risk for autoimmune, atopic or allergic, or neurodevelopmental disorders associated with early childhood exposure to aluminum-adsorbed vaccines..."
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Miriam Herbert @miherbert.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
It was a pleasure to connect with the broader eosinophil community again, this year in Montpellier! Met old and new friends and left with many new ideas. Thanks to all the organizers. 🤗 #IES2025
Screen showing a Swiss army knife and a plunger, a few people in the audience looking at the screen.The courtyard of the medical faculty of Montpellier (very old) all set for the welcome reception of IES2025.A mural on a house in the city center of Montpellier.Dinner tables set in white table cloths, ready for the awards dinner of IES2025. IES logo and  place (Montpellier, France) on a screen in the back of the room.
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Miriam Herbert @miherbert.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Real world example that humans are not mice - something we should always keep in mind when studying immunology in model systems. 😉
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Karolinska Institutet @ki.se · 25/06/2025
Applications are now open! We are recruiting 20 Assistant Professors in a wide range of subject areas. We're looking for early-career researchers with strong scientific merits and future potential. 🔗 All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...
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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 21/06/2025
🎶 Straight from the Lab to the Mic: when a Pasteur scientist turns her thesis into a rap 🎶 #FeteDeLaMusique
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Students who started their PhD in 2020 and are about to graduate
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Dora Čerina @doracerina.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
We're excited to share our new preprint on bioRxiv! ✨ You can view it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... See below for more information 👇
The main culprit behind urinary tract infections is a strain of E. coli known as UPEC. To survive in the body, UPEC has to evade our immune system, especially neutrophils, a type of immune cell that traps and kills bacteria using web-like structures called NETs.

In our study, we discovered a previously unknown two-gene system in UPEC that we named DanRI (Defense against neutrophil Regulator and Inhibitor). This system is turned on by NETs and helps the bacteria block neutrophil attacks. Without DanRI, UPEC struggles to survive and persist during infections.
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Andreas Peschel @andreaspeschel.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Join us in Tubingen as a Junior Research Group Leader if you do research on #ESKAPE pathogens and infections and are interested in the highly cooperative environment of @dzif.bsky.social‬ and @cmfi.bsky.social ! Please send your application or forward to colleagues! uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
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Miriam Herbert @miherbert.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Very cool study on how prior TB infections can be a risk factor for following infections! Check it out #IDSky #ImmunoSky #Microsky 🧫🧪
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 05/05/2025
"Science is an investment. We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world." — President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷
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Liz Ortiz de Ora @ortizdeora.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
We then brought Phollow into the gut of live zebrafish, taking advantage of their transparency and small size to visualize microbial communities across the entire intestine —capturing their dynamic interactions with the host in real time! pink = DNA, purple = actin, green = E. coli
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Same for ZFIN! @zfinmod.bsky.social put them in your papers' acknowledgements and cite them (Bradford et al. 2022 academic.oup.com/genetics/art...)
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Zebrafish information network, the knowledgebase for Danio rerio research
Abstract. The Zebrafish Information Network (zfin.org) is the central repository for Danio rerio genetic and genomic data. The Zebrafish Information Networ
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Miriam Herbert @miherbert.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Great opportunity for postdocs in almost any field of science. Check it out! 🧪👩‍🔬🔬🦠🧫
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Albert Vilella, PhD. @albertvilella.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I've seen this trend myself in the #Bioinformatics #Genomics #NGS community: a few still retweet on the other place, but most original posts are on #Bluesky
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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
CHECK IT 🦠UT: Exosomal siRNA delivery to inhibit bacterial gene translation Proof-of principle in MRSA, using siMecA to silence the mecA gene, resensitizing the pathogen to methicillin This RNA interference approach worked in the mouse model #GeneSilencing #AMR www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Miriam Herbert @miherbert.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Thank you @keystonesymposia.bsky.social for this opportunity. I have learned so much already and I am looking forward to the remaining talks and posted! #IDSky #TBSky #PhDSky 🧪🧫🧬👩‍🔬🦠
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Miriam Herbert @miherbert.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Very cool tool for spatiotemporal control of translation in zebrafish larva using light! 😲
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Miriam Herbert @miherbert.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
We went axe throwing with the lab the other day for a (late) celebration of our most recent paper. This made me realize I never posted about it on here 🦋 (only on the other side 😅) Apologies to everyone who has seen it there for the double post. A thread 🧵1/6 🧪
A group picture of people holding various axes and screaming like barbarians.
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 14/01/2025
We have a feeling you'll be interested in this one. Nature is keen to find out how scientists are using Bluesky and whether it has become their go-to social-media platform. Take the survey! 🧪
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Has Bluesky replaced X for scientists? Take Nature’s poll
The research community has flocked to the social-media platform Bluesky. Tell us about your experience.
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Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de · 20/12/2024
The IMPRS-IDI call 2025 closes in 2 weeks. Don't forget to apply for one of our 7 #PhD projects over the holidays 🎅. ⏰ The application deadline is January 3 Project descriptions and how to apply: www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/imprs-idi-call
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Miriam Herbert @miherbert.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Our graduate school is having another call including a project in the Cronan Lab - can highly recommend! 7 fully funded PhD projects in infection and immunity, application deadline January 3rd.
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Bryan Bryson @thebrysonlab.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
What is your favorite cytosolic pathogen that (a) infects macrophages and (b) is genetically tractable? Looking for someone who’d like to team up on a small but impactful project (we would do the heavy lifting!)
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Miriam Herbert @miherbert.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Love this tool. I found some interesting new follows. 😃
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Miriam Herbert @miherbert.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
This is a great #opportunity for international students interested in infection biology. Please share widely! 🧪🦠🧫🔬 #Scisky #ImmunoSky #MicroSky
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