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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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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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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.

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Miriam Herbert @miherbert.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Using our new tools, we validated eosinophil homing in homeostasis and inflammatory states like #Mycobacterium marinum-induced #granulomas. These tools open up exciting possibilities for exploring eosinophil functions in #inflammation, #infection, and beyond using the #zebrafish model. 🧪 🦠 4/6

Magenta colored structure with two "holes" representing a necrotic granuloma in M. marinum infected tissue with two necrotic cores. In yeelow: scattered presence of eosinophils within and around the granuloma. Scale bar 50 µm.

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Miriam Herbert @miherbert.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

🔬 We developed a new transgenic reporter line and polyclonal antibody to visualize #eosinophils and their #granules both in vivo and ex vivo. Our study reveals "eosinophil most abundant protein" (Embp) as a novel granule-specific marker in zebrafish eosinophils. #ImmunoSky 3/6

A round cell with a blue nucleus packed full of yellow-fluorescent granules. A transgenic Embp-tdTomato eosinophil from zebrafish. Scale bar 10 µm.

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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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