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Jonathan Pruneda @jnpruneda.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Interested in microbiology, immunology, and host-pathogen interactions? Come work with us! Our department at OHSU is opening a search for a new tenure-track faculty position. See the job advertisement for details. Please share within your networks! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

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Faculty Position in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology - Portland, Oregon job with Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) - Molecular Microbiology and Immunology | 12858852

The Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at OHSU invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor position.

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OHSU-MMI @ohsummi.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology is looking to grow! We opened a position for an assistant or associate professor, please distribute ! facultycareers-ohsu.icims.com/jobs/39006/a...

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Bahareh Ajami Lab @baharehajami.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

#Hiring Staff Scientist: Seeking expertise in: Microglial biology, ALS (required), Neuroimmunology / single-cell / spatial approaches. iPSCs, CRISPER. Thrilled to share our lab has been awarded its first NIH R01 #NOA! Project: α5 integrin mechanisms in #ALS pathology.

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Ryan Langlois @langloislab.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Excited to announce that we have a new faculty search opening in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Minnesota for a tenure track Assistant Professor in RNA Virology. More info can be found here: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/365...

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Minimum qualifications:PhD, MD, or equivalent in a relevant field of study, plus applicable postdoctoral experience.

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Ryan Hernandez @rdhernand.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

There are unprecedented challenges for science, calling for bold action and collective effort. Training the next generation of scientific leaders has never been more important. Join us as we grow National PROPEL to answer this call. Learn more: propelscholars.org @propelscholars.bsky.social 🧪🧬🖥️🧵

Building a community of PROPEL-affiliated programs at UCSF, U. Utah, UCSC, MUSC, U. Iowa, UW/Fred Hutch, OHSU, and Stanford!

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OHSU-MMI @ohsummi.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Last week we had another amazing department retreat, expertly organized by @laurenrodda.bsky.social and @jnpruneda.bsky.social . Thank you to our fantastic invited speaker @harmitmalik.bsky.social and all the trainees for a day of wonderful science discussions.

A group foto of the MMI department at the 2025 retreat

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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social TGF-β triggers IFN-λ from intestine plasmacytoid DCs at homeostasis, contributing to tonic localized innate immune responses www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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NiceLab @nicelab.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Excited to share the most recent work from our lab! In which we seek out the cellular source of homeostatic IFNL in the gut and find that gut pDC are ‘rewired’ to produce IFNL over type I IFNs.

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Jonathan Pruneda @jnpruneda.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Come be my boss! We’re looking for a passionate and supportive leader for our Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology. Research in MMI spans diverse models and systems of host-pathogen interactions. Come join us in the beautiful Pacific NW! facultycareers-ohsu.icims.com/jobs/35624/c...

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International Cytokine & Interferon Society (ICIS) @cytokinesociety.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Abstract deadline extended to Monday, June 30! And travel grants are still available to student and post-doc members. Don't miss out - REPOST to share the info with others.

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Christin Herrmann @christinviral.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Excited to share with you my postdoctoral work published today in Nature Microbiology! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We have known for a while that stress can impact the outcome of infectious diseases; however, we reveal in our paper that it is not always detrimental.

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Environmental stress drives clearance of a persistent enteric virus in mice - Nature Microbiology

Cage change of mice with persistent murine astrovirus infection triggers stress responses marked by corticosterone fluctuation, which is followed by CD8 T cell activation and induction of epithelial a...

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Ram Savan @ramlabuw.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Cytokines 2025: Submit your abstract for an oral or poster presentation by June 30th! Student and post-doctoral travel grants are still available. Don’t miss out! seattle.cytokinesociety.org #Cytokines #Immunology #innate #adaptive #conferences #Seattle

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Julie Pfeiffer @jkpfeiff.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Valerie Rodriguez Irizarry’s tour de force paper on murine norovirus adaptation/egress is now out in peer-reviewed form ‪@plosbiology.org‬. It highlights the power of forward genetics in virology research. 🧵 1/10 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Drawing of a cell showing mitochondria in the cytoplasm, with murine norovirus virions exiting the cell through damage to the plasma membrane. Image credit: Valerie Rodriguez Irizarry

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OHSU-MMI @ohsummi.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

This cool study on compounds that can kill Plasmodium inside mosquitoes and can be applied to bed-nets was contributed to by the Riscoe lab at MMI!

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Cadwell Lab @cadwelllab.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Congratulations Xiaomin Yao and Eugene Rudensky for publishing this story @cp-immunity.bsky.social! Big thank you to NIH for making this work possible. Here’s a brief summary of this 🤯 finding about a gene variant that YOU 🫵 most likely have 1/n

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 24/04/2025

Norovirus tropism depends partly on entry receptors, but what is the role of cellular #lipids? @orchardlab.bsky.social &co show that TMEM30a-mediated lipid asymmetry is crucial for murine #norovirus infection, influencing membrane fluidity, viral binding & entry @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4409MtI

Left: Based on electron microscopic (EM) imagery, this three-dimensional (3D) illustration provides a graphical representation of a ingle norovirus virion, set against a beige background. The different colors represent different regions of the organism’s outer protein shell, or capsid (credit: Unsplash user CDC). Right: BV2 or BV2ΔTMEM30a cells were infected with MNVCR6-HiBiT at an MOI 0.5 in the presence of DMSO, 500 µM GCDCA, or 50 µM C2 ceramide. Sixteen hours post-infection cells were lysed and infection was measured using Nano-Glo HiBiT Lytic Detection System (Promega) post-lysis. Samples are normalized to BV2 cells treated with DMSO.

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Tera Levin @teralevin.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

💐 To NIH and NSF program officers, and anyone else trying to keep those institutions alive: Thank you for trying to do an impossible job in an impossible time. I’m sorry for all of us that this is the world we’re living in. 1/n

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International Cytokine & Interferon Society (ICIS) @cytokinesociety.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Co-Chairs, Michael Gale, Jr. and @ramlabuw.bsky.social invite abstract submissions for Cytokines2025. Topics include adaptive immunity, cytokine signaling, interferon stimulated genes, structure- function, and more. Submit: seattle.cytokinesociety.org/call-for-abs... Deadline is May 18, 2025.

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Cadwell Lab @cadwelllab.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Congratulations Ying-Han Chen and Kim Zaldana for showing how B cells are altered when lab mice 🐭 are released outdoors! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Here’s some context for the paper followed by how gov’t 💰 + other sources combine to make these types of studies possible 1/n

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Rewilding catalyzes maturation of the humoral immune system

Releasing laboratory mice into the natural environment enhanced maturation and activation of the humoral immune system.

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The American Association of Immunologists @aai.org · 05/03/2025

Today, immunologists nationwide are making their voices heard! Our AAI Public Policy Fellows are on Capitol Hill, advocating for critical research funding and policies. Join them by participating in our letter-writing campaign: ow.ly/QLvQ50VaY23. #PPFPHillDay #SciPol #Advocacy

A purple background with text "Join the Biomedical Research Community and Make Your Voice Heard on Capitol Hill!" in smaller capital letters "PROTECT FUNDING FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH!" and images of blood cells, the US Capitol, and lab equipment. "ACT NOW" button.

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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

NEW: In every way, shape, form, actions being taken say ‘don’t go into science,’ Donna Ginther told me as NIH forced to cancel programs to train future researchers. More than 1,000 students, including one who emailed 60 PIs, now scrambling to find positions. www.statnews.com/2025/03/05/t...

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Cancellation of NIH summer internships disrupts ‘vital’ training program for U.S. scientists

The NIH cancelled an internship program that gave more than 1,000 college students hands-on research training each summer

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Bella Rauch @rauchlab.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

@laurenrodda.bsky.social, @nicelab.bsky.social , @jnpruneda.bsky.social and I wrote an OpEd on the impacts of NIH cuts on Oregon: www.bizjournals.com/portland/new... It was signed by over 450 OHSU researchers! It’s unfortunately paywalled, DM me if you’d like a gift link or a pdf of it.

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Opinion: Scientists on how NIH cuts will hurt all Oregonians. - Portland Business Journal

"These cuts will cripple biomedical research and drug development in the U.S. We should be investing more in science, not less."

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Siyuan Ding @sding88.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

First post on Bluesky! Excited to share the first paper from our lab in 2025! cell.com/cell-host-mi.... Our study demonstrates that UV-inactivated replication-defective rotaviruses can cause diarrhea in neonatal mice, suggesting the host response also contributes to diarrhea to flush out the virus.

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Innate immune sensing of rotavirus by intestinal epithelial cells leads to diarrhea

Hou et al. demonstrate in an infant mouse model that innate immune sensing of enteric viruses induces IFN-λ signaling, which downregulates an apical chloride exchanger that leads to increased intestin...

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 01/03/2025

Today is Rare Disease Day, and a great reminder of the importance of NIH and science funding in driving hope 🧬⬇️ www.rarediseaseday.org

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Rare Disease Day 2025 – Raising awareness for people living with rare diseases and their families worldwide.

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International Cytokine & Interferon Society (ICIS) @cytokinesociety.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Mark your calendars Cytokines 2025 Westin Seattle! Abstract submission is opening soon. Make sure to note these important deadlines: -Abstract Submission deadline: Wednesday 18 June -Early-Bird Registration Deadline: Friday 25 July Group room rate $236 seattle.cytokinesociety.org for more details

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The restriction on Federal Register posts appear to be still in effect. This is blocking the (legal) scheduling of study sections and, soon, advisory council meetings. I have heard that some study section meetings that had been scheduled have been cancelled. 4/n

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ALT: a white cat is sitting on a box with the words `` why why '' written above it .

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Internal NIH guidance updated yesterday. Just canceling stuff each day from here on out I guess, pending new guidance. Killing science off both slowly and incredibly rapidly.

Effective February 10:

NIH Federal Advisory Committee meeting notices to the Office of the Federal Registare are now on hold. This affects NIH's ability to move forward with National Advisory Council/Board meetings that were previously noticed as having open and closed sessions and with Scientific Review Group (study sections and Special Emphasis Panels) meetings and Boards of Scientific Counselors that had not yet been noticed with a Federal Register Notice. As such, NIH will cancel those meetings on a day-by-day basis until additional guidance is received. Scientific Review Group meetings and Boards of Scientific Counselors that were previously noticed are moving forward.

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 17/02/2025

No new NIH study sections have been announced in the Federal Register since Jan 21. But I hear that colleagues have been asked to serve. Does your meeting appear in these announcements? If this applies to you, please check and reply here with info! www.federalregister.gov/documents/se...

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Document Search Results for 'center for scientific review'

Search, browse and learn about the Federal Register. Federal Register 2.0 is the unofficial daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as e...

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NiceLab @nicelab.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Homeostatic antiviral protection of the neonatal gut epithelium by interferon lambda: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports... Newborns lack immune memory to viral pathogens, so wouldn't it make sense to pre-emptively turn on antiviral defenses in barrier tissues such as the intestine at birth?

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Homeostatic antiviral protection of the neonatal gut epithelium by interferon lambda

Enteric viral infections are a major public health problem in newborns. Ramirez Reyes et al. find that the immature intestinal epithelium of newborn mice is developmentally programmed for the homeosta...

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Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Gentle reminder that if you truly value diversity in the workforce, top down executive orders may/will change implementation but it shouldn’t change your dedication to building the best possible team/group/cohort/generation of researchers

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Steve Munger @stevenmunger.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Want to see the numbers for how NIH funding impacts your state? Remind your Representatives, Senators, and fellow citizens how federally-funded biomedical research advances health, created jobs, and fosters innovation and economic growth. www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

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NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research

Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.

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Steeve Boulant @boulantlab.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Some months ago, I received the great news that my #NIH RO1 grant received a likely fundable score. With the NIH not being able to hold meetings and take decision, I found out that the council meeting is canceled (it was planned next week). 🧵/1

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Ilan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Scientific advancements aside, this is economically irresponsible Every $1 spent by NIH generates $2.46 For example, in 2023, $47B in NIH spending generated ~$93B Halting NIH spending will LOSE the US a lot of money (and talent)

An image of NIH campus. Text says : With annual budget of more than $47 billion, NIH is the largest single public funder of biomedical and behavioural research in the world. In fiscal year 2023, NIH funding generated an estimated $92.89 billion in economic activity

Every state and almost every congressional district received a share of NIH investment
Each year, NIH awards over 60,000 grants that directly support more than 300,000 researchers at more than 2,500 different institutions
In fiscal year 2023, every $1 of NIH funding generated approximately $2.46 of economic activity

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Dr. Deanna Santer @drdeannasanter.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

With recent 💰, we are recruiting a postdoctoral fellow & an #immunology PhD student to start this year! We have 1 summer undergrad position open too. Sadly, our university is not reviewing international student apps due to permit cuts. See here for the current team: sites.google.com/view/thesant...

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