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Rama Dhenni

@ramadhenni.bsky.social
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Immunobiologist at the Burnet Institute | PhD at Garvan Institute + UNSW Sydney Opinions are my own

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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Latent cytomegalovirus disrupts innate NK cell responses to P. falciparum and impairs parasite control in first infection in adults journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Tissue-resident CSF1R-dependent CD169+ macrophages localize deep in the skin & surround growing tumors to directly suppress their growth via MERTK-mediated phagocytosis @jem.org rupress.org/jem/article/... @labphan.bsky.social @garvaninstitute.bsky.social
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Class vs. ass:
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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Interesting talk from Dr @ramadhenni.bsky.social from @burnetinstitute.bsky.social about developing a human lymphoid organ model, as an efficient platform to study human malaria vaccine responses. 🧫💉 #lorneIandI
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Vγ1+ γδ T cells can initiate CD8+ T cell immunity to Plasmodium, with responses to some pathogens requiring help from innate-like T cells to pass an initiation threshold @natimmunol.nature.com nature.com/articles/s41...
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Pestilence @pestilence4all.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
The more you know. We are all chimeras at a very small level. You likely have cells in your body from your mother and your siblings that were born before you. How this chimerism influences your immune system is beginning to be unraveled. #Science #ScienceSunday
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Some of your cells are not genetically yours — what can they tell us about life and death?
A tiny population of cells that are passed across the placenta between mother and baby challenge basic tenets of human immunology.
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Steve Morgan @steveve.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Scientists recently combined the DNA of a cheetah with the DNA of a crab. Things went sideways real fast.
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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Well, you wouldn't want to disappoint Jane Goodall, would you? #RocketsUp!
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 19/08/2025
How to recognize shoddy studies that claim to link vaccines and autism. Essay by @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/3UUNrIp
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Opinion | The Playbook Used to ‘Prove’ Vaccines Cause Autism (Gift Article)
Data can easily be manipulated to show causation that doesn’t exist.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/08/2025
Netanyahu’s Gaza City outrage fulfils his messianic fantasy of a Greater Israel. The world must stop him | Nimer Sultany
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Netanyahu’s Gaza City outrage fulfils his messianic fantasy of a Greater Israel. The world must stop him | Nimer Sultany
This outrageous landgrab is ethnic cleansing in plain sight, says Nimer Sultany of Soas University of London, a Palestinian citizen of Israel
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Dr Elissa Deenick @elissadeenick.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The Precision Immunology and Immune Biotherapies Programs at the Garvan Institute are looking for new Faculty members. Come join us and work with amazing scientists in an amazing place @labphan.bsky.social @garvaninstitute.bsky.social www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Garvan Faculty Member - Sydney (LGA), New South Wales (AU) job with The Garvan Institute | 12841341
The Garvan Institute invites applicants for Faculty-level positions in the Immune Biotherapies and Precision Immunology Programs.
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IMAGE Lab @labphan.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Very excited at the chance to work with new people with new ideas in immunology! Really keen to hear from people from diverse backgrounds with different ways of thinking. International applicants seeking freedom to pursue BlueSky projects welcome. Come for the science. Stay for the vibe! #immunosky
Lab Big Day Out June 2025! On ferry to Manly on a cold winter's day!
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This is barbaric. It has been more than 60 days since Israel ordered a halt to all humanitarian aid entering Gaza — no food, fuel or even medicine. 91% of the population analyzed by the UN is estimated to be facing “food insecurity,” with most enduring “emergency” or “catastrophic” levels.
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Israel’s Total Blockade of Gaza Has Created ‘Catastrophic’ Conditions, Doctors Say
The effect of Israel’s total siege has become “catastrophic,” doctors say. Food, water and medicine shortages are prompting a surge of preventable illnesses, and deaths.
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Kamila Marzec @drkamilamarzec.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Learn about your body's very own "immune cell school" and why it matters which arm you get your booster vaccine in. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... @garvaninstitute.bsky.social @labphan.bsky.social @ramadhenni.bsky.social
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This could change the arm you get vaccinated - ABC listen
When going to get vaccinated, you're often asked which arm you'd prefer to be jabbed.  Most people pick their least dominant arm so the pain from the injection site bothers them less.  A new finding...
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Cell - a Cell Press journal @cp-cell.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Now online! Macrophages direct location-dependent recall of B cell memory to vaccination
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Macrophages direct location-dependent recall of B cell memory to vaccination
Subcapsular sinus macrophages in the draining lymph node help retain resident memory B cells in the subcapsular niche and promote their re-entry into secondary germinal centers. Boosting vaccines in the same arm leads to more rapid secretion of broadly neutralizing antibodies.
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Garvan Institute @garvaninstitute.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Why does the arm you choose for a vaccine matter? 🩹 New research from Garvan and the Kirby Institute shows that receiving a booster in the same arm as the initial dose can lead to a quicker, stronger immune response. ow.ly/HbA150VJmWl
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Ivan Zanoni @lozanzi.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
#LocationLocationLocation! @labphan.bsky.social @ramadhenni.bsky.social Hoppé &co show @cp-cell.bsky.social that subcapsular sinus macrophages interact with memory B cells, positioning them in a subcapsular niche that favors their rientry in germinal centers & more rapid antibody responses!
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Macrophages direct location-dependent recall of B cell memory to vaccination
Vaccines generate long-lived plasma cells and memory B cells (Bmems) that may re-enter secondary germinal centers (GCs) to further mutate their B cell…
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Macrophages direct location-dependent recall of B cell memory to vaccination @cellcellpress.bsky.social @ramadhenni.bsky.social @immunodealex.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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IMAGE Lab @labphan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Happy #DayofImmunology! Congrats @ramadhenni.bsky.social & Alexandra Carey Hoppé it's out (finally!) @cp-cell.bsky.social! Incredibly grateful to co-leads @mlmunier.bsky.social, Vanessa Venturi & Tony Kelleher & all brilliant folks @garvaninstitute.bsky.social & Kirby Inst. for fantastic collab! 🧵
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Macrophages direct location-dependent recall of B cell memory to vaccination
Vaccines generate long-lived plasma cells and memory B cells (Bmems) that may re-enter secondary germinal centers (GCs) to further mutate their B cell…
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Kamila Marzec @drkamilamarzec.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Check out this brilliant work coming out of our #PrecisionImmunologyProgram! Published in Cell today on the International Day of Immunology 🎉 @labphan.bsky.social @ramadhenni.bsky.social
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Meghan Bartels @meghanbartels.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
"On Wednesday, just days before her wedding, 25-year-old Hassouna was killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit her home in northern Gaza. Ten members of her family, including her pregnant sister, were also killed." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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‘If I die, I want a loud death’: Gaza photojournalist killed by Israeli airstrike
Fatima Hassouna, who had been documenting war in Gaza for 18 months and was subject of new documentary, killed along with 10 members of her family
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/04/2025
As health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the agencies he leads have taken far-reaching steps to undermine confidence in vaccine efficacy and safety.
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The Many Ways Kennedy Is Already Undermining Vaccines
The health secretary has chipped away at the idea that immunizing children against measles and other diseases is a public health good.
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Chevron made 8bn profit off Australian gas last year- $17bn in the last 3y. In that time it’s paid $0 in petroleum resources rent tax. We let multinationals sell our gas overseas for free while we struggle with a cost-of-living crisis. I’ll keep pushing for fair tax reform.
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Chevron reveals massive profit from Aussie gas operations
Australia is still delivering for Chevron despite the company’s concerns about the country’s investment credentials, powering the gas giant to an $8 billion profit last year.
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Daniel Mucida @danmucida.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
this is what genocide looks like www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
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Video: Renewed Israeli Strikes Deepen Gaza’s Displacement Crisis
The United Nations estimates that 280,000 Gazans have been displaced since the collapse of the temporary truce between Hamas and Israel on March 18. The New York Times examined one strike that destroy...
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IMAGE Lab @labphan.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Excited to offer 2 fully funded PhD projects with Peter Croucher @garvaninstitute.bsky.social using intravital microscopy to track osteoclast/osteomorphs dynamics using novel mitochondrial reporters. Domestic & int'l students from diverse bkg welcome! Please share! www.unsw.edu.au/research/hdr...
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Tracking the origin and fate of osteomorphs
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IMAGE Lab @labphan.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
B CELL FUN FACT: Secrets of the GC #2 There are 300 billion B cells with total mass of 60g in the human body. That is 3 times the number of stars in the Milky Way! Naïve B cell express >10 million unique antibodies to protect us from this universe of possible antigens! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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The total mass, number, and distribution of immune cells in the human body | PNAS
The immune system is a complex network of cells with critical functions in health and disease. However, a comprehensive census of the cells compris...
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